Required Experience and Education

• Master’s degree in education, Early Childhood Development, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or related field.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in education programming within an international NGO or development agency.
• Proven track record in resource mobilization, proposal development, and donor relationship management.
• Experience managing multi-sectoral education projects, including ECD, literacy, teacher training, and child protection.

Primary Responsibilities

Program Strategy, Design & Implementation

• Lead the development of the ChildFund Country education strategy aligned with ChildFund’s global and country strategic plan priorities and other relevant country, regional and global education strategies, policies and frameworks.
• Contribute and participate in the development and review of country strategic plan and related country level strategies, policies, and frameworks.
• Lead integration of ECD strategies across all education interventions, ensuring compliance with national and global standards.
• Lead the design and implementation of evidence-based interventions for ECD, foundational learning, teacher training, social-emotional learning, digital literacy, and child protection projects and programs
• Offer technical guidance to implementing partners (IPs) and field teams on all levels of the education portfolio’s programming standards and best practices
• Collaborate with the International Office ECD Advisor to strengthen technical guidance, quality standards and reach and impact measures in ECD programming.
• Provide technical leadership in the development of tools, guidelines, and training materials for ECD, nurturing care, foundational learning, social-emotional learning, digital literacy, online safety, and child protection education programming.
• Integrate inclusive education, ECD and nurturing care approaches, addressing gender equity and the needs of children with disabilities.
• Develop high-quality proposals and concept notes for donor funding in collaboration with the Business Development team.
• Support the generation of education programming content for internal and external communications through writing briefs, blogs, and articles.

Technical Support & Oversight of Local Partners

• Provide ongoing technical assistance and capacity building to implementing partners, and other technical partners at county and national level.
• Support partners in all education programs’ related planning, budgeting, implementation, and reporting to ensure quality and compliance.
• Conduct regular field visits and technical reviews to monitor progress, identify challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
• Facilitate learning and knowledge exchange among partners to promote innovation and best practices in all education programming, including ECD and nurturing care
• Provide leadership in rolling-out of ChildFund’s global education strategy and nurturing care framework through technical guidance to country office and implementation partner technical staff.
• Ensure integration of safeguarding principles and Nurturing Care Framework across all education initiatives.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)

• Collaborate with the MEAL team to develop and apply robust frameworks for tracking education program outputs, outcomes, and impact.
• Support partners in data collection, analysis, and reporting, ensuring alignment with donor and organizational standards.
• Lead documentation of success stories, lessons learned, and evidence-based practices and facilitate internal and external learning and knowledge-sharing.
• Support research and evaluation activities to strengthen evidence-based programming.
• Ensure timely and high-quality reporting to donors, government, and ChildFund global offices.

Business Development & Grant Management

• Drive resource mobilization efforts for education programs, and ensuring a diversified and sustainable grant portfolio in ECD, Nurturing care and safe-online programs
• Identify funding opportunities and lead proposal development for education sector initiatives.
• Build and maintain relationships with donors, foundations, and development partners and lead negotiations and discussions for securing funding for education initiatives.
• Strengthen management of relationships and engagement with existing ECD and other education sector donors.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction in fostering donor relationships with support from the IO-level ECD Advisor.
• Ensure proactive communication and strong partnership with ECD-focused donors to secure funding and sustain program growth.
• Provide technical leadership in pre-positioning, capture planning, and proposal development for education grants.
• Support budget development, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting in collaboration with finance teams.
• Oversee education related grant implementation, ensuring timely delivery of results, financial accountability, and donor compliance.
• Monitor grant performance, budgets, and timelines to ensure successful delivery and reporting.
• Provide technical support to partners in managing education grants effectively.

Representation & Advocacy

• Represent ChildFund Kenya in national and regional technical working groups, CSO coalitions, and policy forums related to education, ECD, Child Protection and safe online.
• Foster strategic partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, research institutions, and private sector actors to advance education goals.
• Advocate for inclusive and sustainable education policies and practices at county and national levels.
• Build strategic partnerships with government agencies, private sector actors, and civil society organizations to enhance education program reach and sustainability.

Team Leadership & Capacity Building

• Supervise and mentor education sector program staff, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
• Organize and facilitate training workshops, webinars and mentorship for staff and partners on education-related topics.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration within ChildFund Kenya to integrate education into broader child protection and development programming.
• Support caregiver engagement and community advocacy for improved education outcomes.

Safeguarding.

• Remain alert and responsive to any safeguarding risks; acquire relevant knowledge and skills to enable understanding and application of the safeguarding policy and procedures;
• Promote strong safeguarding practices and perform his/her duty and responsibility to safeguard,
• Report violations, and promote appropriate behavior; and
• conduct self in a manner consistent with the organization’s policies and values.