Project Outreach Associate at I Choose Life - Africa (ICL)

Job Purpose:

• To contribute towards a sustained change in sexual behaviour of vulnerable teens in high schools 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.

Job Key responsibilities

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 Peer educators, teachers on integrated life skills and parents on Parent- child communication
• Work closely with students to identify and train peer educators from interventions schools
• Spearhead establishment of BCCG clubs and BCCG club activities per term
• Work closely with Peer educators to plan and organize thematic events
• Assist in identification of university mentors to train peer educators
• Participate in project, organizational and institutional meetings take notes/minutes and work harmoniously with other stakeholders.
• Help confirm and arrange future meeting times.

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.

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

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 for Project Outreach Associate Job

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences
• A minimum of one year of professional experience in a project implementing Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) activities.
• Experience working with the Ministry of Health will be an added advantage.
• 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