Project Assistant- Malaria (Kisii) at Catholic Medical Mission Board’s (CMMB)

Responsibilities 
Project Management: 

• Participate in planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
• Review and track progress of project implementation and utilization of project resources, using participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation related to project monitoring and implementation, including up-to-date performance data on the malaria indicators being tracked by the project. 
• Ensure a working environment of mutual trust, respect, and care with other staff, encouraging effective teamwork with staff members and partners.
• Identification, recruitment, and retention of beneficiariesBudget and Financial Management: 
• Ensure that project activities comply with CMMB financial guidelines, policies, procedures, and regulations.
• In collaboration with the finance teams and supporting the project officers, ensure timely payments of project beneficiaries and provide liquidation reports.
• Participate in the preparation of annual project budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets.Monitoring, Accountability, Evaluation and Learning: 
• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track project progress on project implementation.
• Promote innovative/effective methods towards achievement of project objectives.
• Support documentation processes of project success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and other project innovations and learnings.
• Mentor the community health volunteers towards implementation of community case management of malaria and malaria in pregnancy interventions.
• Support implementation of community-based project activities to ensure adherence to set quality standards. 
• Monitor the performance of community health volunteers, community health units and continuously mentor them as needed.
• Work with the Project and M&E Officers to prepare donor project narrative reports, collect monthly and quarterly performance data, as well as other reports needed/required.
• Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with key stakeholders on project progress and challenges.Partnership: 
• `Engage stakeholders at all stages of the project cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of projectapproaches and interventions.
• Attending malaria and community health services related technical working groups and stakeholder meetings at the county, sub county and community.

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Community Health, or related field
• You have at least 3 years in Community Health work within a public health focused Non-GovernmentalOrganization.
• You have experience in implementing Health interventions among various sub populations including pregnant women.
• You understand the community case management of malaria and malaria in pregnancy interventions
• You have impressive community mobilization experience
• You have an extensive understanding of the Community Health Strategy and working with the various structures under the same.
• Experience in the implementation of Global Fund Malaria Grants is an added advantage
• Your analytical and writing skills are very good
• You have experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel and have data analysis software skills
• You are comfortable working for a faith-based organization.
• You believe in CMMB, where we are going, and what we can do together to achieve Healthier Lives Worldwide