The National Council Churches of Kenya (NCCK), an umbrella organisation for Protestant Churches and Christian Organisations registered in Kenya, is seeking to recruit a highly skilled, experienced and results oriented professional. Applications from interested and suitably qualified candidates to fill in the following positions:
Job Title: Household Economic
Strengthening (HES) Officer
Supervisor: USAID Tumikia Mtoto Project
Coordinator
Duty Station: Thika
Job Purpose:
To provide Leadership and Coordination in
Implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of Household Economic
Empowerment program to promote OVC household resilience and graduation as guided
by the case plans. The position holder reports to the project Coordinator and
will be in charge of supervising the Field Agent Supervisors (FAS) and
Community Based Trainers.
Duties and
Responsibilities
- Ensure prudent designing,
planning of appropriate HES interventions and utilization of project
resources for OVC effective households economic strengthening
interventions
- Promote cohesive and
collaborative working between HES workforce and other project components;
case managers, case workers and caregivers
- Liasing with the Project
Coordinator, NCCK management and USAID Tumikia HES point person to
identify and facilitate effective delivery of impactful HES interventions
for resilience building and graduation of OVC households while paying
fidelity to donor and stakeholder expectations
- Act as the key focal person in
management of HES tracking systems including SAVIX used in tracking
progress of HES interventions
- Liaise with case managers and
Data assistants to ensure HES data is appropriately captured and reported
on CPMIS
- Document and share HES
success/significant change stories to promote learning
- Profile OVC caregivers based on
their Vulnerability category and case plans to ensure provision of
appropriate empowerment packages to achieve sustainable resilience and
graduation
- Provide ongoing training,
mentorship and supervision of HES workforce including FAS and Community
Business Trainers (CBT) to promote understanding and fidelity to project
implementation of core HES models and approaches; Food & Nutrition
Security, local value chains, Youth economic empowerment, microenterprise
development, savings for transformation (S4T), youth economic empowerment
and social protection
- Facilitate the HES workforce to
cascade the capacity to OVC households engaged in various Household
Economic Strengthening initiatives
- Promote opportunities for
continuous learning and reflection by the HES workforce and other project
staff
- Support the HES workforce to
promote school based agricultural enterprises in schools with significant
OVC presence.
- Target older youth from OVC
households who are out of school and support uptake of marketable
vocational skills training, apprenticeships and appropriate economic
strengthening initiatives.
- Provide ongoing training,
mentorship and supervision of HES workforce including FAS and Community
Business Trainers (CBT) to promote understanding and fidelity to project
implementation of core HES models and approaches; Food & Nutrition
Security, local value chains, Youth economic empowerment, microenterprise
development, savings for transformation (S4T), youth economic empowerment
and social protection
- Facilitate the HES workforce to
cascade the capacity to OVC households engaged in various Household
Economic Strengthening initiatives
- Promote opportunities for
continuous learning and reflection by the HES workforce and other project
staff
- Support the HES workforce to
promote school based agricultural enterprises in schools with significant
OVC presence.
- Target older youth from OVC
households who are out of school and support uptake of marketable
vocational skills training, apprenticeships and appropriate economic
strengthening initiatives
Requirements for
Appointment
- Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness
Management, Agricultural Economics, or other relevant agriculture
discipline, Business Administration and management, Economics, Community
Development or equivalent degree or with at least one-year experience or a
Diploma in the stated Fields with over 3 years’ of relevant HES experience
- Over one-year experience for
degree holder or at least 3 years working experience for Diploma holders
implementing Household Economic Strengthening f.
- Experience in undertaking
economic empowerment work among disadvantaged rural households.
- Excellent financial management
skills and budgeting.
- Excellent donor report writing
and presentation skills
- Strong negotiation and engagement
skills
- Community mobilization and
lobbying skills.
- Good facilitation skills
- Able to deliver capacity building
for staff and project stakeholders
How to Apply
Interested candidates who meet the above
requirements are requested to fill the online job application form not
later than 5.00 pm on February 17, 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
Please note that NCCK does NOT charge any fee
whatsoever for application, processing, interviewing or securing employment.