Senior Program Officer at World Vision Kenya

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification MBA/MSc/MA
• Experience 7 - 10 years
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied , Project and Program Management
• Find, prioritise and win funding opportunities with donors, UN agencies, climate funds and the private sector.
• Lead proposal development: concept notes, budgets, logframes and donor applications.
• Manage grants end-to-end: start-up, compliance, reporting, budgets and close-out.
• Design food security, livelihoods and agricultural enterprise programmes grounded in market realities.
• Provide technical advisory and quality assurance support to ensure effective programme implementation and sustainable results
• Build climate-resilient and adaptation approaches into programme and funding proposals.
• Develop partnerships with government, UN agencies, private sector and research institutions.
• Update the grant management database, creating opportunities and project profiles.
• Advanced degree in agriculture, agricultural economics, economics, business administration or development finance.
• 7–10 years' experience in business development, grants management or private-sector partnerships.
• A track record of winning funding and managing institutional or UN/WFP grants.
• Proven experience working with the private sector (agriculture, finance, etc).
• Technical knowledge of livelihoods, food systems, agriculture or livestock programming.
• Experience with resilience or climate-adaptation programme design.
• Strong financial literacy, and excellent writing, analysis and negotiation skills.
• Prior experience in Somalia or a similar fragile, climate-vulnerable context is an advantage.