Mary’s Meals (MM) is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. We offer more than just a job; we offer the opportunity to support our global movement in a dynamic and inclusive environment with a real focus on personal development.
Mary’s Meals Kenya (MMK) operates an Early Childhood Development and a Primary School Feeding programme in Kenya. Some of our core values are, Confidence in the innate goodness of people, Respecting the dignity of every human being and family life and good stewardship of resources entrusted to us. In addition to these values, safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults is at the heart of how we work. We desire that all who are part of Mary’s Meals should embed these values, safeguarding and acceptable behaviours that include Simplicity, Service and Stewardship.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced candidates for the below post:
Programme Delivery Manager (1 Post)
We are delighted to be recruiting for a talented Programme Delivery Manager (PDM) to join our team in Lodwar, Turkana County in Kenya.
Reporting to the Programme Delivery Lead, the PDM will provide strong technical oversight and leadership for the Programme Delivery function across Mary’s Meals school feeding programme in line with our School Feeding Delivery Model (SFDM). He/she is responsible for the implementation and management of the school feeding programme. You will contribute to continuous improvement and efficiency activities across our programme delivery, and support alignment to our MM School Feeding Approach (SFA), helping to ensure quality, stewardship, and simplicity across our programme.
Key duties amp; responsibilities for the role include:
Programmatic Excellence
- Support the Programme Delivery Lead in the implementation and adherence to the SFDM, policies, procedures and tools, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
- Plan and manage the end-to-end school feeding delivery and school feeding expansions activities
- Supervise School Feeding Managers (SFMs) to ensure effective running of the school feeding programme
- Support and develop community capacity building, sensitization, and engagement
- Ensure efficient and safe utilization of motorbikes, vehicles, and fuel
- Enhance wholesome collaboration with the School Feeding Managers to ensure effective high data quality management from data collection, review and drawing trends/conclusions to inform programme delivery and development decisions.
- Manage programme data collection and delivery monitoring
- With guidance from the Programme Delivery lead, proactively contribute to annual/periodic programmatic planning, risk management and reporting.
- Proactively identify issues, concerns, and trends arising from data and feedback from SFOs, SFMs and pass these to the relevant Programmes team member (Programme Quality Assurance Manager and/or Delivery Lead).
- Manage actions from ex-ternal audits conducted by MMI Risk amp; Assurance
Leadership and Team
- Actively attract, develop, and nurture talent among all school feeding managers in the programmes department to ensure high performing teams by enhancement of their capacity, attitudes, and competencies qin all engagements.
- Build a robust personal development review process through interactive one on one sessions with active identification of growth opportunities and succession planning.
- Enhance team confidence, cohesiveness, and motivation through clear communication of operational structures and defining key functions and areas of responsibilities in each role.
- Support the human resource, learning and development teams to actively identify capacity building gaps, opportunities and develop training methodologies.
- Develop a high-performing, resilient, and sustainable delivery team through constant coaching and mentoring
- Manage communication by ensuring that all staff, stakeholders (relevant government sectors), partners and other functions within MMK are adequately supplied with all communication regarding MMK’s programme delivery information in a timely fashion.
- Ensure tasks, work plans and schedules set by the Programme Delivery Lead and other programme team member are completed and updates communicated.
- Clearly communicate the Mary’s Meals Model and guiding principles to all stakeholders and ensure all issues / feedback are properly communicated to and from the school feeding manager, schools, communities, and other stakeholders.
- Build strong relations with the wider school