Kenya Red Cross Society is one of the
largest humanitarian organizations in Kenya.
Its mission is to be the leading
humanitarian organization in Kenya delivering excellent quality service of
preventing and Alleviating Human Suffering.
Position Title: Project Officer
Reporting to: County
Manager
Job Location: Nairobi
Job Summary: Reporting to the County manager,the Project Officer
is responsible for effective planning, budgeting and implementation of the
Sexual and Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Project in the
country.
Other responsibilities include
building and strengthening partnerships with key partners and other
stakeholders, creating synergies, referral linkages and enhancing collaboration
and networking.
Main Functions of Post:
Designing, planning
&implementation of Strategies for preventing & responding to SGBV
- Conduct community sensitizations on the goals,
objectives, activities and implementation of the Project as well as
partner with necessary stakeholders.
- Developing and maintaining positive and
professional working relationship with partners
- Collaborate with relevant National and County
Government Departments to ensure successful implementation of project
activities
- Facilitate and organize training programs
aimed at creating awareness and building the capacity of the target
community to implement social mobilization and violence prevention strategies
- Build community partnerships, identification
and mobilization of potential violence survivors as well as building the
capacity of volunteer community leaders to support the project.
- Participate in the design, development,
implementation awareness and sensitization campaigns aimed at equipping
and strengthening staff, volunteers and communities with capacity to
mainstream Sexual Violence Prevention in their programs.
- Maintain awareness of budget and expenditures
in order to manage the program within budget
- Provide guidance on effective budget
utilization among supervisory units
- Coordinate the acquisition of project
resources and closely track the budget in line with the approved financial
projections and WPS
- Conduct gender-focused BCC activities that
will lead to a reduction in harmful practices
- Establish effective referral/patient-transport
system.
- Compliance with policies, strategies and
standards (RC and MoH)
- Establish Project Steering Committe in the
project sites and ensure linkages with HQ Project Steering Committee
- Familiarise with local issues related to
Gender Based Violence and support the volunteers and relavant project
staff to develop sensible and feasible ways to influence positive change
- Ensure at the field level that project
volunteers and staff have necessary tools for implementation of the
planned community work including relevant adapted IEC materials
Project Monitoring & Evaluation
- Analyzing, compiling and submitting monthly
SGBV reports to the County Manager and Programme Manager for sharing
- Contribute to the development of project
proposal, concept notes & publications
- Regularly monitoring of activities and provide
feedback for adjustment of activities as needed.
- Ensuring that assigned projects achieve set
goals, objectives and outcomes
- Assisting in mid-term or end of project
evaluations on SGBV
- Conducting regular home visits to assess and
verify activities
- Develop and implement clear handover/exit
strategy to relevant ministries.
Report writing & documentation
- Prepare periodic progress, quarterly and
annual reports showing achievements against planned targets as well as
providing justification for performance variances and areas of improvement
- Developing annual procurement plans and timely
procurement of project items
- Keeping inventory of all items in the project
implementation site disaggregated by age and gender
- Assisting in the preparation of the
programmes’ operation plans/work plans & reviews
Staff supervision
- Hold monthly sessions with project volunteers
and prepare weekly work plans for the project
- Assigning tasks to project volunteers to
ensure effective, efficient and timely implementation
- Provide project volunteers with counselling
support and mentoring.
- Fulfil any other duties and responsibilities
as assigned by the supervisor.
Experience, skills and qualifications
- BSc in Social Services/ Gender or equivalent
qualifications
- In-depth experience and understanding of
mainstreaming gender issues into programming
- At least two years field experience,
preferably with an NGO and or MoH.
- Strong background in training and commitment
to capacity building.
- Ability to find solutions to complex problems
in a challenging environment.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- Project management skills including PMER
- Coordination and networking
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Strong computer skills Flexible, ability to
work both as an individual and as a team leader and under stress in what
can be a harsh environment.
Application Procedure
Interested candidates who meet the
above qualifications should send their applications to the address below and
the application should be received on or before 25th September 2015.
Applications should have a cover letter, curriculum vitae, names and contacts of three referees.
Interested candidates are highly
encouraged to apply.
Secretary General
Kenya Red Cross Society
P.O. Box 40712-00100,
Nairobi