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  • Posted: Jul 18, 2025
    Deadline: Jul 30, 2025
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  • World Concern is a Christian global relief and development agency extending opportunity and hope to people facing extreme poverty. With your partnership, World Concern's efforts reach deep into the most remote corners of the planet, where climate and geography, societal instability and scarce infrastructure create incredible challenges to the people living ...
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    Project Officer- Loita

    • The Project Officer will support World Concern’s ongoing One Village Transformed (OVT) program. This long-term initiative focuses on empowering communities to take full ownership of their development through participatory and sustainable approaches. The role will involve implementing holistic strategies in Disaster Risk Reduction, socio-economic empowerment, village governance, and church engagement, in collaboration with local communities, government bodies, and partner organizations. The goal is to build self-reliant communities capable of driving their own growth and well-being.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Community Mobilization & Capacity Building: Facilitate engagement with communities to promote ownership of their development processes. Support the formation of village leadership teams and assist in the development and review of 5-year strategic plans. Use approved curricula to strengthen community-based institutions and enhance local capacity.
    • Stakeholder Engagement: Actively advocate for OVT communities by building strong partnerships with government offices, churches, local leaders, and other development actors.
    • Represent World Concern in local forums while upholding organizational values.
    • Economic Empowerment: Lead livelihoods and business development initiatives by identifying investment opportunities, supporting existing businesses, forming business groups, and offering coaching and mentoring. Support socio-economic profiling and create an
    • enabling environment for economic growth.
    • Program Implementation & Monitoring: Execute ongoing OVT activities while introducing the program to new villages. Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans to track progress and assess key indicators. Provide timely, high-quality reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly) and participate in regular program review meetings.
    • Spiritual Integration: Promote Christian values by integrating spiritual development and discipleship opportunities in program delivery. Build and maintain partnerships with local
    • churches and the World Concern communications department to enhance spiritual outreach.
    • Documentation & Reporting: Develop case studies, capture lessons learned, and contribute to proposal development. Maintain accurate documentation and prepare detailed work schedules aligned with project goals.

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Microfinance or Entrepreneurship, or relevant tertiary qualification in Cooperative or Development studies, and/or experience in related fields.
    • Knowledge and experience in WASH projects.
    • At least 3 years of progressive programming experience.
    • Ability to promote empowering and developmental models in rural communities.
    • Experience in participatory community engagement techniques such as Participatory rural
    • Appraisal (PRA/PLA) and appreciative inquiry.
    • Fluency in writen and spoken English and Swahili required.
    • Mature Christian commited to serving Jesus Christ.

    Working Environment and Conditions

    • Basic office environment with periodic disruption of power, water, internet etc.
    • Based in Narok County
    • Working and living in a cross-cultural, sometimes unstable or insecure environment.
    • Periodic travel to more remote field locations.
    • Apolitical, gender sensitive office setting.
    • Limited access to medical facilities. Health and hygiene standards are otien poor.
    • Drug free environment including alcohol and tobacco.

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    Method of Application

    Interested candidates should submit their applications and CV to wcafricahr@worldconcern.org not later than July 30th, 2025.

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