HelpAge International is a global network of not-for-profit
organizations with a vision of a world where older people fulfill their
potential to lead active, dignified, healthy and secure lives.
To facilitate this and in service to the older people, we seek to fill below
vacancies in various projects and support services.Job Title: Logistics Assistant
Department: Finance & Administration
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Responsible To: Senior Administrative Officer
Relations with Others: All EWCARDC staff, partners and other third parties
Purpose: The overall purpose of this position is facilitation of logistics support region including taking staff to meetings and field visits, maintenance and safety of vehicle fleet and running official errands.
Responsibilities:
Purpose: The overall purpose of this position is facilitation of logistics support region including taking staff to meetings and field visits, maintenance and safety of vehicle fleet and running official errands.
Responsibilities:
1.1 Logistics
- Assist
with management of EWCARDC fleet of vehicles - routine minor and major
service, ensuring adequate fuel, checking and keeping record of any damage
to vehicle or accident and bringing these to attention of supervisor
- Ensuring
fleet of vehicles have undergone any statutory inspection and other
regulatory requirement
- Ensure
logging of mileage of fleet of vehicles is up to date
- Running
daily errands as allocated by SAC based on Errands Request register
- Ensuring
safety of passenger, the vehicle being driven and other road users
- Invoicing
staff for private mileage every month
- Ensuring
EWCARDC Transport Policy is adhered to.
1.2 Others
- Act
as an official EWCARDC bank agent
- Assist
with quarterly and annual stock-take
- Assist
with franking, sorting, photocopying and binding documents on request
- Assist
with procurement duties including soliciting for quotes via email, petty
purchases etc
- Assist
in processing of work permits and staff travel documents
- Any
other duty that may be assigned by supervisor or management
Person Specification:
Essential:
- At
least 5 years experience in logistics work.
- Good
driving skills, valid driving license and a thorough knowledge of Nairobi
and its environs.
- Basic
knowledge of computer packages including word processing, email and
internet
- Ability
to work independently.
- Certificate
of good conduct
- Neat,
courteous and sensitive to other cultures
Knowledge/Skills:
- Strong
interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent
time management skills
- Team
player skills
Education Criteria:
- At
least secondary school level of education
- Certificate
in motor vehicle mechanics
- Background
in purchasing and supplies an added advantage.
Desirable: Previous NGO working experience
How to apply
To apply for this position, please send an updated CV, copies of certificates and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 7th September, 2012, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please send an updated CV, copies of certificates and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 7th September, 2012, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.
Job Title: Assistant Social Protection Rights Coordinator (ASPRC)
Department: Programmes
Location: Lodwar, Kenya
Responsible To: HSNP Social Protection Rights Coordinator
Responsible for: Field Officers,
Relations with Others:
1. Social Protection Rights Coordinator
2. Project Manager – HSNP
3. Regional Social Protection Manager
4. EWCARDC team in Nairobi
Organization Background
HelpAge International is a global network of not-for-profit
organisations with a vision of a world where older people fulfill their
potential to lead active, dignified, healthy and secure lives.
With more than 70 affiliates and 300 partners across more than
50 countries the HelpAge International network brings together hundreds of
organisations worldwide.
HelpAge International has a secretariat with offices in London
and Brussels, five regional centres in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, the
Caribbean and Central Asia, seven national programmes and a number of
emergencies.
Background to the HSNP
The Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) is a long term social
protection programme in Kenya funded by UKaid from the Department for
international Development, AusAID and in partnership with the ministry for
Development OF Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands.
The aim is to reduce extreme poverty; vulnerability and hunger
and also develop a national social protection framework in Kenya. The
programmes aims to achieve its objectives by delivering long-term guaranteed
cash transfers to extremely poor and vulnerable households to improve access to
food protect assets and reduce the impact of shocks.
HelpAge is one of the consultants that was mandated to deliver
the social protection rights component in the just completed phase 1 of the
HSNP programme and has been contracted to deliver the social protection rights
component in phase 2 which will run from 2012 to 2017.
