Household Economic Strengthening (HES) Officer at National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK)

 Job Purpose:

To provide Leadership and Coordination in Implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of Household Economic Empowerment program to promote OVC household resilience and graduation as guided by the case plans. The position holder reports to the project Coordinator and will be in charge of supervising the Field Agent Supervisors (FAS) and Community Based Trainers.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure prudent designing, planning of appropriate HES interventions and utilization of project resources for OVC effective households economic strengthening interventions
• Promote cohesive and collaborative working between HES workforce and other project components; case managers, case workers and caregivers
• Liasing with the Project Coordinator, NCCK management and USAID Tumikia HES point person to identify and facilitate effective delivery of impactful HES interventions for resilience building and graduation of OVC households while paying fidelity to donor and stakeholder expectations
• Act as the key focal person in management of HES tracking systems including SAVIX used in tracking progress of HES interventions
• Liaise with case managers and Data assistants to ensure HES data is appropriately captured and reported on CPMIS
• Document and share HES success/significant change stories to promote learning
• Profile OVC caregivers based on their Vulnerability category and case plans to ensure provision of appropriate empowerment packages to achieve sustainable resilience and graduation
• Provide ongoing training, mentorship and supervision of HES workforce including FAS and Community Business Trainers (CBT) to promote understanding and fidelity to project implementation of core HES models and approaches; Food & Nutrition Security, local value chains, Youth economic empowerment, microenterprise development, savings for transformation (S4T), youth economic empowerment and social protection
• Facilitate the HES workforce to cascade the capacity to OVC households engaged in various Household Economic Strengthening initiatives
• Promote opportunities for continuous learning and reflection by the HES workforce and other project staff
• Support the HES workforce to promote school based agricultural enterprises in schools with significant OVC presence.
• Target older youth from OVC households who are out of school and support uptake of marketable vocational skills training, apprenticeships and appropriate economic strengthening initiatives.
• Provide ongoing training, mentorship and supervision of HES workforce including FAS and Community Business Trainers (CBT) to promote understanding and fidelity to project implementation of core HES models and approaches; Food & Nutrition Security, local value chains, Youth economic empowerment, microenterprise development, savings for transformation (S4T), youth economic empowerment and social protection
• Facilitate the HES workforce to cascade the capacity to OVC households engaged in various Household Economic Strengthening initiatives
• Promote opportunities for continuous learning and reflection by the HES workforce and other project staff
• Support the HES workforce to promote school based agricultural enterprises in schools with significant OVC presence.
• Target older youth from OVC households who are out of school and support uptake of marketable vocational skills training, apprenticeships and appropriate economic strengthening initiatives

Requirements for Appointment

• Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Economics, or other relevant agriculture discipline, Business Administration and management, Economics, Community Development or equivalent degree or with at least one-year experience or a Diploma in the stated Fields with over 3 years’ of relevant HES experience
• Over one-year experience for degree holder or at least 3 years working experience for Diploma holders implementing Household Economic Strengthening f.
• Experience in undertaking economic empowerment work among disadvantaged rural households.
• Excellent financial management skills and budgeting.
• Excellent donor report writing and presentation skills
• Strong negotiation and engagement skills
• Community mobilization and lobbying skills.
• Good facilitation skills
• Able to deliver capacity building for staff and project stakeholders