Project Officer-Marsabit Child Protection Resilience Project at Food for the Hungry (FH Kenya)

Key Result #1: Strategic Project Implementation & Quality Delivery

• Lead the timely and efficient implementation of monthly, quarterly, and annual project activities within scope, budget, and timelines.
• Ensure all interventions align with child protection standards, FH-Kenya’s values, and international child rights frameworks.
• Oversee budget utilization, ensuring all financial transactions adhere to ERIKS and FH-Kenya policies.
• Promote quality assurance in all activities by ensuring that interventions follow best practices and are impact driven.
• Participate in and facilitate capacity-building trainings for project staff, community members, and stakeholders to strengthen local child protection mechanisms.

Key Result #2: Leadership in Child Protection & Participation

• Review, implement and monitor child participation strategies to ensure meaningful involvement of children in decision-making at school and community levels.
• Spearhead initiatives that promote disability inclusion and gender-sensitive approaches in child protection interventions.
• Facilitate the establishment and strengthening of child rights clubs, school assemblies, and community-based child protection structures.
• Support mentorship and training programs that empower children with life skills, advocacy knowledge, and resilience-building capacities.
• Advocate for voluntary child participation in community service projects that enhance their sense of responsibility and civic engagement.
• Work closely with local government, child protection agencies, and civil society groups to strengthen community-based protection systems.

Key Result #3: Learning, Documentation & Program Reporting

• Participate in the design and maintenance of project learning frameworks to track progress, challenges, and best practices.
• Participate in monthly and quarterly reviews to assess project outcomes and
• integrate findings into adaptive programming.
• Ensure accurate documentation of all project activities, including the systematic capturing of case studies, success stories, and lessons learned using
• Outcome Mapping Approach.
• Lead in the preparation and timely submission of donor reports, ensuring data quality and compliance with reporting standards.
• Maintain an updated register of project beneficiaries and stakeholders, ensuring all interventions are properly recorded.
• Ensure up-to-date capturing of World Link III target data, updating accomplishments in Smartsheet, and Reach Data on a monthly basis for organizational learning and decision-making.

Key result #4: Stakeholder Engagement & Community Strengthening

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with the key community child protection structures such as Area Advisory Councils, paralegals, Ward
• Development Committees, and local advocacy groups to enhance community ownership and child protection initiatives.
• Enhance collaboration with government departments, civil society, faith-based organizations, and other key stakeholders to align project interventions with broader child protection policies.
• Mobilize communities and partners to support child-led advocacy and local policy engagement.
• Promote the FH’s Community System for Accountability and Feedback (CSAFE), ensuring concerns raised are addressed timely and effectively.
• Work closely with school administrations in the target communities through
• Board of Managements, Parents-Teacher Associations, teachers and parents to actualize education outcomes while building their capacities to champion child rights within the school environment.

Qualifications

• Vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders effectively.
• Ability to work independently while fostering collaboration within a team.
• Passion for child rights, inclusion, and resilience-building.
• Strong knowledge of child protection policies, community engagement approaches, and case management principles.
• Proven experience in budgeting, program reporting, and monitoring & evaluation.
• Skilled in advocacy, stakeholder coordination, and facilitating child-led initiatives.

 EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Child Development, Business Administration, Agriculture, Development Studies, or a related field.
• Certification in relevant areas such as Child Protection, Business Development, or similar fields is an added advantage.
• At least 3 years of hands-on field experience in child protection, child participation, and community-based programming.