Job Vacancies at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Key Responsibilities

• Community Engagement and CoLMEAL Implementation
• Help train youth, girls, women, and local leaders on CoLMEAL tools and simple ways to collect and use data.
• Assist in setting up and supporting CoLMEAL Groups in villages and helping them stay active.
• Mobilize community members for meetings, trainings, or special events when needed.
• Act as the main contact between the community and ADRA Kenya to share information and feedback.
• Action Grants Administration and Oversight
• Help community groups (especially youth and women groups) create gender-aware proposals that solve local problems.
• Assist the CoLMEAL Officer during trainings on grant writing, budgets, and basic risk management.
• Visit grantee groups regularly to check progress and help solve small problems.
• Make sure community groups keep simple records like signed attendance lists, photos, and legal receipts.
• Support monitoring of how the small grants are spent and report anything that needs support or correction.
• Participatory Monitoring, Learning, and Knowledge Management
• Support CoLMEAL groups to collect and record gender-disaggregated data and other useful information.
• Use basic CoLMEAL and MEARL tools to track what’s working and what needs change in activities.
• Help plan or participate in small community learning or feedback forums.
• Share useful information with the CoLMEAL Officer and help write short community updates when needed.
• Participatory Monitoring, Learning, and Knowledge Management
• Support the communications or advocacy officer to document short stories, quotes, or events from the community.
• Help organize community forums and feedback sessions, like scorecard meetings orbarazas.
• Build and maintain good relationships with ward-level government offices, CBOs, and youth/women leaders.
• Keep regular contact with the ADRA team to make sure the community activities stay on track and challenges are reported early.

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education Diploma in Social Sciences, Diploma in Community Development or Social Work or related discipline
• Experience At least 1 year of experience in community development, participatory monitoring and evaluation, grants administration, or grassroots advocacy.
• Experience working with community groups
• Working in Kakuma will be an added advantage

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The Technical Field Facilitator Health will support the implementation of gender- and ageresponsive health services under the STRONGER project. This role will be responsible for strengthening the capacity of health care workers, supporting the delivery of inclusive and quality SRHR and GBV services, and ensuring outreach and clinical interventions are aligned with project goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Health Systems Strengthening and Capacity Building
• Work with County Health Management Teams (CHMTs), facility staff, and community health structures to identify capacity gaps.
• Facilitate trainings and refresher sessions for Primary Health Care Workers (PHWs), Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), and Community Health Promoters (CHPs) on
• GAR, SRHR, and survivor-centered GBV care.
• Support integration of environmental and climate-sensitive practices into health service delivery.
• Outreach and Clinical Service Support
• Support mobile and facility-based SRHR/GBV outreach services, ensuring availability of clinical and psychosocial support.
• Collaborate with facility staff and other partners to operationalize GBV Help Desks and ensure AGW can access needed services.
• Monitor service availability and quality across community and facility-level interventions
• Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement
• Participate in local health stakeholder forums, including health sector working groups.
• Work with local health facilities to implement referral pathways and community sensitization on available health services.
• Link communities to supportive services including family planning, mental health, and youth-friendly care.
• Monitoring, Learning, and Documentation
• Collect and analyze health-related data, including disaggregated indicators on service uptake.
• Document case studies, lessons learned, and innovative practices in health systems strengthening.
• Support preparation of reports, learning materials, and presentation of outcomes to the broader STRONGER team and partners.

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education Diploma in public health, Nursing, Clinical Medicine, Community Health, or related discipline
• Experience Minimum 1 years’ experience working in community or facility-based health programming.
• Demonstrated experience in SRHR, GBV prevention and response, or health system capacity building.
• Experience working in ASAL or similarly marginalized contexts will be an added adavantage