Technical Project Manager (Electrical Engineer) at Sheer Logic

Project Implementation

• Have impact (outcomes and goal) as the focus and ensure that all staff and partners are considering progress towards these Identify adjustments to the project in order to improve impact and agree these with senior staff and potentially donors.
• Ensure community engagement within the project and lead on specific community engagement and behavior change activities.
• Ensure project compliance with all Government and Donor
• Monitor the external and internal context and consider adjustments of the project
• Ensure activity plans are followed and monitor project expenditure against
• Ensure project procurement is aligned with the procurement policy and This will also include overseeing the installation of quality Renewable Energy Technologies in the selected facilities.
• Ensure that the project is gender sensitive and socially inclusive, to deliver transformative change for women, youth and the socially
• Lead on project risk management, flagging key issues to the senior leadership
• With the Global Technical Manager, efficiently coordinate and facilitate staff in all aspects of the provision of the planned renewable energy technologies (RETs)

Partnership Management and Stakeholder Coordination

• Represent our client at local and County level, building supportive relationships.
• Carry out due diligence to select partners required for the project, and lead on the contracting.
• Ensure partners and stakeholders understand and support the project, including during the project inception phase as well as throughout implementation.
• Review and provide feedback to partners on the quality of their narrative and financial reports.
• Ensure contracted partners understand the project requirements and are following them, delivering activities on-time and on-budget and follow donor requirements.
• Ensure partners follow required both procurement and health & safety procedures.
• Ensure partners receive training on safeguarding and fraud mitigation and comply with the
• Code of Conduct.
• Build the capacity of the partners in accordance with the partner capacity building plan.

Reporting and Project Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

• With the support of MEAL staff, ensure that all log frame indicators are regularly measured and results are used to consider adjustments needed to the project.
• Organize periodic project reviews with the community, stakeholders, and partners.
• Lead in the preparation and submission of timely project narrative and financial reports (quarterly, annual, mid-term and final) in internally and relevant donor standard formats.
• In collaboration with MEAL staff and partner staff, ensure evidence and learning is gathered and present this via impact papers and at external events.
• With the support of MEAL staff, set up and run a community feedback & response mechanism, adapting the project accordingly and giving a response to those raising issues.
• Ensure safeguarding of communities, by ensuring communities know what behaviour to expect from staff and how to report an incident.

Wider Programming Support

• Potentially contribute to the design of new projects by being involved in design processes as well as contributing new project ideas.
• Participate in meetings and events for staff across Kenya and globally.
• Contribute to business planning and tracking
• Depending on your technical / sectoral background, provide support to the Kenya team both for designing new projects and for effective implementation. And build relationships with relevant players (including private sector, NGOs and academic institutions).
• Represent our client in appropriate forums, including technical working groups.
• Represent client’s values in a professional, honest, transparent, and positive way to build
• reputation and brand as an organization committed to poverty reduction and collaboration.
• Have flexibility to respond to and be accountable for other business as it arises.

Qualification

• Have a bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• 5 years’ relevant experience including at least 3 years including significant hands-on experience of working with community-based projects around energy components
• Strong experience of procurement for technical items, especially RET.
• Experience of managing budgets, planning and overseeing activities and writing
• Experience of planning the incorporation of RET into projects, including
• Good understanding of Gender and Social Inclusion and how this relates to
• Experience of engaging external stakeholders and working with
• Proven experience in the usage of computer and office software packages (MS Office )
• Line management experience.
• Have some experience of project monitoring and