Women in Modern Agriculture (WIMA) is
implementing a 4 year orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program in Rarieda
Sub- County, Siaya County, which seeks to empower local and county-level OVC
stakeholders to strengthen the formal and informal HIV, child protection
systems and services as well as linkages between them including multi-sectoral
service referrals and coordination to ensure quality service delivery to OVC
and their HHs.
WIMA wishes to recruit the following:
WIMA wishes to recruit the following:
Position: Data Officers
Location: Rarieda Sub-County
Overall
Purpose: To manage efficient data entry and
data base support services to WIMA OVC project in coordination with the Social
workers and project M&E Officer.
S/He will ensure proper data entry
and filing system for the data collected in the field.
Specific
Responsibilities:
·
Verifying data and ensuring entries
are correct daily.
·
Ensure that data from the field
captures defined variables.
·
Coordinates with the Social Workers
in ensuring that required data is timely sent to project M&E person.
·
Backing up the database daily
·
Ensure daily filing of the data forms
after entry into the database as per protocol
·
Update the data centre tracking sheet
daily
Required
qualifications and experience:
·
Vocational training in IT related
course
·
1 year experience is desirable
·
Additional professional training in
data entry preferred.
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities:
·
Willingness and flexibility to work
long hours
·
Proficiency in written and spoken
English and Swahili.
·
Excellent knowledge of Microsoft
Office and database software;
·
Strong organizational and
interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented setting;
·
Valid Motor cycle Ridding licence
will be an added advantage.
Required
Travel: Travel within the project area at least 90%
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
Position: Household Economic Strengthening Officer
Job Location: Rarieda Sub-County
Job
Summary: Reporting to the Project Coordinator
– Household Economic Strengthening (HES) will support HES capacity
strengthening by providing training, accompaniment, and technical support to
households and household groups, focusing on implementing and managing farm
enterprises, financial education, market opportunity identification/assessment,
and entrepreneurship and business development services.
S/he will liaise with relevant
government ministries and programs, other technical experts and agencies, and
the private sector to support household graduation and transition.
Specific
Responsibilities:
·
Work with the Case Management Systems
tools to track household progress.
·
Facilitate group interactions through
regular communication, and site visits to support the successful implementation
of HES project activities across project area.
·
Coordinate with government officials
at all levels, strengthening appropriate coordination and technical support in
implementation and follow-up of HES activities.
·
Ensure that HES related activities are
appropriately planned and budgeted for in the budget plans.
·
Build capacity of groups on SMART
skills to better manage enterprises and engage with established markets and new
market linkages.
·
Train SILC agents and groups in 7
Steps of Marketing (market analysis, access to information and inputs, working
with financial institutions, business plan development) and link them to local
markets, existing associations, financial institutions, and companies working
in the agriculture sector.
·
Work closely with Farmer to Farmer to
provide technical assistance to farmer-focused SILC and caregiver groups where
appropriate.
·
Coordinate with Social enterprise
service providers in provision of livestock and crop products in order to
encourage farm and off farm enterprises
·
Support in identification of
Government Procurement Opportunities for youth, women, and persons with
disabilities
·
Use appropriate project management
tools to plan, review, and track implementation of the project with minimum
wastage of project resources.
·
Develop and maintain linkages with
governments, organizations, and projects that can support HES activities in the
project area.
·
Ensure a culture of accountability
and learning through regular monitoring to project sites, providing oversight
of studies and assessments, and proper documentation of tools and promising
practices to contribute to learning and building the evidence around household
graduation, transition, and economic strengthening.
·
Document project results and impacts
in various forms, including media stories, lessons learned, case studies,
client satisfaction, etc.
Key
Competencies:
·
Knowledge of microfinance;
·
Networking skills;
·
Strong organization skills;
·
Ability to work independently, think
innovatively and strategically, and work effectively within a team;
·
Fluency in written and spoken
English;
·
Excellent verbal and written
communication skills;
·
Ability to work under pressure and
within deadlines.
·
Must be a holder of a Valid
Driving/Ridding licence.
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
Education
·
Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture /
Livestock development, agricultural economics, economics, business
administration, or a closely related field.
Knowledge
·
At least a minimum 3 years’
experience in Households economic strengthening programming.
·
Proficiency in MS Office Suite
including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
·
Experience working with small scale
farmers and/or value-chain development, business development, entrepreneurship,
financial services with a focus on vulnerable populations with USG funded
projects.
