Sightsavers Careers

Responsibilities

Background:

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of preventable and treatable diseases that affect about 1.65 billion people around the world. The World Health Organization currently recognises 21 diseases as NTDs

NTDs cause immeasurable suffering. They debilitate, disfigure and can be fatal. By most commonly affecting some of the most vulnerable people in the world – who often live in remote communities – NTDs create cycles of poverty and cost developing nations billions of dollars every year.  Yet progress is possible, as of December 2024, 54 countries have eliminated at least one NTD

Uniting to Combat NTDs is a global advocacy organisation that exists to end NTDs by mobilising resources in support of the World Health Organization's NTD road map and the Sustainable Development Goals. We envision a world where no-one suffers from these preventable and treatable diseases.

Our target over the next five years is to mobilise resources towards achieving the WHO NTD road map from a range of sources, existing and new, including from donor governments, multi-lateral development banks, affected countries, and innovative financing. Our success will be measured by the volume of funding we are able to mobilise for countries and individuals affected by NTDs

Responsibilities:

We are looking for an experienced Communications Manager to be responsible for managing Uniting’s resource mobilisation communications in Africa and communications for Uniting’s channels including social media and newsletters. 

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and delivering the campaigns and communications strategy for Uniting’s resource mobilisation in Africa
• Providing support to the Director of Communications and Partnerships and the Senior Communications Manager
• Channel management, channel growth and improvements

This is an involved role, please read the full job description for further details

Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role, you will need experience/ knowledge of:

• Managing and/or project managing communications projects to deliver communications objectives.
• Knowledge of current trends, tools and best practise for communicating effectively, including digital strategies.
• Designing and implementing effective social media strategies, including organic and paid social.
• Creating compelling content to influence agenda outcomes and/or change behaviours.
• Using content management systems to update websites.
• Setting up and delivering newsletters.
• Using CRM systems.

Additionally, we are looking for an individual who can/ has:

• work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels of an organisation.
• work well with and manage competing priorities.
• produce digital content.
• excellent writing and presenting skills.
• an understanding, of and commitment to, equality of opportunity for people with disabilities.
• the ability to proofread.

As Programme Officer, you will take overall responsibility for coordinating the monitoring, implementation and coordination of activities to ensure a more equitable world.

Key duties of this role will include:

• Implementation support,
• Monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Coordinating partner organisations
• Financial management and reporting
• Information and communication management

Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role, you will need:

Essential

• Knowledge of project design and management, budget development and monitoring, resource management.
• Knowledge of advocacy, research, impact assessment, partnership development and resource mobilization.
• Experience of working with Government/ NGOs, within the rural context.
• Experience in working with the public-private partnerships, gender issues and policy environment desirable.
• Significant experience implementing projects, including experience of the disability sector and gender mainstreaming.
• experience in a relevant supervisory role.
• Experience in project monitoring, evaluation, and learning
• Experience providing technical assistance to other organizations.
• Knowledge of current issues and best practices in disability, UNCRPD, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and eye health is desirable
• Able and available for extensive travel nationally (40% of working time)

Desirable

• Experience of optometry, eye health and public health
• Experience of a role with safeguarding elements

About the role

• Sightsavers Kenya office is currently recruiting for a Programme Officer to support the Global Labour Programme and manage activities and relationships with key stakeholders. The Programme Officer will ensure the planning, coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the programme is held to the highest standards.

Responsibilities

A major part of this role will be delivering the programme, working with our coalition partners, preparing budgets and forecasts, and providing quality information on case studies relating to the programme.

As the Programme Officer you will:

• Work with the Chief of Party and all members of the Programme Management Unit to coordinate quality implementation of activities and timely sharing of lessons learned by consortium partners.
• Manage all aspects of the programme cycle with the partners including effective planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, financial and asset management, reporting and documentation.
• Liaise and work with the Sightsavers Global Technical Leads (Disability Inclusion, Gender Inclusion, Economic Empowerment and Social & Behavioural Change), MEL and other internal experts as required.
• Participate implementation of the programmes monitoring and evaluation framework.
• Build effective relationships with consortium partners and support longer-term relationships that go beyond the duration of the Global Labor Program by disseminating information and advocating for the programme’s goals and the consortium’s work in general.
• Monitor expenditure of project financial resources in liaison with the Finance Officer and the Programme Manager.
• Ensure that the GLP Project Management Unit receives appropriate materials and information to support donor-reporting requirements.
• Participate in all PR activities related to disability inclusive employment and employment in general, education and social inclusion, for example Labour Day, UN Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate you will have experience implementing programmes, including experience of the disability sector and gender mainstreaming. You will also have a background in agribusiness-based interventions working with relevant government departments/ministries, and experience in working with devolved County Government departments.

Further requirements include:

Essential

• Experience in providing technical assistance to partner organizations.
• Experience in designing and implementing data collection strategies and analysing data in MS Excel.
• Ability to travel to programme implementation sites in Nairobi, Kisumu, Migori and Homa Bay as required.
• Written and spoken English skills.

Desirable

• Previous experience of working for a USAID funded programme.
• Familiarity with national legislation and policies in the field of disability, human rights, and employment.
• Experience of designing, managing, and carrying out advocacy work for social inclusion/disability programmes.
• Knowledge of current issues and best practices in disability, UNCRPD, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Purpose

• The key purpose of this evaluation is to review and document the experience of implementation from the past two years to inform future strategic decision making.
• Sightsavers is seeking a consultant to conduct a comprehensive evaluation aimed at understanding the models and approaches that demonstrate effective pathways towards inclusive employment, contributing to the evidence and knowledge base of Sightsavers’ economic empowerment portfolio. The evaluation will place a particular emphasis on how the design and delivery of programmes might be enhanced for future programmatic work including a deep dive into two specific project approaches, IT academies and agriculture.
• The consultancy will be expected to evaluate the project level data and materials as well as primary data collected and consider if and how the projects have contributed towards the programme theory of change.

Responsibilities

The consultancy will evaluate:

• If the purpose of the unrestricted portfolio has been achieved
• What models or approaches demonstrate improvement in economic inclusion of people with disabilities
• What partnership models are effective in providing leadership on inclusive employment
• What prevents or motivates the provision of a full range of products and services by financial institutions to people with disabilities. How we can use this knowledge to drive greater financial inclusion.

Key Deliverables

• Inception report drafted and finalised
• Desk review document/data review and analysis
• IT academy case study
• Malawi agriculture project case study
• Discussion of desk review and case study findings at the programme workshop
• Theory of Change reviewed at the programme workshop
• Consolidated evaluation report drafted
• Consolidated evaluation report completed

Skills and Experience

• Depth of knowledge conducting evaluations of economic empowerment programmes
• Previous experience working in West and East African countries, particularly Malawi, Kenya and /or Nigeria
• A proven track record of working on disability inclusion
• Previous experience developing and evaluating Theories of Change
• Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Ability to conduct comprehensive desktop summaries and case studies
• First class production of high-quality evaluation reports
• Understanding of the labour markets, socio-economic and cultural contexts of the programme countries
• Understanding of issues related to people with disabilities
• Strong project management skills, including planning, execution, and reporting
• Flexibility to conduct required data collection in Malawi, Kenya and/or Nigeria

Responsibilities

The Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) will deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met. Key duties will include:

• To develop, review and amend coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery with the guidance of the Head of Inclusive Futures
• Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core monthly financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.
• Work with the Head of Finance to develop tools to improve financial analysis throughout the project, for instance Power-BI dashboards, using data linked from the programme financial database (MyCLAIMS)
• Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor.
• Deliver the day-to-day finance and administration tasks on the DID project including partner transfers, cost recovery, fund management, procurement, manage the assets register.

Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role you will need:

• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
• Experience of institutional donor or large-scale contract management. In particular experience of FCDO funding would be useful.
• Excellent numerical skills
• Finance and Accounting experience
• High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer-based accounting system
• Strong attention to detail when needed, with a willingness to follow issues through to resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise work in a high-pressure environment working to competing deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Experience of conducting/participating in finance workshops (desirable)
• Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments. (desirable)
• Experience and awareness/understanding of international development context and humanitarian sector (desirable)
• Able to travel for up to 4 weeks per year
• Desire to follow up an accounting professional certification (i.e. ACCA or CIMA)

• The Programme Officer EE supports the following areas, examples are not exhaustive:
• Within programme delivery this role manages the project life cycle with partners from development through to close out; liaising with internal stakeholders and expertise specialists; supporting the implementation of all MEL aspects of the programme; executing participant surveys; coordinating activities at regional and global levels.
• Within project management the role ensures all aspects of the projects are effectively monitored and evaluated, adaptive learning applied; partner capacity building developed; technical advice provided to all stakeholders; reporting internally and externally
• Financial management to monitor project budgets and expenditure; collaboration with the finance team; partner financial capacity building.
• Information and communication management through provision of high quality case studies and worthy new stories relating to the programme; participating in activities related to disability inclusive employment; advocating for Sightsavers in relevant disability related meetings and forums.
• Safeguarding through ensuring all safeguarding policies adhered to by internal and external partners; oversee academy students and trainers receive their safeguarding induction and have a signed code of conduct in place.

Skills and Experience

• A qualification/tertiary degree in public health or other relevant field
• Proven track record with labour market issues including labour market assessments, skill training and job placements/fairs
• A track record managing participatory methods and partnerships.
• Familiarity with national legislation and policies in the field of disability, human rights, and inclusive employment.
• Significant experience implementing programmes, including experience of the disability sector and gender mainstreaming.
• Excellent communication skills and advocacy
• Strong reporting, budgets, IT
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
• Current and ongoing right to work in Kenya

Overview

• Sightsavers is looking for a Data Quality and Capture Manager to lead on the management of our new project output data capture system
• Salary: Local terms and conditions apply
• Location: Sightsavers Senegal Office, Kenya Office or Uganda Office
• Contract: Two-year fixed-term contract
• Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked and occasional home working
• Sightsavers is going through a digital transformation in data analytics to leverage operational insights into the reporting and decision making of the organisation. Through the capture of good quality data and the delivery of data analytics and reports to key people, we are engaging the organisation with the latest programme data from our thematic areas in eye health, social inclusion, education and neglected tropical diseases. Developing and integrating data capture systems, processes and tools into routine practices is the next step in promoting a data driven culture within the whole organisation as we build their data capture and data quality skills.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Data Quality and Capture Manager to work within the Data Analytics and Reporting Team (DART), and lead on the management of our new project output data capture system being built in DHIS2. They will oversee the transition from our current system to our in-development DHIS2 based system that will be rolled out over 2025, leading on the user training and support of the new system. They will be responsible for enabling teams across the organisation to capture and evaluate the quality of their data. This will involve rolling out the Indicator Reference Guide (IRG), our new standard list of indicators for project monitoring, across the organisational processes. The role will also be responsible for increasing the data quality awareness of the organisation.

The Data Quality and Capture Manager, working with stakeholders across the organisation, is responsible for project cycle management and thematic quality improvement processes, tools, and implementation.  Quality improvement is at the core of Sightsavers strategic objectives, and this role plays a pivotal part in ensuring the quality of project implementation at the country office and partner level.  This role is responsible for analysis of quality assurance data and the continued development of Sightsavers quality assurance systems.
The role will take a lead on the strategic direction of data capture and quality for DART and Sightsavers over this transition period, setting out a roadmap for Sightsavers data capture and quality.

Key duties will include:

• Leading the data capture process for output data and quality standards in the new DHIS2 platform
• Supporting the development of the new programme management output data system in DHIS2
• Leading on data, thematic and project cycle management quality assurance
• Support the development of tools and processes to improve project monitoring
• Lead on the data collection in DHIS2 of the Learning, Accountability and Monitoring Progress (LAMP) to support Sightsavers’ Thematic Strategies

It is anticipated the position will involve some international travel of up to 8 weeks per year.

Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Proven successful track record of working with organisational data management systems (ideally in health or international development). 
• Experience managing an output data capture system such as DHIS2 or similar
• Strong understanding of the international development/not-for-profit sector, with demonstrable experience in project Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E). Experience producing analytical reports or communication materials for a wide range of audiences.
• Understanding of the complexities of working across multiple countries and continents in an international development organisation.
• Advanced MS office computer skills - Word, Excel (to include advanced formulae, pivot tables), PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Fluent English

We are also looking for the following experience/ skills:

• Use of data capture software such as DHIS2 or similar
• Use of specialist statistical and analysis software e.g. Power BI/Tableau or similar
• Strong numeracy, analytical and organisational skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with and communicate clearly with a wide range of stakeholders through various channels (in person, email, reports, etc.)
• Ability to plan and prioritise workload to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage large, complex pieces of work with multiple stakeholders and to produce key deliverables on time.
• A commitment to equality of opportunity for disabled people.

About the role

The role supports the Futuremakers RISE Kenya Programme in its implementation, ensuring all activities are inclusive and responsive to the needs of persons with disabilities and marginalised groups. This is a full-time internship for 12 months (November 2024 - October 2025), from Monday to Friday. The role involves working within the Kenya Country Office team and the Futuremakers Programme team to support day-to-day programme implementation, coordination with partners and other NGOs, attending meetings and making follow-ups, and participating in awareness and advocacy initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure activities are implemented in line with the approved workplan.
• Support the mobilisation, selection, training, follow-up, and monitoring of job seekers with disabilities in capacity-building initiatives such as Accenture S2S, Yusudi, and IT Bridge Academy.
• Assist in the day-to-day engagement of the Bridge IT Academy at NITA and the virtual CCST project.
• Work with the programme team to maintain up-to-date participant and employer databases.
• Convene and attend partners and stakeholders’ meetings as assigned.
• Collaborate with partners to plan and coordinate awareness activities.
• Identify enablers to achieving set objectives with the programme team.
• Support advocacy initiatives.
• Liaise with government agencies, partners, and NGOs.
• Undertake report writing and preparation of programme activities.
• Perform any other duties as assigned from time to time.

Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate is a proactive and detail-oriented individual with a strong background in programme support and coordination. This person excels in implementing activities in line with approved workplans and has experience in mobilising, selecting, training, and monitoring job seekers with disabilities. Proficiency in maintaining up-to-date databases and engaging with partners and stakeholders is essential.

Jobholder Requirements

Essential:

• Relevant degree (or equivalent) or working experience in social sciences with a significant interest in disability, social inclusion, and advocacy.
• Strong organisational skills to manage workloads and meet daily and weekly deadlines.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency in training and facilitation. 

Desirable:

• Strong passion, knowledge, and experience in working with persons with disabilities and marginalised groups.
• Experience in report writing and communication skills.
• Enthusiasm and a desire to learn all aspects of programme management, facilitation, and reporting.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an Institutional Funding Advisor to support and maintain institutional donor relationships in the UK, both directly and in support of other members of the Institutional Funding team. This includes working with the Institutional Funding Senior Advisor in directly managing existing funding agreements and in leading on the development of new funding relationships for the team.  The role will involve contract management, bid development, learning and continuous improvement.  

Skills and Experience

This is an ideal opportunity to build on your existing institutional funding experience. To succeed in this role you will need:

• Demonstrable experience of working with institutional donors, preferably including bilaterals, multilaterals or large scale foundations
• Strong knowledge of current international development issues
• Experience of producing applications and reports
• Experience of producing management information
• Good research skills
• Good proposal development and writing skills
• Good understanding of budgets and financial data
• Good IT skills including digital media
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel up to 4 weeks internationally per year
• An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for disabled people

Benefits 

Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive package includes generous annual leave allowance and other benefits.