Project Officer – Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)

About the role

The Project Officer – ECCE will coordinate early childhood care and education interventions in Machakos County, Kenya. The role focuses on improving access, equity, and quality of services for children from conception to age 8, while providing technical guidance and ensuring timely delivery of project goals.

Key responsibilities

• Lead start‑up, implementation, and administration of the ECCE project, ensuring delivery on time, scope, budget, and donor regulations.
• Provide technical support for design and implementation of ECCE interventions and adapt tools and resources.
• Build capacity of the ICS team on early childhood development programming.
• Develop and present progress, process, and financial reports in line with organisational and donor requirements.
• Work with the MEAL team to implement an effective monitoring, evaluation and learning framework.
• Identify opportunities to share and disseminate project evaluation and research findings.
• Build and sustain relationships with government departments, technical partners, and coordination structures.
• Represent ICS at government, donor, partner, and relevant meetings.
• Support performance objective design and conduct appraisals for field staff.

Required profile

• 5–7 years of experience in early childhood development, education, maternal and child health, parenting, or community education.
• Strong understanding of global evidence and best practice in Early Childhood Development, including the Nurturing Care Framework and integrated ECDE approaches.
• Demonstrated experience operationalising ECCE, parenting, and child protection interventions within sub‑national government systems.

Required skills