Regional Project Manager- Women@Work Campaign at Hivos East Africa

Specification

With long standing experience in development programmes and advocacy, Hivos’ East Africa Regional Hub is looking to fill the position of a Regional Project Manager for the Women@Work Campaign, situated within the Open domain. The Women@Work Campaign anchors Hivos’ substantive work on Corporate Accountability and Productive Labour. Founded in 2012, the Women@Work Campaign aims to contribute to decent work for women who earn their living through global production chains, most notably: flowers, fruits, vegetables and pulses, grown for the export market. The Campaign involves Southern partners spread over Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, enlisting local and international multi-sectoral partnerships. The Campaign has adopted a number of core strategies, including: promoting an effective social certification regime to influence value-chain practices; contributing to law and policy reform; building the capacities of workers and workers’ representatives; and, promoting engendered corporate social responsibility. This is supplemented by a consumer advocacy component in The Hague, The Netherlands, aimed at promoting ethical consumerism and proactive engagement with Northern governments as well as businesses.

Responsible for the implementation of the Women@Work Programme in the 5 programme countries listed above:

Provides technical direction, strategic advice and leadership on policy discussions and implementation in 5 EA Countries, ensuring timely and effective partner contracting, stakeholder management, reporting on results and learning as well as fund management. Coordinates the implementation and coherence of the programme:
steering the development and implementation of the partner portfolio in 5 countries;
developing advocacy strategies on program priorities: Corporate Social Responsibility, Access to Justice, Living Wage project, Leadership and workplace policies as well as social certification;

• Stakeholder management
• External representation of the W@W Campaign and overall management of partner relations:
  
  • Is the ambassador of the Women@Work Programme;
  • Promotes Hivos’s agenda in professional forums by sharing and profiling practice-based results and experiences and sets the quality standard either personally or by delegating this to programme staff, and proposes and delivers sustainable solutions.
• Responsible for programme management:
  
  • Financial management of the Women@Work Hub EA Team Develop programme budgets; oversee funds distribution to projects and support partners and staff in reporting on finances;
  • Oversee programme development, monitoring and evaluation developing results matrices and tracking and recording results;
  • Oversee programme reporting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with regard to annual planning and budget, annual reporting
  • Leading the Women@Work team at EA Hub
• Leads, motivates, trains, guides and inspires staff and enables effective teamwork, achieves objectives and works according to Hivos’s guiding principles:
  
  • Performance Management of W@W Hub EA staff Lead the performance planning, evaluation and appraisal processes as well as personal capacity development;
    Day to day oversight of Women@Work Campaign activities at Hub EA Lead the development of work-plans; quality assurance of the implementation of projects;
  • Convene monthly W@W team programme meetings; collect quarterly time writing documents and develop quarterly activity reports;
• Monitor performance of team members
• Communication
• Responsible for the Women@Work communication strategy:
  
  • Povide input and strategic guidance in the development of a project communication and media strategy;
  • Supervise the Roll out of Women@Work Communication and Media Strategy;
  • Contribute to the development and roll-out of the Media and Communications work-plan; provide Input for media and communication strategy as requested;
  • Authorize the development and dissemination or publication of Campaign publicity and media information and materials;
  • Supervise the development of linkages with partners for media work and publicity
• Women@Work Campaign Programme Development:
  
  • Participate in W@W Annual Planning Meeting and Annual Team Meeting
  • Explore fundraising strategies / input into proposal development for campaigns initiatives.
• Hub EA WE / Open Society Programme Development and Linkages:
  
  • Facilitate W@W team to link with Monthly Women Empowerment Team Meeting;
  • Facilitate W@W input into Quarterly Open Domain Thematic Meetings;
  • Coordinate the W@w input into the Annual Plan and the End Term Review;
  • Participate in relevant team meetings / events;
  • Undertake Joint Programme Development including actualization of the financial resilience action plan: Prepare ToRs for the team; Develop quarterly action plans/priorities; Develop a fundraising budget; an, Define relationship with GO on fundraising.
• Facilitate and convene W@W team meetings (both Global and EA):
  
  • Participate in Annual Partners Meetings for W@W Campaign;

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in Social Sciences or a relevant discipline.
• At least 7 years of relevant working experience and good knowledge of labour rights and/or gender protection programming and advocacy.
• Ability to lead and inspire multi-regional teams and partners with members drawn from a diverse range of nationalities, cultures and disciplines.
• Working experience and good knowledge and understanding of the labour sector in the region; the legal frameworks, substantive social issues in horticulture, corporate accountability, certification processes, and related, trends.
• Experience in fund mamangement, fundraising, programme development and high level advocacy.
• Ability to work under pressure, often with tight deadlines without compromising the quality of deliverables.
• Strong English language skills; both written and spoken.
• Willingness to travel from time to time.
• High level of personal integrity and accountability.