Latest Jobs at National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK)

Job Purpose

• Ensure timely, efficient and safe transportation of authorized persons, deliveries, and maintain/use
• Project vehicle in a clean and mechanically sound condition within the legal requirements of the government of Kenya.

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure that the work tickets are maintained for the assigned motor vehicles, detailing trips, fuel records and service records.
• Ensure safety of employees on board
• Ensure the necessary daily, weekly and monthly preventive maintenance and safety checks are carried out on the assigned vehicles.
• Ensure security regulations and convoy rules for motor vehicles are adhered to.
• Monitor maintenance and repair needs of the vehicles and report to the supervisor any faults noted and coordinate rectification of the same as guided by the supervisor and vehicle repairs and maintenance policy and procedures.
• Ensure that all the necessary documentation e.g. license, insurance, others for each vehicle are valid at all times and report to the supervisor at least one month in advance for renewal.
• Responsible for fuel requisition and keying in all fuel used for the day and analysing the consumption on daily basis.
• Collect goods and people in good time and ensure safe delivery to designated places.
• Ensure proper handing over before proceeding on leave/field trips/other off to the person identified by the supervisor.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the management from time to time.

Requirements for Appointment

• Holder of K.C.S.E certificate with minimum C- grade.
• Holder of an up to date driving Licence
• Basic mechanical skills will be an added advantage
• Minimum 2 years driving experience accident free and knowledgeable of most regions in Kenya.
• MUST have a certificate of good conduct
• Good team player with excellent interpersonal skills

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Job Purpose

This position is responsible for planning, monitoring reviewing and evaluation of the projects of the Council

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing M&E framework and plans for programs
• Responsible for coordinating monitoring and evaluation activities for projects
• Managing the program database system
• Ensure proper data collection, entry and analysis procedures, storage and appropriate use of data to track program performance
• Responsible for capacity building and supervising data clerks, community resource persons and field officers for compliance to M&E requirements
• Supporting quality improvement teams and setting up a system for quality assurance and Improvement
• Responsible for documenting and disseminating M & E results, findings and sharing lessons learnt with Staff and relevant stakeholders
• Responsible for the preparation of project reports for submission to the M&E coordinator,
• project team, partners, and stakeholders.

Requirements for Appointment

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field from a recognized institution
• Relevant skills in research statistics, critical and analytical thinking, Good judgment and problem solving skills are critical.
• Field experience in data collection, analysis & quality assurance.
• Good understanding of OVC issues particularly HIV/AIDS, children and youth development and health, education and training, life-skills and household economic strengthening.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Fluency in both written and oral English and Kiswahili
• Team work
• High level of flexibility.

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 Job Purpose:

To provide Leadership and Coordination in Implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of Household Economic Empowerment program to promote OVC household resilience and graduation as guided by the case plans. The position holder reports to the project Coordinator and will be in charge of supervising the Field Agent Supervisors (FAS) and Community Based Trainers.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure prudent designing, planning of appropriate HES interventions and utilization of project resources for OVC effective households economic strengthening interventions
• Promote cohesive and collaborative working between HES workforce and other project components; case managers, case workers and caregivers
• Liasing with the Project Coordinator, NCCK management and USAID Tumikia HES point person to identify and facilitate effective delivery of impactful HES interventions for resilience building and graduation of OVC households while paying fidelity to donor and stakeholder expectations
• Act as the key focal person in management of HES tracking systems including SAVIX used in tracking progress of HES interventions
• Liaise with case managers and Data assistants to ensure HES data is appropriately captured and reported on CPMIS
• Document and share HES success/significant change stories to promote learning
• Profile OVC caregivers based on their Vulnerability category and case plans to ensure provision of appropriate empowerment packages to achieve sustainable resilience and graduation
• Provide ongoing training, mentorship and supervision of HES workforce including FAS and Community Business Trainers (CBT) to promote understanding and fidelity to project implementation of core HES models and approaches; Food & Nutrition Security, local value chains, Youth economic empowerment, microenterprise development, savings for transformation (S4T), youth economic empowerment and social protection
• Facilitate the HES workforce to cascade the capacity to OVC households engaged in various Household Economic Strengthening initiatives
• Promote opportunities for continuous learning and reflection by the HES workforce and other project staff
• Support the HES workforce to promote school based agricultural enterprises in schools with significant OVC presence.
• Target older youth from OVC households who are out of school and support uptake of marketable vocational skills training, apprenticeships and appropriate economic strengthening initiatives.
• Provide ongoing training, mentorship and supervision of HES workforce including FAS and Community Business Trainers (CBT) to promote understanding and fidelity to project implementation of core HES models and approaches; Food & Nutrition Security, local value chains, Youth economic empowerment, microenterprise development, savings for transformation (S4T), youth economic empowerment and social protection
• Facilitate the HES workforce to cascade the capacity to OVC households engaged in various Household Economic Strengthening initiatives
• Promote opportunities for continuous learning and reflection by the HES workforce and other project staff
• