TechCraft Manager

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Scale-Up

• Set and drive TechCraft's strategic direction, translating the proven Kibera pilot into a costed, phased national expansion strategy across site selection, partnerships, and delivery models.
• Oversee delivery of both learning tracks — skilled trades and digital gig work — establishing standardized systems, curricula, and quality benchmarks that allow the model to be replicated without loss of quality or impact.

Model Innovation

• Lead the design and continuous improvement of TechCraft's four core innovations: employer co designed training, the Women at Work gender-inclusive initiative, the YDN business rating system, and the trade tool lending library.

Partnerships, Employer Engagement & Resource Mobilization

• Build and steward strategic partnerships with employers, industry bodies, and government agencies (including NITA) to secure placements, apprenticeships, and pathways into formal contracts for graduates.
• Work with the YDN Director to develop compelling proposals, cultivate sustainability pathways such as earned-income and cost-recovery mechanisms, and provide high-quality reporting that demonstrates impact and value for money.

Team Leadership, Financial Management & Impact

• Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team of program officers, field officers, and trainers.
• Hold overall accountability for TechCraft budgets and donor compliance, and work with the MEAL team to track placement, income, savings, and gender-equity outcomes, using evidence to drive continuous improvement.

Required & Essential:

• A master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. development studies, economics, education/TVET, business, or social sciences); a bachelor's degree with exceptional relevant experience may be considered.
• At least 7 years' progressive experience in youth employment, workforce development, TVET, or livelihoods programming, including significant senior leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated success in scaling or expanding a program of similar nature, ideally in informal settlement or resource-constrained contexts.
• Proven track record managing multi-donor budgets and delivering against ambitious targets in compliance with donor regulations.
• Familiarity with NITA accreditation, apprenticeship models, or the digital gig economy in Kenya.
• Experience designing or leading gender-inclusive or women's economic empowerment initiatives.
• Exposure to social-enterprise or earned-income models for sustainability