Position Title: Project Outreach Associate
Reports To: Project Manager
Department: Programs
County: Kisii
The organization works closely with
the government, universities, and communities and has programs in over 210
institutions (tertiary institutions and high schools) across 23 Counties in
Kenya and reaches over 1 million youth annually with Behaviour Change
Communication messages.
Vision & Mission: ICL's vision is to see a ‘Healthy Africa, Empowered People!’ The organization seeks to support to the implementation of Vision 2030 through the cascading it to the Counties.
ICL's mission is to create a movement
of individuals that enhance the quality of life for communities through Health
initiatives, Economic empowerment, Academic & career mentoring, - improved
Leadership & governance and Institutional Strengthening (HEAL&I).
About the Project: Jiimarishe Musikhjälpen project contributes towards sustained behaviour change in sexual behaviour among the vulnerable teens.
The aim is to reduce the rate of new
HIV infections among the adolescent aged 15-19 years in Kisii County through
behavioural interventions that increase levels of risk perception on HIV/AIDS,
promote abstinence to delay sexual debut of youths and strengthen county
coordination mechanism for harmonious implementation of HIV/AIDS related
programs within county schools
Job Purpose: To contribute towards a sustained change in sexual behaviour of vulnerable teens through training, mentorship, outreach, and behavioural as well as structural interventions.
In addition, support counties in the
actualization of their County Strategic plans aligned to Vision 2030.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project implementation and
training.
- Assist in the planning, organizing and
servicing conferences, seminars and training workshops.
- Assist in office administrative issues,
particularly pertaining to records, payments and other key issues.
- Assist in Training Health Champion, teachers
on integrated life skills and parents on Parent- child communication
- Work closely with students to identify and
train Health champions from interventions schools
- Spearhead establishment of Health clubs and
health club activities per term
- Work closely with Heath Champions to plan and
organize thematic events
- Assist in identification of university mentors
to train health champions
- Participate in project, organizational and
institutional meetings take notes/minutes and work harmoniously with other
stakeholders.
- Help confirm and arrange future meeting times.
2. Communication
- Identify and develop Project human success
stories to share on the organizations social media and partners.
- Work with project team to develop picture
speaks and news letter for various activities
- Work with the project communication officer to
develop project communication materials.
- Work with Project Communication Officer in
Project and organization Brand enhancement.
3. Resource Mobilization
- Take part in resource mobilization through
participation in proposal development with other program staff.
- Conduct donor research via the Internet and
other means to assist the project team in identifying and targeting donors
and funding opportunities.
- Help in selling organizational Products
4. Project Monitoring &
Evaluation
- Assisting the project team in development of
databases and data collection tools for the project.
- Help in consolidation of project data
- Keep records for data collected and reported.
- Ensure evaluations of trainings and project
activities are conducted and reports written and submitted to the
assistant project officer.
- Assisting in preparing activity reports and
monthly reports in time for team reflection meetings.
Education, Experience, Skills and
Abilities
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences
- A minimum of one year of professional
experience
- Should be Computer Literate, work well with MS
Word and MS Excel and Internet research methods
- Highly motivated to learn and work in a
high-performance environment.
- Willingness to learn, tackle challenges and
seek creative solutions in everyday assignments.
- Demonstrates well-developed interpersonal
skills, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Must be able to meet urgent and last-minute
deadlines, work with grace under pressure, and function well in a
high-performance team.
Application and contact detail
Please send your application and
clearly mark the subject as outlined to hr@ichooselife.or.ke to reach us by
30th March 2015.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
I Choose Life- Africa is an equal
opportunity employer.