Project Officer at Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT)

REF NO: PO/ARPA/07/2022 

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES.

•  support the implementation of ARPA project activities in Mombasa County, ensure strong linkages with respective County Department of Health and other key stakeholders.
• Support the project coordinator to Provide timely inputs to ARPA USAID Tujitegemee project planning, monitoring, reporting, and budgeting processes.
• Support project staff and partners in developing project work plans and technical guidance and procedure documents as necessary.
• Monitor populations reached from vaccine demand creation activities, provide guidance in increasing vaccine reach to wider populations.
• Assess project implementation progress and map accelerated activities.
• Support in identification, adaptation, and implementation of the various social behavior change and communication strategies towards COVID 19 vaccination uptake
• Support regular meetings and the development of products to increase COVID-19 demand creation.
• Support the roll out and dissemination of updated guidance, standard operating procedures, and other IEC materials to facilitate COVID 19 awareness and vaccine uptake.
• Strengthen relationship and coordination with county departments of health.
• Ensure a culture of accountability and learning through regular monitoring to project sites, support studies, assessments and proper documentation of tools and to contribute to learning, contribute to better the existing platform for monitoring, information management, and reporting systems that provide information for reporting and project improvement.

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION.

• Bachelors’ degree in relevant health-related discipline or Social Sciences.
• At least 4 years of direct experience providing technical assistance on routine immunization at the national or sub-national level in Kenya.
• Proven experience in managing multiple stakeholders to advance vaccine related policy, programming, and decision-making
• Proven experience in management of donor funds and implementation of activities.
• Experience working with USG rules and regulations is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Autonomy, sense of initiative and anticipation, good ability to solve problems.
• Ability to self-manage and prioritize issues.
• Have a global knowledge of donor rules and particularly the knowledge and operation of USAID.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
• Having a perfect knowledge of English and Kiswahili is an asset.
• Technical writing skills.
• Digital/IT competencies required, e.g., MS office suite, internet-based collaboration tools, social media.