Center Supervisor at Matibabu Foundation college of Health Sciences

Position: Center Head / Supervisor

Reporting:   Project Manager

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.

Job Roles

The Centre Head is responsible for planning, leading and managing the performance of their team at the centers to ensure the operational targets are achieved in terms of quantity and quality.

• Help in setting up of a center. Center team building and induction of center staff.
• Leave planning, Documentation/Maintenance of Records
• File weekly/Monthly/Quarterly reports to the head office from time to time.
• Coordinate and help mobilization team to plan and implement strategies.
• Planning and organizing promotional activities like workshop, Vision screening events.Take part in village meetings, canopy meetings etc.
• Monitor and follow-up of leads generated by mobilizer.
• Ensuring minimum batch size, regular supervision for quality training and follow up of training schedule.
• Monitor and maintain quality of training being delivered as per laid down norms of VTP.
• To be responsible for achieving monthly/quarterly/yearly enrollments/training and PoS creation targets.
• Ensuring zero attrition of PoS formed in first year.Explore the local market for partnerships and market linkages.
• Coordinate with the cluster head to do the Budgeting and cost management for their center.Periodical assessment of students to analyze effectiveness of training, manage/analyze & control student attritions.
• Forecast manpower requirements at center levels.Developing the team and keep them aligned to the mission and vision of VTP.
• Lead a mixed team (sales, trainers, admin) of 5-6 members at center level, lay down targets for center and team and drive the entire team to achieve targets by putting in place effective strategies.
• Counselling students in matters such as vocational choices and entrepreneurship skills and behaviors.Maintain close bonding with students to provide guidance & mentorship to students.
• Coordinating with RCD team for content development.
• Monthly visits to centers and Eye Rafiki Technicians (ERT) in order to manage/analyze & suggest betterment plans to center teams.
• Keeping a close vigilance on profitability of each center.
• Should be at the top of the things with respect to day to day functioning of centers and follow up on stream follow up of reporting system

Qualifications

• Graduation in any stream from any recognized university
• Basic computer skills like MS Word, Power Point and MS Excel.
• Should have minimum experience of 2 – 3 years as a Center Manager/ branch manager.

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.