Vacancy: County Coordinators
3 Positions
Program: G-United
Location: Kisii, Kajiado and Meru
Reporting To: Associate Field Operations
Starting Date: November 2015Program: G-United
Location: Kisii, Kajiado and Meru
Reporting To: Associate Field Operations
About Evidence Action: Evidence Action scales proven interventions that improve the lives of millions. We implement cost-effective interventions whose efficacy is backed by substantial rigorous evidence.
Evidence Action identifies
innovative, appropriate financing mechanisms and builds best practice
operational models.
We voraciously self-evaluate, learn,
and improve our models for scaling with a commitment to transparency on progress,
impact, and value for money.
Our current flagship programs include:
Our current flagship programs include:
- Dispensers for Safe Water is an
entrepreneurial program scaling the chlorine dispenser system – a proven
innovation that dramatically expands access to water treatment at an extremely
low cost.
- Deworm the World Initiative actively supports
the scale-up of school-based deworming programs worldwide to improve
children’s health, education, and long-term development.
About G-United: G-United is a national volunteer program initiated
by the Presidency, led and implemented by the Ministry of Education, Science
and Technology and supported by Evidence Action.
The program aims to promote national
cohesion, improve educational outcomes for children in over 15,000 primary
schools across the country, and create enriching opportunities for over 30,000
unemployed Kenyan youth.
Under this selective and prestigious
program, the government has recruited recent university graduates to serve as
volunteers in primary schools, where they support remedial education and serve
as ‘education ambassadors’ in the surrounding community.
Volunteers receive training, a small
stipend to cover living expenses, and career development opportunities as a part
of the experience.
This evidence-based program is
modelled on effective government-run programs that have successfully achieved
impact at scale in South Asia and West Africa. Since its Launch by H.E the
President and the H.E the Deputy President in September 2014, the G-United
Programme continues to show promise as a groundbreaking and successful national
programme.
The volunteers are providing
exceptional service in schools and communities and are having a life-changing
and inspiring experience that will shape their futures.
The Programs’ first cohort of
Volunteers is scheduled to attend a career fair in September 2015 as they
successfully winds up their one year of service in the Counties.
About County Coordinator, Field Operations
The County Coordinator, Field Operations will oversee field operations for the programme in the counties ensuring that volunteers are enabled to do their work with the highest level of quality.
About County Coordinator, Field Operations
The County Coordinator, Field Operations will oversee field operations for the programme in the counties ensuring that volunteers are enabled to do their work with the highest level of quality.
This includes ensuring that the
personal and professional needs of the volunteer are met; fostering learning,
sharing and networking between volunteers, communicating programmatic changes
and improvements to volunteers and county government officials; and training
volunteers, county and school-level officials.
The County Coordinator, Field
Operations will liaise with other partners in the field including county,
district, and school officials as well as other stakeholders in the private
sector, as required, to prepare them to fully own and implement the programme
in their region.
The County Coordinator, Field
Operations, will report to the Field Operations- Associate.
Goals and Responsibilities
Partnerships and Relationships with County Government, Community and Schools built.
Goals and Responsibilities
Partnerships and Relationships with County Government, Community and Schools built.
- Sensitize, orient and train county-level committees,
officials, schools, teachers and the community on the program, its
objectives, and implementation.
- Ensure that counties, schools and communities
are adequately prepared for volunteers to arrive and thrive in the county.
- Engage actively in county activation process
and ensure the selected counties are ready and willing to support the
programme.
- Support county-level ownership and management
of the recruitment/selection process and ensure that appropriate
county-level needs and priorities are integrated into the
recruitment/selection process.
- Facilitate county level meetings and
engagements to manage, support and review the program – for compliance
with guidelines but also for performance according to goals.
- Continuous engagement with homestays through
courtesy phone calls and visits to boost their motivation and ongoing
support for the programme
- Work with the partnership team to Identify
partners at the county level for VGA internship placement.
Volunteer Supervision and Monitoring
achieved
- Manage and supervise the volunteers regularly
and ensure they are fulfilling their responsibility and achieving the
programme goals in schools and communities.
- Communicate to the Associate filed operations
and the national team regularly on the performance of Volunteers in
regards to monitoring attendance, programme design and achievement of the
programme objectives.
- Conducting impromptu spot checks on the
Volunteers to verify attendance or non-attendance of individual
volunteers.
- Support Monitoring for evaluation of the three
program goals.
- Supporting any donor/government visits at the
county and in schools.
Mentorship and continuous
Professional Building conducted
- Offer support to the volunteers in their
individual community projects.
- Foster an environment of continual improvement
of volunteer skills
- Conduct activities to maintain a high level of
volunteer motivation, and offer continual training to volunteers to
improve their content knowledge.
- Identify and support internships and placements
for Volunteers in their professional fields in both the public and private
sector agencies in the counties during the holidays in the county.
- Identify and support volunteers with
entrepreneurial goals and ambitions and connect them with local
opportunities and the national team for further facilitation.
Logistical support for Programme
Activities Provided
- Support identification and oversight for
schools, home-stays and matching volunteers to schools and home-stays.
- Support logistics of volunteer deployment
including travel arrangements, housing if necessary, payment of stipends
for volunteers and home-stays, etc.
- Support logistics of volunteer incident
management in case any incidences befall the volunteers such as medical
emergencies, change of homestays, terror threats
- Provide logistical support for all other
Programme activities that may arise as need be including Career Fair,
graduation and related tracking and documentation.
Emergencies and Incidences handled
timely and appropriately
- Communicate regularly with volunteers about
safety, rules and regulations and any other important areas that may
arise.
- Handle incidence and emergency response
strategy for field activities.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills
- Minimum qualification of a bachelor’s degree
in Development studies, Social Work, Project Management or any relevant
field from a recognized university.
- 1-2 Years work experience in a high-performing
work environment and management of people from diverse cultures and
religion.
- Proven record of achieving ambitious results,
individually, and as part of a team.
- Strong consensus building, conflict
management, and negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
skills
- Superb organization, detail-orientation, and
planning skills
- Ability to thrive in a goal-oriented,
fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment, including the ability to be
flexible in project execution.
- Thrives on feedback and hungry to continually
learn, improve, and help others grow
- Applicant MUST BE a resident of the county
they wish to work in.
How to Apply
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