Project Manager - Food & Nutrition Security

About the role

Catholic Relief Services is hiring a full-time, on-site Project Manager for its Food and Nutrition Security programme in Nairobi. The role manages, coordinates and monitors project activities and partnerships to reduce food insecurity and acute malnutrition among children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women, and to improve the impact of the project. It requires a degree in Nutrition, Agriculture, Development Studies, Project Management or a related field.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day GFD, Emergency Nutrition and FFA activities from start-up through implementation, monitoring, adaptation and close-out, keeping them sequenced and integrated with the approved design, calendar, budget and technical standards.
• Lead reviews of implementation plans, schedules, resource requirements and deliverables with technical, partner, MEAL, operations and field teams, and track agreed actions to completion.
• Escalate delays, quality concerns, bottlenecks, resource constraints and partner performance issues to project leadership.
• Integrate technical guidance with the Programme Managers for Health, Nutrition and Social Services and Emergency Response, Markets and Livelihoods, and ensure activities comply with technical approaches, SOPs, government guidelines, quality standards and donor requirements.
• Coordinate programme aspects such as targeting, scheduling, community engagement, distribution readiness, monitoring and post-distribution follow-up, working with technical and MEAL teams on transparent, needs-based targeting.
• Coordinate Emergency Nutrition implementation, including malnutrition screening, integrated outreaches, Family MUAC, supplementary CSB++ distribution and MIYCN-E messaging, and monitor nutrition plans and results.
• Coordinate FFA planning, monitoring and integration with food security and livelihoods partners, and support community asset identification, safeguards, work scheduling, monitoring, completion and handover.
• Lead the compilation and timely submission of donor reports.
• Act as a key coordination point for World Vision Kenya and Caritas Marsabit, facilitate partner reviews, coordinate technical support and capacity strengthening, and forecast procurement, transportation, staffing and field travel needs.
• Monitor expenditures against approved budgets with Finance and Operations, and lead MEAL, risk, compliance, safeguarding and accountability work, including tracking corrective actions and escalating suspected fraud, diversion or safeguarding violations.
• Represent the project in food security, nutrition and humanitarian forums and maintain relationships with national and county institutions such as NDMA and the Ministry of Health.