·
Demonstrated experience in community
mobilization, organization, management and mediation among local actors and
partner capacity building
·
Demonstrated experience in training
design, delivery and mentoring in subject matter relevant to this position
Required
Travel: Travel within the project area
at least 90%
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
Position: Social Worker
Location: Rarieda Sub-County.
Purpose of the
Position: Provide quality, comprehensive
OVC support i.e. health, education, psychosocial support, economic opportunity,
shelter, nutrition, HIV prevention, Social and legal protection, Economic
Strengthening e.t.c working together with Community health Volunteers.
Major Duties
and Responsibilities
Visitation
·
Conducts needs assessment for
individual OVC and recommend necessary care and support.
·
Make referrals and follow up of OVC
under support through home and school visits
·
Network with other partners to ensure
child welfare, well being and survival in the community
·
Lead and ensure proper distribution
of one time relief services to children in need
·
Work with health department to advice
on the social issues affecting child health and recommend a care plan for the
necessary therapy
·
Work with vulnerable families and
economic empowerment team to assess and advice on social economic needs of the
families
·
Maintain child documentation and
profiling for all the OVC in the program
·
Manage and maintain a profile of
donor funding to individual families in need
·
Assist the households to come up with
a quarterly budget and make follow ups to ensure that the households are
incurring expenditure as per the stipulated budget.
Communication support
·
Writing a Child Status Progress
report on a quarterly basis
·
Developing a school lists for all
school going children at all levels
·
Assist in any other communication
need between the organization and the OVC
·
Develop and manage a child profiling
system.
Child Participation
·
Ensure child participation in special
events like; the day of the African Child, world Malaria day, World Aids day,
clean up exercises amongst others.
·
Train the OVC on different life
skills areas and supervise their progress
·
Identify challenges that the OVC may
be experiencing and identify possible solutions.
·
Assist to carry out holistic
empowerment of the OVC
·
Ensure all caregivers are registered
in Village Savings and Loaning groups where they abide by the groups laws and
undergo continuous capacity building.
·
Properly maintain parent/guardian
group lists
Internal Administration
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Writing monthly status reports
·
Complete the home visits records as
well as OVC information and submit the same to the supervisor
·
Assist in Coordinating, monitoring
and supervising the implementation of OVC activities
·
Write and analyze the field reports
before submission to the supervisors
·
Attend meetings whenever called for
and participate with opinions and ideas.
·
Actively participate in the
Psycho-Social Support, for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children and build the
community’s capacity to eventually run the PSS on their own.
·
Any other duties and responsibilities
assigned by the supervisor from time to time and which are geared towards
achieving the overall goal of home visitation.
Level of
education and Professional Qualifications
·
Diploma in any Social Science
discipline focused on community development.
·
Must have at least 3 years experience
working with high number of OVC burdens preferably with USG funded project.
·
Computer skills in Word, Excel and
Access.
·
Holder Valid Motor cycle Ridding
licence
·
High analytical skills.
·
Records Management Training.
Required
Travel: Travel within the project area
at least 90%
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (M & E)
Location: Rarieda Sub-County
Job
Summary: The M&E Officer is responsible
for ensuring data quality management, data aggregation, accurate and timely
reporting, training staff in data collection tools, and ensuring proper usage
and implementation of M&E tools and methodologies.
S/he is also responsible for
maintaining the projects databases, running regular reports, and responding to
ongoing needs and queries for specific data and/or reports.
Essential
Duties and Responsibilities
·
Work with provided M&E plan to
ensure program activities are tracked, reviewed in line with the overall goal
and implementation plan and have the desired impact to achieve program goals
and objectives
·
Lead efforts to monitor progress,
evaluate effectiveness, and disseminate results of the program activities
·
Ensure program learning agendas are
developed and followed
·
Train on and monitor use of
monitoring and evaluation tools to track program activities, outcomes and
impact
·
Ensure adherence to compliance of
M&E methodology and systems using developed tools and indicators
·
Build M&E competencies of program
staffs through training and technical assistance to ensure accurate data
collection, monitoring, data analysis and interpretation and reporting
·
Provide technical input, supervise
and participate in program evaluations including midterm and end term
evaluations.
·
Advise Project Coordinator on
M&E-related procedures and policy training activities
·
Meet program M&E deliverables on
time.
·
Help ensure quality performance of
technical efforts and field activities by coordinating programmatic reporting,
quality of data management and information
·
Conduct regular visits to worksites
to monitor the development and implementation of M&E activities
·
Support the documentation of program
learning throughout the life of the program
·
Manage program databases and run
regular reports to monitor progress including Program Tracker.
