Assistant Trainer- Optometry at Matibabu Foundation college of Health Sciences

Reporting: Centre Supervisor

Project Brief:  Promoting affordable vision correction services to rural population of Kenya:   Uncorrected vision is the world’s most widespread disability and effect 2.5 billion people, 90% of whom live in developing countries.

By training unemployed/ under employed youth to become primary vision care providers known as Eye Rafiki, this partnership creates affordable vision care services (correction of refraction and referral service) for up to8 million people estimated to be living with URE, low income customers in specific rural and peri-urban areas in Kenya.

NVG &Matibabu Foundation will manage the initiative.

Roles 

The trainer role will be responsible for planning and delivering the course content to the students to ensure that the learning objectives are met and providing support in mobilization, placements and maintaining training data on software.

• Understand the course content, plan and deliver it to the students within a given time frame.
• Encourage individual learning through clear communication and effective use of learning aids during the session.
• Assisting Content Development team in developing the course content and assessment of the student.
• Conduct periodical assessments of the students to ascertain that required standards have been achieved.
• Engage with students to minimize dropouts & active conversion all enrolments.
• Design & deliver training to students &ER staff on NVG products & Refraction process.
• To train students on all edging fitting of spectacles.
• Monitor the learning progress of students & if required modify classes for best results.
• Timely submission of training, sales & V.S.E Reports.
• Counseling students on entrepreneurship skills.
• Interact with walk-ins candidates for counselling at the center.
• Conduct on Job Training for ER during field visits.
• Provide feedback to the students about their performance and counsel them on a regular basis for their learning and growth.
• Preparing training calendar and deliver the training with in certain time period and complete the training of batch according to the time frame.
• Assist in mobilizing students and connecting with the communities and opinion makers in villages/towns as and when required.
• Planning and organizing promotional activities like workshop, eye camp.

Job Qualifications:            

• Having a certificate/ diploma in optometry
• Basic computer skills like MS Word, Power Point and MS Excel.
• Duration & nature of past experience required (Minimal Required)
• Should have minimum experience of 1 – 2 years

Preferred:          

• Should be hailing from the intended state / geography preferably close to the HQ working locations, however this may not be essential for deserving candidates.