Closing date: August 20, 2021
Established in 1984 in the UK, Islamic Relief is an international NGO
seeking to promote sustainable economic and social development by working with
local communities through relief and development activities regardless of race,
color and religion, and without expecting anything in return
IR started operations in Kenya in 1993 on orphan’s sponsorship programme through a local CBO in Mandera District, Northern Kenya.
It opened its fully fledged office in March in 2006 at the height of drought in the Horn of Africa. Since then, IR has been providing humanitarian and development assistance to vulnerable communities. Over these years it has implemented various development and relief activities in Mandera. This has remarkably changed the lives of the vulnerable and disadvantaged communities. In January 2010, IRK extended its operation to Wajir County, neighbouring Mandera, in January 2012 expanded to Garissa and Dadaab, and in October 2017 opened a programme office in Kilifi County.Islamic Relief Kenya is currently focusing on three major themes:
Sustainable Community Empowerment, Food security and livelihoods, Disaster Risk
reduction (DRR); and Inclusive and protection
The orphan families economic strengthening Project is an economic
empowerment project that will be implemented using evidence- based best
practices and it will focus on 500 orphans and their households for financial
inclusion. The project envisions to transform these ultra-poor households from
local communities through provision of seed money to start small businesses
scale and create alternative economic opportunity that will elevate them from
poverty index. The project will target the existing beneficiaries under Orphan
Sponsorship Programme (OSP) by forming a vibrant beneficiary’s self-help groups
and training them on entrepreneurship skills and supporting them with capital
to back-up their business ideas.
Islamic Relief Kenya in pursuit to support and strengthen its operations,
seeks to employ motivated, hardworking, and pro-active individuals to fill in
the following position.
Title: Child
welfare Interns/Volunteers x3 (Garissa 1, Mandera 1 and Nairobi 1)
Reporting To: Child Welfare Officers
Base Location: Garissa, Mandera and Nairobi 100%
Overall Responsibility
Under the supervision of the child welfare officer the intern will be
responsible for assisting in the implementation of child welfare activities in
Mandera County working with a dynamic team in the field he/she will ensure that
core commitments to children are upheld in accordance with policies and
procedures established by the Islamic Relief and other international Laws
protecting children from harm and abuse.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Mobilize
the orphan beneficiaries during payments, and collection of annual
progress reports.
- Assist in
development and timely submission of the orphan progress report.
- Support in
facilitating orphans’ quarterly payments and passing extra gifts to
orphans.
- Document
and share success stories/case studies on quarterly basis.
- Conduct
routine orphan family visits to check and monitor children’s education
progress.
- Assist to
collect photos for the baseline data for orphan bio data, progress reports
and other periodic reports.
- Facilitate
account opening for newly sponsored orphans.
- Prepare
and share orphan family visits reports.
- Maintain
sponsored Orphans record in both hard and soft copies.
- Assist in
the identification, registration of new orphans fitting IRK sponsorship
criteria.
- Compile
orphans’ drawings\letter scan and share with the respective donors.
- Conduct
child protection sensitization during the orphan home visits.
- Deliver
health and nutrition sensitization messages to orphan families.
- Assist in
linking older orphans and guardians to polytechnic for acquiring life
skills.
- Perform
other related duties as may be required from time to time.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Diploma in
social sciences or development studies. Project management, Business
management, sociology, and other related fields
- Knowledge
of Community Development, Skills in documentation community Facilitation
networking and partnership skills
- Holds
personal values ethics and attitudes which are in line with principles or
values of child protection
- Project
Management skills /Report writing are added advantage
- Good
interpersonal relationship, conflict Management skills
- Fluency in
spoken and written English, knowledge of the local languages is an added
advantage.
- Proficiency
in computer applications especially MS word, MS excel, MS Access Power
point
- Ability to
work on your own initiative as well as a part of a team.**
Competencies/Skills
- Good
communication and presentation skills.
- Passion
for work and Honesty
· Ability to quickly learn new systems, processes, and procedures.
· Ability to work under pressure and meet strict project deadlines.
· Team player.
· Ability to identify and solve problems.
· Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment
How to Apply
Please send us your
cover letter and detailed CV, including your qualifications, experience, names
and addresses of three referees, a working e-mail address and daytime telephone
contacts. The forwarding e-mail and cover letter must clearly indicate the position
title on the subject line. Send your application to Recruitment.irk@islamic-relief.or.ke by Friday 20th August
2021.Please
note that this is an urgent recruitment, shortlisting will be done on a rolling
basis
