Program Manager – Livelihoods & MSME Growth (Urban Informal Settlements)

You won’t just manage programs, you’ll bring Nairobi’s informal settlements to life through micro-entrepreneurs’ stories. Tailors, street-food vendors, and mobile service providers rely on smart, evidence-backed interventions to grow sustainably. You’ll translate donor logframes into work plans that actually work in the field, de-risk cash transfers, and make sure partners deliver on promises. Think of it as a strategy with sneakers: weekly field immersions, boots-on-the-ground insight, and data that tells the real story.

Our client values calm decisiveness in complexity. You’ll coordinate training cohorts, mentorship schemes, and market-linkage pilots while keeping a keen eye on budgets, grants, and compliance. Field teams, community leaders, and sub-grantee organizations will all look to you for clear guidance, practical problem-solving, and dignified engagement.

The impact is tangible: from tracking income gains and verifying beneficiary outcomes to publishing quarterly MEL reports that actually influence decisions. Every coaching session, every verification visit, and every partner meeting is another opportunity to drive measurable change.

If you thrive where strategy, fieldwork, and people converge and enjoy turning big-picture frameworks into real-world results, this Program Manager role with our client is built for you.