·
Adhere to and incorporate into
day-to-day operations WIMA/CRS office Standards of Professionalism
·
Maintain strict confidentiality of
all privileged information regarding both human resources and fiscal matters
·
Assist with any other duties as
required by Supervisor
·
The duties listed above are not
inclusive of all your duties at WIMA. WIMA reserves the right to change and
update position descriptions at any time.
Education and
Qualifications
·
Advanced degree in M&E or its
equivalent
Skills and
Experience
·
Minimum of 4years’ experience in
managing and reporting the applications of quantitative and qualitative
information management methods of local and international projects
·
Demonstrated experience and capacity
in managing information systems and the application of quantitative and
qualitative methods
·
Experience with OVC Program funded by
USG.
·
HIV prevention programming among
young people is a plus
·
Familiar with reporting through
KePMS, OLMIS & CPIMS
·
Knowledge of youth appropriate
M&E approaches a plus
·
Proven knowledge and experience
utilizing applications for the design, monitoring and evaluation of projects
·
Strong computer skills and a working
knowledge of statistical software
·
Ability to develop and maintain
positive relationships with professional contacts
·
Demonstrate flexibility, cultural
sensitivity when working with NGO partners, and the ability to adapt CHF
policies and procedures to the local context
·
A person of known integrity
·
Demonstrate the ability to work
constructively in a team
·
Superior written and verbal
communication skills in both English and Swahili.
·
Ability to interact clearly and
effectively with donors and other organizations
·
Strong organizational skills
Working
Conditions: Able to work for long hours on
computer.
Required
Travel: Travel within the project area
at least 90%
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
Position: SILC Agent Supervisor
Job Location: Rarieda Sub-County
Job
Summary: The Supervisor will support HES
capacity strengthening by providing training, majorly on SILC and technical
support to households and household groups, focusing on implementing and
managing farm enterprises, financial education, market opportunity
identification / assessment, and entrepreneurship and business development
services.
Specific
Responsibilities:
·
Work closely with HES officer on day
to day operations and planning of all activities.
·
Work with the Case Management Systems
tools to track household progress.
·
Facilitate group interactions through
regular communication, and site visits to support the successful implementation
of HES project activities across project area.
·
Build capacity of groups on SMART
skills to better manage enterprises and engage with established markets and new
market linkages.
·
Train SILC groups in 7 Steps of
Marketing (market analysis, access to information and inputs, working with
financial institutions, business plan development) and link them to local
markets, existing associations, financial institutions, and companies working
in the agriculture sector.
·
Work closely with Farmer to Farmer to
provide technical assistance to farmer-focused SILC and caregiver groups where
appropriate.
·
Use appropriate project management
tools to plan, review, and track implementation of the project with minimum
wastage of project resources.
·
Ensure a culture of accountability
and learning through regular monitoring to project sites, providing oversight
of studies and assessments, and proper documentation of tools and promising
practices to contribute to learning and building the evidence around household
graduation, transition, and economic strengthening.
·
Document project results and impacts
in various forms, including media stories, lessons learned, case studies,
client satisfaction, etc.
Key
Competencies:
·
Knowledge of microfinance, SILC,
Village Saving and loaning and Table banking.
·
Networking skills;
·
Strong organization skills;
·
Ability to work independently, think
innovatively and strategically, and work effectively within a team;
·
Excellent verbal and written
communication skills in English and Swahili;
·
Ability to work under pressure and
within deadlines.
Required
Qualifications and Experience:
Education
·
Diploma in Community development,
agricultural economics, Agri-business management, Business administration or
related field.
Knowledge
·
At least 2 years’ experience in
working with local community development project preferably with microfinance
institutions or USG funded project.
·
Proficiency in MS Office Suite
including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
·
Experience working with small scale
farmers and/or value-chain development, business development, entrepreneurship,
financial services with a focus on vulnerable populations with USG funded
projects.
·
Demonstrated experience in community
mobilization, organization, management and mediation among local actors and
partner capacity building
·
Demonstrated experience in training
design, delivery and mentoring in subject matter relevant to this position.
·
Must be a holder of Valid Motor cycle
Ridding licence.
Required
Travel: Travel within the project area
at least 90%
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
Position: Finance and Administration Officer
Duty Station: Rarieda Sub-County
Responsibilities:
·
In consultation with WIMA management,
setting up and monitoring the financial system in order to ensure that the
organization finances are maintained in accurate and timely manner.
·
Maintaining accounts payables and
accounts receivable systems in order to ensure complete and accurate monthly
reports
·
Managing employee files and records
to ensure complete and accurate payment of benefits and allowances.
