Africa Inland Child and Community Agency for Development Jobs Opportunities

AICCAD is implementing a 5-year orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program, dubbed MWENDO in Partnership with CRS, which seeks to empower local and county-level OVC stakeholders to strengthen the formal and informal HIV and child protection systems and services and the linkages between them, including cross-sectoral service referrals and coordination to ensure quality service delivery for OVC, Caregivers and their households.


Africa Inland Child and Community Agency for Development Household Economic Strengthening Officer Jobs Opportunities

Responsibilities

Project Coordination and Supervision

  • Works with the project team members to develop responsive monthly workplans and ensures prudent allocation and utilization of resources.
  • Holds regular staff and community meetings to review progress, address emerging issues and plan for subsequent actions.
  • Coordinate all support supervision activities by SILC supervisors ensuring that field agents are adequately provided with the support they need to undertake their roles.
  • Continually communicates to the project Coordinator and MWENDO technical officers on project progress, challenges and support required to deliver on the project objectives.
  • Ensures that all the activities being implemented are conducted within a process that enhances community ownership, participation and contribution for sustainability.

    Service delivery to OVC and their caregivers

  • Work closely with the project Coordinator, Case Management and System strengthening Project Officers to develop case plans and support implementation of HES interventions.
  • Supports project team members in implementation of key activities that includes: recruit Field Agent supervisors and Field Agents, Map and define agent operating areas, support agent certification, PSP launches and PSP network formation.
  • Supports HES project team members to work with the community based workforce to deliver services to OVC caregivers. These services shall include but not limited to trainings on SILC PSP model, CRS SMART skills modules, Financial literacy, marketing basics and 7 Steps of Marketing and value chains analysis and roll out MWENDO emergency Fund.
  • Work with project team to link OVC not in school to CAP -YEI and other relevant empowerment programs
  • Takes lead in the implementation of the House hold Economic strengthening approaches to OVC and their households.

    Coordination of Care to OVC

  • Works with the DCS and Private Sector Actors to advocate for linkage of caregivers to GOK cash transfers, in kind agricultural support and other subsidies.
  • Works with GoK departments and county government departments to offer extension services to strengthen the capacity of producer groups and SILC farmer groups.

    Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge management

  • Conducts routine support supervisions and spot checks to project sites and Field Supervisors, Field agents and SILC groups to ensure quality service delivery to OVC and their caregivers.
  • Works with M&E team to ensure that the they adequately undertake their M and E functions within the acceptable project standards for effective data entry, analysis, reporting and accountability for results.
  • Supports project team members to identify, document, and disseminate knowledge products to build on evidence based practices in Household Economic strengthening initiatives.
  • Responsible for timely monthly and quarterly donor reporting. Ensures that the M and E team effectively utilize SILC MIS, and manage data and use data for decision making.

    Qualifications

  • A diploma (with at least 3 years of relevant experience) or a Bachelor’s degree (with at least 2 years’ experience’) in Social Sciences, Agriculture, Micro Finance, Business Administration, project Management or related field from a recognized institution of learning.
  • Specialized knowledge of and experience with savings group programming—with a preference for community-agent and/or fee-for-service approaches.
  • Relevant experience in Community development focusing on sustainable livelihood approaches, project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning.
  • Familiarity with integrating savings groups in OVC programming.
  • Excellent analytic and computer skills; skilled in MS Office Suite including Word,
  • Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
  • Excellent report writing skills.

    How to apply

    The applications should be received latest on 20th March 2018. Send by hand delivery or courier services. We are on Ngong road opposite Nakumatt Prestige behind Algasim Motors next to Rehema Place

    For more information and job application details, see; Africa Inland Child and Community Agency for Development Household Economic Strengthening
    Officer Jobs Opportunities





    Africa Inland Child and Community Agency for Development Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Officer Jobs Opportunities

    Job Summary:

    The MEAL Officer will ensure that systems are in place to measure the project’s impact and progress and that data is readily available to be used as a foundation for programmatic adjustments and evidence-based decision-making. The MEAL officer will ensure that the capacity of project team is enhanced, beneficiaries and other stakeholders have opportunity to give and receive feedback, and documentation of project learning is consistent with project learning agenda.

    Responsibilities

  • Ensure accurate data collection, data entry, data cleaning & maintaining the OVC filing system
  • Ensure MWENDO MEAL systems comply with both CRS global and regional policies, procedures, standards, and strategic initiatives, as well as core team standards
  • Ensure roll out of standardized forms and tools to collect relevant disaggregated data on project monitoring indicators, effects, and impacts using CRS’ SMILER methodology (Simple Measurement of Indicators for Learning and Evidence-based Reporting).
  • Systematically collect, validate, and analyze data and ensure that it is accurate and of the highest quality by conducting regular data quality assessments and verifications.
  • Work closely with MWENDO LIP staff to produce high-quality data and progress reports as per the reporting intervals (monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually)
  • Support other key LIP staff to design and implement project assessments including, gender analysis, stakeholder analysis, hotspots mapping and other data regular and adhoc data collection and analysis activities.
  • Ensure that all project monitoring arrangements comply with the project and donor agreements and ensure that agreements are concretely operationalized.
  • Work with MWENDO CRS MEAL staff to identify community defined indicators that will show success in the eyes of the project beneficiaries
  • Work with MWENDO CRS MEAL staff to set up feedback and response mechanisms that will allow the project to receive and respond to feedback from the project beneficiaries
  • Coordinate documentation of lessons learned, best practices, program data, evaluations, and other information to generate donor communication pieces, success stories, case studies, and other high-quality, results-based documentation at LIP level
  • Facilitate the use of Project data by Project staff, and other stakeholders to inform decision-making and to identify lessons learned and promising practices.
  • Coordinate monthly data review meetings at LIP level

    Qualifications

  • Design: Familiarity with PEPFAR/OVC related MEAL system tools and components, and CPIMS/OLMIS is an added advantage
  • Monitoring: Ability to implement monitoring activities including timely collection of quality data, facilitation of participatory reflection of monitoring data and submission of timely progress reports.
  • Evaluation: Ability to support project evaluations and reviews and to facilitate the use of evaluation results to inform decision making and enhance learning.
  • Accountability: Ability to ensure accountability to stakeholders through increased participation, transparent communication, responsive feedback mechanisms, and adherence to internal and external quality standards and requirements.
  • Learning: Ability to establish knowledge management and collaborative learning processes at the LIP level, generate evidence for project and programmatic learning that leads to action, decision making and influence.
  • ICT4MEAL: Ability to apply knowledge on ICT for opportune and accurate data collection, database management, conduct analysis and make information easily accessible.
  • Report writing and documentation: Has demonstrated ability in documentation and consolidation of reports

    How to apply

    The applications should be received latest on 20th March 2018. Send by hand delivery or courier services. We are on Ngong road opposite Nakumatt Prestige behind Algasim Motors next to Rehema Place

    For more information and job application details, see; Africa Inland Child and Community Agency for Development Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Officer Jobs Opportunities

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