Twaweza, a dynamic East
Africa wide organization, is looking for a competent, effective and energetic Assistant Program
Officer
Job Title: Assistant Program Officer
Job Title: Assistant Program Officer
Cluster: Data and Voice
Salary Grade: 4
Reports to: Senior Data Analyst
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Overall Responsibility: You will support the
Director to implement the overall plan and budget for the Uwezo Regional
Office.
You will support the Director
to assure standards related to Partnerships, Training, and communication, and
lead the review of all materials related to these standards.
Specific Responsibilities:
1. Support
the Director to assure quality of the partnership policies and standards,
including emerging activities that leverage on Uwezo’s partners and
infrastructure
2. Support
the Director to coordinate the Uwezo training process across the three countries,
including timely revision of training manuals and workbooks, and engagement of
the East Africa trainers.
3. Maintain
records and produce quarterly and annual review reports on the adherence of
countries to the policies and standards related to partnerships and training
4. Support
the Director in maintaining partner data and information, including the
conducting of periodic analysis of partnerships data for the production of both
internal and external communication products
5. Support
the Director to assure quality of all publications originating from the
Directorate of Data and Voice, including proof checks for website materials
from country offices and any other publications.
6. Serve
as the Uwezo website desk officer; ensuring that materials are sourced from
country teams, and in collaboration with the PPE team, updated on the website
7. Support
the Director in ensuring increased visibility of Uwezo, through the production
of creative media products, and maintaining a regional record on Uwezo’s
coverage and communication at all levels – sub-national, national, regional and
global. Produce monthly Uwezo coverage dashboards in collaboration with the
Uwezo Country Communications Officers.
8. Support
the Director in ensuring that all Uwezo products are well-packaged for both
internal and external communication.
General Responsibilities:
1. Successfully
implement above responsibilities and assigned activities in work plans and
budgets, consistent with Twaweza Policies.
2. Contribute
effectively to planning, monitoring, reporting and information dissemination of
Uwezo’s/Twaweza’s work.
3. Collaborate
with Twaweza staff across units and countries in a spirit of mutual respect and
cooperation to get things done.
4. Communicate
your work through active use of internal platform (SalesForce), electronic
calendar (Gcal) and being accessible on electronic chat (Skype) as per Twaweza
requirements.
5. Participate
actively in organization-wide learning and other joint activities.
6. Comply
with and foster adherence to the established Twaweza values, policies,
regulations, guidelines and procedures.
7. Undertake
any other lawful tasks as may be assigned by your Supervisor and/or Director of
Data and Voice.
Core Qualifications:
1. A
degree in education, communication or social sciences.
2. Minimum
3 years relevant working experience, especially in development communication
3. Excellent
writing skills in English and Kiswahili, with proof of publications in media or
other platforms
4. Ability
to conduct simple quantitative and qualitative analyses, using any basic
software
5. Keen
eye in editing written communication products; experience in document review.
6. Presence
in social media, and enthusiastic in learning new ways of presenting and
communicating evidence.
7. Excellent
networking and human relations’ skills, and ability to deliver quality results
on time.
8. Excellent
skills in Excel and experience in working with small databases.
9. Keen
attention to details, and well organized.
10. Curiosity
and passion to learn, be innovate, creative and get things done.
Changes and Amendments: This job description
may be amended by Twaweza after consultation with the employee and the
supervisor.
Application process:
To apply for this position,
please submit your CV (max 4 pages) tojobs@twaweza.org, including a cover letter
explaining your interests/motivations to work for Twaweza, and 2 samples of
your written work and names of 3 referees, in MS Word or PDF file.
In the subject of your
email write your name, the position you are applying for and country
Deadline for the submission is 15th January 2017.