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

Humanities & NGOs

K sh 240,000 – 380,000 gross / month

Openings: 1 Location: Nairobi – Lavington (James Gichuru Rd / Gitanga crescent) Overview: 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. Key Responsibilities: - Own work plans, budgets, procurement, and grant compliance. - Coordinate training cohorts, mentorship, and market-linkage pilots. - Oversee beneficiary targeting, verification, and grievance handling. - Chair partner review meetings; manage sub-grant agreements and reports. - Publish quarterly results with cost-per-outcome and learning notes. - Manage a field team (officers + enumerators); coach for performance. Education & Experience: - BA/MA in Development Studies, Economics, Sociology, or Public Policy; 6–8 yrs in NGO program leadership with urban livelihoods. Skills & Tools: - Results-based mgmt, budget control, partner management, MEL literacy, Excel/Power BI. KPIs: - Beneficiaries with sustained income gains, timely reports, audit findings closed, partner SLA adherence. Compensation (Kenya): KES 240,000–380,000 + annual performance bonus. Figures are estimates from our clients and vary with your experience, seniority, and interview performance. Benefits: - Medical, life cover, pension, field per diems, training/CPD, 24–26 leave days. Growth Path (hierarchy/expected promotions): Senior Program Manager → Portfolio Lead → Country Programs Director. This is the ideal hierarchy inside the client’s company and thus the expected growth cycle.