·
Collection of data and maintaining
manual and computerized prime accounting records.
·
Preparation of monthly cash flow
statements.
·
Efficient and effective office
management services and administrative support.
·
Preparing invoices for services
rendered and Goods purchased in line with USG funded projects.
·
Maintaining up to date information on
exchange rates on behalf of the organization.
·
Administration, reconciliation and
weekly/monthly reporting to project Coordinator/Director on petty cash and all
bank accounts.
·
Manage the project finance and
oversee all local procurement ensuring that donor’s/organization’s policies are
adhered to.
·
Submit monthly returns to KRA
·
Preparing and managing cash flow
projections
·
Support Project coordinator and other
project staff in drafting budgets, preparation of field documents and
submission of field reports.
·
Implementing the organization’s
internal controls
·
Performing financial monitoring of
WIMA and its related offices.
·
Preparing regular monthly, quarterly
and annual financial reports.
Qualifications
& Experience:
·
Bachelor of Commerce- Accounting or
Finance Option from a recognized institution.
·
Holder of CPA K or equivalent
·
Registered with institute of
Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK) and registration of Accountants
Board of Kenya (RAB)
·
Have at least 3 years experience in
USG funded program.
·
Familiar with financial reporting
software’s; QuickBooks and Tally
·
Have high integrity and fulfill the
chapter 6 requirements of the Constitution of Kenya 2010.
Additional
Required Qualities:
·
Ability to work well with others in a
team environment.
·
Ability to multi-task.
·
Excellent time management skills.
·
Ability to work long hours.
·
Ability to pay attention to detail.
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
Position: Project Coordinator OVC.
Location: Rarieda Sub-County.
Purpose: The Coordinator will be responsible for providing
technical support to staff managing OVC programs in the field and ensuring
appropriate implementation as per the approved activities, support in writing
periodic reports, hold technical meetings, work with all stakeholders involved
and represent WIMA externally to appropriate forums.
To advance WIMA desires to integrate
OVC/HCBC with the ART (AIDS Relief) and other ongoing OVC-PEPFAR programs.
Ensure that the OVC/VHH integrates agriculture and microfinance to promote food
security and improve incomes.
Initiate collaborative activities
with county partners, including Ministry of Gender, Children & Social
Development, Children’s Department and other National organizations as
appropriate.
Specific
Duties and Responsibilities
·
In collaboration with the M&E
officer, use appropriate tools and mechanisms to monitor and evaluate the
progress of the set goals and objectives.
·
Visit intervention sites to provide
management and administrative support as well as advise to project staff- with
the view of improving operational aspects of the project.
·
Participate in performance evaluation
of intervention sites, identify performance gaps and recommend suitable
improvement plans.
·
Ensure strict adherence to project
plans as envisaged in WIMA guidelines, donor philosophies and in conformity
with national and international standards.
·
Organize regular implementation
review meetings with all staff and relevant stakeholders.
·
Ensure regular data quality
assessments for efficient and timely service delivery.
·
Oversee the preparation of annual
Work plan and Budget.
·
Provide technical support in the
preparation of Task orders and ensure strict adherence to the same during
project implementation.
·
Effectively and efficiently manage
project grants in accordance with the donor, GoK as well as WIMA guidelines.
·
Work with management of WIMA, key
stakeholders and OVC Technical teams to develop abstracts for sharing in
relevant fora- locally and internationally.
·
Ensure that documentation of best practices
is undertaken.
·
Supervise project staff
·
Manage and maintain WIMA resources
and equipment in the area of operation, as well as any other duty that maybe
assigned from time to time
Qualifications
·
Degree in Social Sciences, public
health or an equivalent with experience in OVC/HCBC.
·
Have solid working knowledge
(practical skills) in OVC/HCBC Programming.
·
At least 4 years experience working
in OVC project with wide coverage area funded by USG.
·
Familiarity with implementation of US
Government-funded projects.
·
Demonstrated ability to transfer
knowledge through formal and informal training.
·
Experience in staff supervision, good
coordination skills as well as the ability to work in a team.
Required
Travel: Travel within the project area
at least 90%
NB: Knowledge of the local language (Luo) is an added advantage.
How to Apply
If you meet the above requirements,
kindly send your application and address it to THE C.E.O WIMA-CBO with your
daytime contacts (cell phone number) to reach us latest Monday, 19th, March,
2018.
Email: wimawomen@gmail.com
WIMA- CBO, P.O. Box 133 Nyilima.
OR deliver to WIMA office in
Kalandini, Rarieda Sub-County, opposite AP camp.