Overview
Provide senior strategic advisory leadership on WFP’s engagement with the Government of Kenya, Private Sector, Foundations, and International Financial Institutions. Anchor high-level policy dialogue and institutional relationships for sovereign financing arrangements and government-anchored programmes.
Tasks Summary
- Provide senior strategic advisory leadership on Government engagement, sovereign financing arrangements, and institutional partnerships.
- Serve as WFP’s interface with senior Government counterparts and IFI leadership, anchoring policy dialogue.
- Lead coordination and lifecycle stewardship of innovative development financing mechanisms.
- Assess and advise on political economy, fiscal sustainability, institutional risk, and partnership dynamics.
- Ensure integration of WFP-supported programmes within national policy, planning, and budgetary frameworks.
- Provide functional oversight and strategic guidance to WFP-supported advisors embedded within Government institutions.
- Strengthen internal cross-functional coordination within the Country Office.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible professional experience in government engagement, public finance, development cooperation, policy advisory, strategic partnerships, or development finance.
- Demonstrated experience operating at Director-level (or equivalent senior leadership level) within Government ministries, departments, or agencies; or within the private sector, including development finance institutions, financial institutions, advisory firms, or large corporate organizations engaging sovereign or public-sector clients.
- Proven experience advising or interacting with senior decision-makers on strategic policy, fiscal, financing, or investment-related matters.
- Demonstrated experience designing, negotiating, coordinating, or stewarding complex financing or partnership arrangements, preferably within sovereign, public-sector, or multilateral contexts.
- Strong understanding of public financial management systems, national budgetary processes, inter-ministerial coordination, and institutional governance frameworks.
- Experience operating in politically and institutionally complex environments requiring independent judgement, risk assessment, and sustained senior-level relationship management over extended time horizons.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder partnerships involving Government, IFIs, development partners, and internal cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with international development cooperation principles, sovereign partnership frameworks, and results-based or performance-linked financing modalities is highly desirable.
Qualification Requirements
Advanced University degree in Economics, Public Finance, Public Policy, Development Economics, International Development, Political Science, International Relations, Finance, or a related field or First University degree in the above-mentioned fields combined with additional years of relevant professional experience and/or advanced training in public finance, development finance, or international development.
