Girls Empowerment Mentors at CFK Africa

Responsibilities

• Recruit safe spaces for adolescents/teenage mothers.
• Offer mentorship sessions by providing adolescents and teenage mothers with information and guidance that helps them make good decisions.
• Conduct monthly home visits for the target beneficiaries.
• Serve as liaison between mentees and caregivers.
• Assist in planning of major girls and women events.
• Advocate for girls’ education and girls’ rights; encourage the girls, their parents, and community members to promote girls’ education.
• Promote girl’s self-esteem and confidence.
• Help girls cope with changes at school, at home, in the community or with their personal or physical development.
• Willing and flexible to attend beneficiaries’ concerns outside the safe space hours.
• Participate in community activities.

Qualifications

• 22-27 years old
• Lives within the same community.
• Is enrolled/ completed a higher institutional learning, preferably social work and community development.
• Be an upstanding member of the community.
• Enthusiastic about working with fellow girls and boys.
• Possess leadership skills.
• Able to dedicate 3-4 days a week to the project.
• Basic knowledge on reproductive health and life-skills preferred.
• Out of school mentors -Be a mother having either given birth or gotten pregnant while in school and still managed to complete her high school education and completed any higher education.