Save the Children UK is a leading international
child rights organization, fighting to improve the lives of children in the UK
and 50 countries around the world.
Together with children, we are helping to build a better world for present and future generations by making a reality of children’s rights.
The Kenya Country Programme currently has field sites in Wajir East and South, Mandera West and Central, Eldoret and Dadaab refugee camp and is reaching beneficiaries through Health, Nutrition, FSL, WASH, Child Protection and Education.
We are seeking qualified candidates to fill the following two open positions:
1. Health & Nutrition Promotion Coordinator Together with children, we are helping to build a better world for present and future generations by making a reality of children’s rights.
The Kenya Country Programme currently has field sites in Wajir East and South, Mandera West and Central, Eldoret and Dadaab refugee camp and is reaching beneficiaries through Health, Nutrition, FSL, WASH, Child Protection and Education.
We are seeking qualified candidates to fill the following two open positions:
(6 Months contract based in Wajir South)
Job Purpose
The Health and Nutrition promotion Coordinator will be responsible for equipping Wajir South community members with health and nutrition promotive information and influencing adoption of appropriate behaviour change.
S/He will build capacity of people by disseminating knowledge to increase control over and increase their own health.
Key Responsibilities
1. Conduct community mobilizations and sensitization for health education
- Carry
out an assessment to identify health promotion /behavior change needs in
the community.
- In
liaison with SCUK health and nutrition staff, MOH staff, CHWs and
community, members, review the health education strategy and come up with
a BCC/IEC strategy for health and nutrition programme.
- Lead
development of health and nutrition promotion messages to pass to the
community members and other target groups( mothers, fathers, youth, school
going children etc)
- Develop
Health and Nutrition Information, Education and Communication Workplan and
lead in its implementation by Planning and coordinating the programs with
community groups.
- Capitalize
on lessons learnt on Public Health Promotions in the community and
community health groups and use the findings to feed back to the programs
under implementation.
- Ensuring
that school health education and promotion and the community wide health
education sessions are to the Save the Children standard.
2. Capacity building of the health and
nutrition promoters, community health education facilitators and other
community volunteers
- Participate
in the community health education trainings and other work shops.
- Continuous
on job trainings of the health and nutrition promoters, Health and
nutrition outreach teams.
- Ensuring
the training needs of the sanitation groups and sanitation committees and
carry out the appropriate training (if need be on case by case).
- Ensuring
the follow up of the community volunteers on the developed action plans.
3. Capacity building of the community health
groups and breastfeeding support groups
- Participate
in the development of the appropriate health messages and in the training
of the community health groups and the Mother to Mother breastfeeding
support groups.
- Draw
an action plan after every health education session
- Do
follow up of the beneficiaries up to their homes to ensure that they
practice good hygiene practices agreed during the health education
sessions (case by case).
- Involve
community own resource persons in the health education sessions
- Ensuring
the pre-test and post assessment of the community Health indicators and
give the appropriate advice on the way forward.
5. Integration of health and nutrition
promotion into other Save the Children programmes and partners interventions
- Collaborate
with the Health and Nutrition Team in discussions and integration of
health education into nutritional activities.
- Collaborate
with the WASH team in discussions and integration of health education into
WASH activities
- Collaborate
with the Food Security team in discussions and integration of health
education into Food Security activities
- Collaboration
with the MOH other Partner INGOs, NGOs and the UN working in the district.
- Facilitate
and ensure all communication materials are pre-tested for relevance and
are appropriate to targeted communities.
5. Monitoring and evaluation
- Follow
up with the various community groups, in their communities and assess for
behavior change.
- Do
follow up and monitoring and evaluation of the save the children health
education and Nutrition activities.
- Fill
in the developed monitoring and evaluation tools accordingly.
- Ensure
that the data you obtain from the field is what is actually existing and
inline with the health and nutrition promoters’ data.
6. Reporting
- Write
weekly plans and weekly reports on health education and Nutrition
activities.
- Write
monthly reports outlining the achievements and challenges and capitalising
on the outcomes achieved and documenting the lessons learnt.
Required skills
- Degree/Higher
National Diploma in public health / Health Education and promotion/
Community health/social sciences with at least two years experience with
an international relief humanitarian agency in designing and implementing
successful BCC program.