The programme is being implemented in Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit
and Turkana districts with HelpAge’s role in the programme being to promote the
realization of rights of programme beneficiaries and the rights of the wider
communities in all the four counties.
It is expected that HelpAge will work with government
institutions and other stakeholders to realise its objectives and ultimately
handover its responsibilities to the government to ensure a sustainable rights
based grievance mechanism.
Overall Job Purpose:
The ASPRC will work closely with the Social Protection Rights
Coordinator (SPRC) in the design, review and implementation of all aspects of
the HSNP SPR component in the county of Turkana with guidance from the Project
Manager in Nairobi on policy and other critical issues.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Contribute
to the progressive design and review of the SPR component including: the
Programme Charter of Rights and Responsibilities; the Programme Service
Charter; grievance mechanism (including appeals process); and rights
education programme to reflect the changes due in the second phase of HSNP
- Implementation
of the HSNP grievance mechanism including processing and following-up on
complaints and adjudicating on appeals cases.
- Facilitate
meetings with the programme participants to obtain feedback and
communicate grievances or problems to the SPR team.
- Facilitate
the realization of the rights of the wider community through collaboration
with duty bearers and training of the community and advocacy work.
- Support
the setting up of effective advocacy groups and Rights committees
- Process
monitoring and independent quality assurance of the HSNP’s targeting,
payments and M&E processes and evidence-based engagement with
implementing components.
- Representing
HelpAge at key local forums including DSG meetings, food security steering
group meetings and others as necessary in the absence of the SPRC or as
delegated.
- Working
with the SPRC to develop workplans and compile all reports required.
- Consistently
and regularly ensure collection and submission of quality data by field
Officers
- Establish
and train Rights Committees in each of the targeted communities and
delivery of separate programmes of rights education to a) Rights
Committees, b) communities as a whole and c) community leaders. Public
administrators, government officers and representatives of statutory
bodies at county level
- Proactive
engagement with existing rights-oriented civil society organisations and
networks to ensure maximum ‘reach’ at community level. Recruit and train
volunteers to provide on-going capacity building support to the HSNP
Rights Committees.
- Implementation
of an appropriate public communications strategy including engagement of
alternative communications strategies such as community drama would be
particularly desirable as would facilitation of alternative means of
lodging complaints. ASPRC and SPRC will work together to develop these
approaches.
- Evidence
gathering on rights infringements and contribution to HelpAge’s internal
learning process as part of the Social Protection team.
- Providing
support to HelpAge’s implementing partners in the HSNP in the absence of
the HSNP PM or when delegated.
- In
the absence of the SPRC, or when delegated, day-to-day management of HAI’s
sub-office in Lodwar including operational management, logistics, line
management of support staff and implementation of HelpAge’s security plan.
- Ensure
that there is an updated status of all programme matters particularly
complaints received, resolved and status of all unresolved cases
Person Specification:
The following criteria are considered as essential:
- Bachelors’
degree in social sciences, development studies or community development.
- At
least 3 years work experience in NGO
- Understanding
of social exclusion, vulnerability and rights-issues
- Experience
in operational management including management of field staff;
- Experience
in capacity building and working with civil society organisations
- Knowledge
of relevant rights-oriented civil society networks;
- Strong
community mobilisation, facilitation and mediation skills;
- A
commitment to rights education and the empowerment of vulnerable groups
- Ability
and willingness to travel extensively in Northern Kenya
- Proficiency
in nga’turkana and English languages;
In addition, the following will are considered desirable:
- An
understanding of the basic principles and objectives of the humanitarian
accountability agenda;
- Experience
in cash-based interventions;
- Some
experience in the design or management of complaints mechanisms and/or
dispute resolution/or working in a rights based programme
How to apply
To apply for this position, please send an updated CV, copies of certificates and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 7th September, 2012, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.
To apply for this position, please send an updated CV, copies of certificates and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 7th September, 2012, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.
