SOIL Mentor at Boma Projects

JOB SUMMARY 

• BOMA is recognized for developing an innovative, gender-focused poverty graduation model for the extreme-poor women in the ASALs, the Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP). ​This long-term program offers a highly sequenced, layered and timebound set of interventions that help the poorest and most vulnerable women gain financial literacy, receive one to two years of mentoring in businesses and life skills, and through a conditional cash grant provided by BOMA, start small businesses to earn an income and establish savings groups, and build their resilience to shocks and strengthen social capital. 
• Where BOMA finds the highest rates of chronic malnutrition, BOMA has layered nutrition specific interventions on top of REAP to address the drivers of food insecurity and persistent and acute malnutrition to develop a new REAP for Nutrition Model.   Based on learning and early results, REAP for Nutrition – with two primary adaptions focused on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive models – has tremendous potential to scale up across Kenya and beyond in all of ASAL countries in which BOMA is operating. SOIL is a nutrition Sensitive program under REAP for Nutrition portfolio and will be implemented in Marsabit, Northern Kenya.
• We are seeking for a qualified and experienced Mentor who will be responsible for the day-day implementation of Entrepreneurship for improved food security, nutrition, and child well-being in Marsabit, (SOIL Program) at the village level. The mentor will be responsible for quality delivery of the program activities contributing towards reduction of malnutrition, increase food security and improvement of children well-being with interventions at individual, household and community level.
• Responsibilities

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop a deeper understanding of the Nutrition sensitive poverty graduation model and the SOIL program components especially on nutrition, entrepreneurship and natural resource management.
• Ensure quality program delivery of the scope, within time and on budget with a strong focus on individual accountability.  
• Ensure the program delivery meets BOMA’s standards for operational excellence and donor expectations.  
• Collaborate with the program partners including schools, health facilities and county government departments. 
• Play a key role in participant selection, training, mentorship and coaching, household dialogues, grants transfer, business startup and linkages to markets
• Support participants to form Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) and link them to other formal financial institutions
• Implement monthly Agri-nutrition training and Nutrition sensitive adaptations for nutrition resilience package for HHs and Groups under your mentorship including nutritional screening/Assessment, nutritional education and training (Agri nutrition), nutritional counselling, referral, HHs dialogues, HHs visioning and action planning.  
• Coordinate with Community Health Promoters to facilitate completion of linkages and referral of Severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition cases every month. 
• In a collaborative process with the community (Participatory Wealth Ranking) and BOMA Location Committees, target and identify eligible women and children for the program, based on BOMA’s participant selection criteria.
• Ensure data in BGs, SG record books is accurate and represent the true picture/performance of Businesses, savings and individual HH members.
• Utilize all assigned monitoring tools and data collection tools as guided by Field Officer, M&E and IT departments. 
• Maintain all working tools, tablets and motorcycles in good working condition at all times, fuel logs and other repairs are submitted on time. 
• Sensitize participants on R4N interventions, graduation metrics and facilitate participants access to market, financial, Community Health Systems, production, weather, context information.
• Work very closely with Community Health Promoters (CHPs), REAP Location Committees and other stakeholders in their locations to promote improved nutrition outcomes
• Any other assignments as guided by your supervisor.

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED COMPETENCES

• At least a Diploma in community health and nutrition, public health, nutrition, community development, social work, or another related discipline.
• At least two years’ experience in similar work; with proven experience in business coaching and data collection
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills; candidates should be able to relate well to both the women with whom we work.
• Have basic experience in mobile data collection and Microsoft office
• Motivated, self-driven, and able to work with minimum supervision.
• MUST be a resident, where of respective ward or village in which SOIL interventions will be implemented. 
• Good command of English, Swahili and local language.
• Have a valid motorcycle license A1/A2 and has experience on how to ride a motorcycle