Education Sports and Social Protection Officer at Turkana County Government

The overall responsibility of the Education Sports and Social Protection Officer is technically lead and oversee social protection work in an Economic Inclusion and Social Protection under KISEDP II, the Education Sports and Social Protection Officer is to provide strategic and technical contribution in the day to day implementation to ensure sound deliverables of all social protection tasks within the project context and design and closely work with other relevant institution to enhance programmatic integration and complementarities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Implementing Education laws, policies and regulations;
• Implementing approved education and sports development plans, strategies, and council decisions;
• Providing technical and professional advice and organizing and facilitating teachers’ training programmes;
• Coordinating school inspection and sports programmes and maintaining an updated teachers’ personnel data bank;
• Support to engage networks and stakeholders across programs and partners to conduct an assessment to determine the opportunities and challenges around refuges and host communities’ access and right to work;
• Contribute and support the production of communication materials to support in dissemination of findings from the assessment/or advocacy for refugees’ and host communities access to work and provide refugees and host communities platform to share their experience and solution,
• Support to conduct a rapid assessment of barriers and opportunities for refugees ‘and host communities’ access services;
• Support the launch of campaign to raise awareness of refugees' and host communities rights and ways to access social protection schemes;
• Promote sector leaming and knowledge management in the protection as linked to social protection through collating findings/ information collected from the field as well as routine monitoring to draw lessons;
• Contribute in design and development of sector concept notes and proposals;
• Submit timely and high-quality activity and donor and internal progress reports;
• Lead social protection sector in project kick-off, review and project closure meetings including periodic program review and planning meetings and external meetings as often and as requested by the supervisor;
• Conduct progressive protection monitoring and follow ups to check on progress of target communities and individuals with various individual protection;
• Contribute to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including urban refugee and host community members and leaders NGOs, UN agencies and coordination on response activities;
• Actively participate and maintain a strong working relationship with social protection cluster and related working groups to support the provision of quality services to persons of concern;
• Experience working and knowledge in urban displacement responses and in multi- sectoral interventions including working with diverse communities and
• Perform any other duty assigned from time to time

Requirements for Appointment

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences and related fields, project planning or any other development related fields.
• Masters in the same fields is an added advantage.
• Proficiency in computer application;
• Attended Senior Management Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks or equivalent qualification from recognized institution;
• Certify chapter six (6) of the Constitution;
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding for county goals, policies, objectives and the ability to relate them to the administration function.