Mobilization & Recruitment Officer at Matibabu Foundation college of Health Sciences

Reporting: Centre Head / Supervisor

Territory: All pilot districts in the particular geography

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.

Mobilization & Recruitment Officer Job Roles            

A mobilizer is responsible for spreading the mission and vision of Partner, connecting with the communities and mobilizing the less educated and less skilled people as per the mobilization plan laid out for each center for ensuring the achievement of operational targets in terms of quantity and quality and viability of the center.

• Facilitate mobilization of students and ability to connect with communities and opinion makers in villages/towns.
• Identify catchment areas and deploy resources accordingly.
• Thorough understanding of vision and mission Partner and spreading amongst the communities in their areas of responsibility.
• Complete knowledge of demographic details of their areas of operations.
• Assist center head in organizing special events and other promotional activities.
• Hold community meets, canopy meets and other mobilization procedures as per laid down SOP.
• Maintain a database of leads generated and daily conversions.
• Market scanning and gathering information of competitors.
• Interact with local NGOs/Govt. officials etc. to strengthen the mobilization efforts.
• Ensuring minimum batch size and achieving monthly enrollment targets.
• Update MIS on a regular basis for real time data flow.
• Update data on Lead generations and conversions as per the laid down MIS process.

Qualifications for the Mobilization & Recruitment Officer Job:

• Graduation in any stream from any recognized university
• Basic computer skills like MS Word, Power Point and MS Excel.
• Minimum 1 – 2 years’ experience.
• Experience in community mobilization/social development work. Preferably from Micro finance sales background.
• Fluent communications in local language (read and write).

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.