Project Associate, Key Population (Bomet) at I Choose Life - Africa (ICL)

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the Regional Manager and will work closely with the Pillar heads and liaise with the CASCO, other government officers and stakeholders at the county and sub-county levels. He/she will be responsible for the coordination and delivery of project deliverables at the KP Drop-in Centre, integrated facilities and community programs in Bomet County.

Key duties and Responsibilities

Project Research & Design

• Provide overall coordination of the KP activities in the Drop-in Centre and integrated health facilities including peer education, outreach activities and meeting all required targets
• Offer mentorship and technical support to the key population health service providers for effective service delivery
• Ensure provision of quality clinical services at the outreach, DiCE and integrated facilities in accordance with the current clinical practices and approved national guidelines
• Provide coordination of the KP structural interventions by closely working with the County and Sub County Health Management Teams and other KP stakeholders.**

Project Financing and Sustainability

• Participate in developing project monthly budget.
• Participate in resource mobilization through idea generation and proposal development
• Participate in developing project annual budget
• Participate in ensuring donor and organizational financial procedures and systems are followed**

Project Planning

• Ensure HIV positive KPs are enrolled for care, initiated on treatment and appropriately followed up for better treatment outcomes
• Ensure an effective referral and linkage system of KPs for various services
• Guide the KP health service providers on compiling monthly data and appropriate reports
• Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all levels
• Document lessons learnt and challenges to inform program decisions
• Ensure tracking and reporting of all peer education and HIV/AIDS activities in the area, set targets, help peer educators overcome challenges experienced and note best practices

Projects Implementation and Coordination

• Responsible for ensuring that project is implemented in accordance with the contractual obligations
• Together with M&E officer, write and check activity reports to ensure that they conform to set goals and objectives
• Participate in project implementation work plans that have measurable performance indicators with all project staff
• Together with M&E officer collate and document of organizational best practices.
• Responsible in understanding and implementation of organizational deliverables
• Responsible for organizational project reports to the partners, GoK and donors as per the requirements in liaison with programs manager and M&E Officer

Project Monitoring, Evaluation and Control

• Ensure follow up on agreed activities/strategies and appropriate use of MOH reporting tools
• Supervise development and implementation of recruitment and retention strategies for program clients
• Act as the community liaison officer for the KP program
• Coordinate linkages for GBMSM in the program, track and report all programme activities

Resource Mobilization

• Taken part in resource mobilization through participation in proposal development with other program staff
• Designed, implemented and evaluated projects with an aspect of resource mobilization
• Any other duties in line with the organization Mission and Vision

Education and Training

• A diploma in a health-related course, social sciences will be an added advantage
• Valid HIV management training
• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a HIV program and or SRH
• Economic empowerment programs is an added advantage
• Experience working with Key Populations is desired
• Good oral and written communication skills (English and Swahili)
• Computer literacy in the use of MS Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is desired
• Ability to work and deliver results with minimum supervision
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team player

Experience, Skills and Abilities

• Minimum of 2 -year hands on experience in implementation of HIV prevention programs such as EBIs
• S/He should also have experience in community training and community mobilization
• Ability to work with a team, foster a team approach and incorporate capacity building activities into the program
• Excellent organizational skills, analytical and report writing skills
• Demonstrated ability to develop institutional partnerships and build networks
• Be an excellent communicator and willingness to work in a multi –sectoral team setting
• Computer literate with an ability to analyze and utilize program development gaps for decision making.