Job Title: Assistant Project Coordinator (Emergencies)
Department: Programmes
Location: Lodwar, Kenya
Responsible To: HSNP Social Protection Rights Coordinator
Responsible for: Field Officers,
Relations with Others:
1. Program Manager – Emergencies
2. Program Officer – Emergencies
3. Program Coordinator - Emergencies
4. EWCARDC team in Nairobi
Organization Background
HelpAge International is a global network of not-for-profit
organisations with a vision of a world where older people fulfill their
potential to lead active, dignified, healthy and secure lives. With more than
70 affiliates and 300 partners across more than 50 countries the HelpAge
International network brings together hundreds of organisations
worldwide.
HelpAge International has a secretariat with offices in London
and Brussels, five regional centres in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, the
Caribbean and Central Asia, seven national programmes and a number of
emergencies.
Background to the Emergencies
HelpAge’s strategic aim for its work in emergencies is to ensure
that older people receive humanitarian assistance as they are entitled to
according to humanitarian principles.
We achieve this by implementing responses to emergencies and,
using the evidence of our programmes and research, influencing the policy and
programmes of other humanitarian aid providers – including national governments
– to ensure they meet the needs of older people.
Overall Job Purpose:
The assistant project coordinator will work closely with the
Social Protection Rights Coordinator (SPRC) in the design, review and
implementation of all aspects of the emergency component of the overall program
in the county of Turkana with guidance from the Program Manager in Nairobi on
policy and other critical issues.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Contribute
to the progressive design and review of emergency projects implemented in
Turkana.
- Ensure
implementation of funded emergency projects as per donor guidelines,
expectations and HelpAge policies and procedures.
- Representing
HelpAge at key local forums including DSG meetings, food security steering
group meetings and others as necessary in the absence of the SPRC or as
delegated.
- Support
field staff and partners in Turkana in relation to emergency response and
DRR programmes, ensuring systems and procedures are followed ensuring
regular monitoring of activity implementation through field visits.
- Document
experience gained in HelpAge’s emergency and DRR programmes at local level
as well as other sources in order to share evidence and learning and
disseminate good practise.
- Develop
collaborative and partnership operations with other operational agencies
in order to mainstream response to the needs of older people.
- Be
involved in the organization of emergency and DRR trainings and other
events organized in Turkana.
- Support
the setting up and functioning of an effective intergeneration complaints
and feedback mechanism within the emergency projects to enhance accountability
- Working
with the SPRC to develop workplans and compile all reports required.
- Consistently
and regularly ensure collection and submission of quality data by field
Officers
- Implementation
of an appropriate public communications strategy including engagement of
alternative communications strategies such as community drama would be
particularly desirable as would facilitation of alternative means of
lodging complaints. Work with the Social Protection team to develop these
approaches.
- In
the absence of the SPRC, or when delegated, day-to-day management of HAI’s
sub-office in Lodwar including operational management, logistics, line
management of support staff and implementation of HelpAge’s security plan.
- Ensure
that there is an updated status of all programme matters.
Person Specification:
The following criteria are considered as essential:
- Bachelors’
degree in social sciences, development studies or community development.
- At
least 3 years work experience in NGO
- Understanding
of food security, vulnerability and DRR issues
- Experience
in operational management including management of field staff;
- Experience
in capacity building
- A
strong understanding of current emergency programmes in northern Kenya
- Strong
community mobilisation, facilitation and mediation skills;
- A
commitment to rights education and the empowerment of vulnerable groups
- Ability
and willingness to travel extensively in Northern Kenya
- Proficiency
in nga’turkana and English languages;
In addition, the following will are considered desirable:
- An
understanding of the basic principles and objectives of the humanitarian
accountability agenda;
- Some
experience in the design or management of complaints mechanisms and/or
dispute resolution/or working in a rights based programme
How to apply
To apply for this position, please send an updated CV, copies of certificates and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 7th September, 2012, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.
To apply for this position, please send an updated CV, copies of certificates and covering letter, explaining how you meet the criteria for this role to the Regional Human Resource Coordinator on helpage@helpage.co.ke by 7th September, 2012, clearly indicating the position you are applying for on the subject of your email.