Task Team Leader - Business Development Services (NYOTA Project)

About the role

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is seeking a Task Team Leader (Programme Manager) to lead the Business Development Services (BDS) assignment under the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) Project, funded by the World Bank and implemented with the Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSEA). The project provides tailored entrepreneurship support to vulnerable youth, including refugee and host-community youth, in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kalobeyei Settlement (Turkana County) and Dadaab Refugee Complex (Garissa County). The BDS package includes socio-emotional and business skills training, mentorship, business networking and market linkages, adapted to the realities of refugee communities.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic, technical, operational and quality assurance leadership for the BDS assignment, ensuring delivery aligns with the approved project design, NRC policies, the MSEA Terms of Reference, contractual requirements and World Bank requirements.
• Coordinate engagement with project stakeholders, refugee-serving partners, private-sector actors and other relevant partners.
• Lead and oversee the BDS team across Turkana and Garissa, ensuring implementation meets agreed standards, timelines, targets and deliverables.
• Lead the development, review and monitoring of work plans and performance plans, and ensure they are regularly updated.
• Translate the MSEA Terms of Reference, the approved BDS package and contractual requirements into detailed implementation and activity plans, and adapt them to the socio-economic, cultural, gender, disability and displacement-related realities of refugee youth.

Required profile

• Master's degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, BDS, livelihoods or related programming.
• 5+ years managing entrepreneurship, BDS or livelihoods programmes, preferably in refugee, humanitarian or displacement settings.
• Proven experience managing multi-location programmes and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience designing inclusive, gender-responsive and disability-inclusive programmes for vulnerable and displaced populations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience with government, private sector, UN, NGOs and community structures.
• Experience in quality assurance, monitoring, reporting, learning and adaptive management.
• Knowledge of market systems, financial inclusion and youth entrepreneurship is an advantage; experience with World Bank-funded programmes and procurement is an advantage; experience in Kakuma, Kalobeyei and/or Dadaab is highly desirable.

What we offer

• Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya.
• Contract: 6 months, conditional recruitment awaiting funds approval.
• Salary: Grade 9 on NRC's national contract.