- Demonstrated
experience in community development work and participatory approaches.
- Demonstrated
experience in training and facilitation, development of IEC materials and
BCC methodologies.
- Excellent
computer skills, willingness to work in difficult setting and demonstrated
report writing skills.
- Demonstrated
experience in training and facilitation, development of IEC materials and
BCC methodologies
- Excellent
computer skills, willingness to work in difficult setting and demonstrated
report writing skills.
- Good
communication skills, particularly with children and mothers and general
community members.
- Organisation,
initiative, tidiness and courtesy
- Good
level of spoken and written English and Somali.
2. Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – Dadaab
Area Office
(6 Months contract based in Dadaab)
Job Purpose
The incumbent will participate in assessments, set up quality, accountability and M&E systems, help programmes increase quality of evidence, promote data-driven decision making, as well as wider participation of children and other groups of beneficiaries in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes and projects, will also be involved in building staff and partners’ capacity for better M&E and accountability to beneficiaries, as well as contribute to the agency-wide learning.
Key Accountabilities
(6 Months contract based in Dadaab)
Job Purpose
The incumbent will participate in assessments, set up quality, accountability and M&E systems, help programmes increase quality of evidence, promote data-driven decision making, as well as wider participation of children and other groups of beneficiaries in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes and projects, will also be involved in building staff and partners’ capacity for better M&E and accountability to beneficiaries, as well as contribute to the agency-wide learning.
Key Accountabilities
- Work
with the Area office Programme Manager, M&E Coordinator and project
staff to design, direct and evaluate all project supported M&E and
accountability activities.
- Ensure
that appropriate and proven monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are built
into all project work plans and that the information is properly
collected, analyzed and reported in a timely manner.
- Monitor
and document the progress of programme activities against agreed
indicators and the impact of programmes to inform overall programme
strategy.
- Manage
the complaints and response mechanism in the assigned area and make sure
that complaints are logged and addressed in a professional and timely
manner.
- Undertake
routine field visits to support monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment
and accountability processes.
- Work
with project staff to ensure accountability systems are in place and
engage with beneficiaries and stakeholders in evaluations, impact
assessments and research.
- Assist
with programme level M&E & Accountability capacity building.
- Locate,
document and disseminate project & programme learning and best
practice.
- Ensure
that the monitoring results are disseminated and reviewed regularly with
programme staff to ensure that the team has the required and appropriate
data for decision making and improved program design and implementation.
- Ensure
that project plans, annual work plans, country plans and budgets provide
proper support to the monitoring, evaluation and research efforts.
- Prepare
reports as required on the programming activities for internal, donor and
beneficiary community reporting.
- Work
appropriately with confidential and sensitive child protection
information.
- Promote
and enable child-lead and participatory monitoring and evaluation.
- Ensure
and support integration and implementation of M&E and Accountability
systems that are compliant with the Humanitarian Accountability
Partnership International (HAP-I) Benchmarks, and other relevant quality
standards (e.g. SPHERE, INEE).
Person Specification:
Essential
Essential
- University
Degree in Statistics/Computer Science/Mathematics/Population Studies or
related field.
- At
least two (2) years experience of working on M & E systems, preferably
with International NGO’s or UN agencies.
- Experience
and knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and needs/impact assessment
methodologies (PRA/PLA, RRA).
- Computer
literacy, particularly in the use of MS Access, Ms Excel, SPSS, Epi Info,
Stata, SAS.
- Proven
data analysis (Qualitative and Quantitative) and report writing skills.
- Skills
in designing and implementing information management and performance
measurement frameworks.
- Strong
interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to work under
pressure.
- Proven
analytical and problem solving skills.
- Experience
with statistics, research methodology, data collection and analysis.
- Excellent
communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English and
Kiswahili.
- Commitment
to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
- Must
be able to work in teams. Must be flexible and able to synthesize
information quickly.
- Must
have knowledge of appropriate indicators for child rights programs.
Desirable
- Previous
experience working in Child Protection.
- Understanding
of the cultural setup of the community at field level.
- Experience
in project and grants management
Head of Human Resources,
Save the Children UK, Kenya Programme
E-mail: jobskenya@scuk.or.ke
not later than 23rd September, 2011.
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