Grassroots Coordinator at Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO)

S/he will be responsible for the overall implementation and reporting of the project, at the County level.

The Coordinator will support and provide leadership for grassroots advocacy; manage, train and support citizen advocacy groups and volunteer advocates in engaging with County governments, elected leaders and stakeholders on health advocacy work at the county level.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implementing all aspects of Grassroots Advocacy Project work at the County Level,
• Analyzing county budgets documents and policies as it related to current advocacy issues at the County level as they affect health, develop and implement campaign plans.
• Coordinating the grassroots citizens and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to take advocacy actions at the County level.
• Establishing advocacy champions in the County Assemblies, the media, Civil Society and communities
• Coordinating Citizen Chapters by providing advocacy training to grassroots groups and advocates on engaging County Government, Media and elected leaders .
• Organizing regular meetings with group leaders and advocates for updates from the County.
• Creating forums for Group Leaders to share and support each other; share innovations, stay abreast of campaign plans and grassroots interests as well as facilitate communications with advocates from other Countries.
• Conducting trainings to the grassroots citizen advocates.
• Developing Media, Campaign and advocacy strategies on various health advocacy issues  in liaison with the issue analyst .
• Conducting outreach to NGOs, Unions and other organizations to encourage more citizen action and to gather intelligence on priority health issues for the County.
• Creating a bank of useful campaign-related stories and volunteer testimonials for use in media outlets.
• Developing best practice for Grass roots advocacy
• Undertake any other duty as assigned  by management  .

Qualifications

• Degree in a social sciences, Public Health or related field.
• 5 years NGO working experience in advocacy related program.
• Proven capacity to create and deliver on effective and successful advocacy projects.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, and capacity to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders, including decision makers, volunteers, media and NGO partners
• Knowledge of health programs.
• Experience in the political, citizen engagement, and legislative processes in the counties.
• Good organizational skills, outgoing and enjoys working, mentoring and motivating others.
• Experience implementing multi-faceted projects involving media engagement, policy and advocacy and engaging elected leaders.
• Must be a local residence of Vihiga County.