Project Manager - Food & Nutrition Security (Kenyan Nationals Only)

About the role

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is hiring a Project Manager for its Food & Nutrition Security project in Kenya, open only to Kenyan nationals. The role manages, coordinates and monitors project activities and relationships with partners and stakeholders to reduce food insecurity and acute malnutrition among children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women, and to advance CRS's work serving the poor and vulnerable.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day GFD, Emergency Nutrition and FFA activities from start-up through implementation, monitoring, adaptation and close-out, coordinating them with the approved project 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 escalate delays, quality concerns and bottlenecks to project leadership.
• Integrate technical guidance with the Program Managers for Health, Nutrition and Social Services and Emergency Response, Markets and Livelihoods, and ensure activities comply with technical approaches, SOPs, government guidelines, CRS quality standards and donor requirements.
• Coordinate food assistance, nutrition, FFA, safe food handling, dietary diversity messaging, community engagement, accountability and participant targeting, and review food security, market, PDM and seasonal data to inform management decisions.
• 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, and work with the MEAL team to monitor outputs, outcomes and indicators, and to incorporate findings into work plans and documentation.
• Identify programmatic risks and safeguarding, protection, inclusion, accountability, environmental and social safeguards, and FCRM requirements, and escalate suspected fraud, diversion or safeguarding violations through CRS mechanisms.
• Represent the project in food security, nutrition and humanitarian forums, maintain relationships with NDMA, the Ministry of Health and County Steering Groups, and coordinate with World Vision Kenya and Caritas Marsabit.
• Supervise designated direct reports according to the approved organizational structure.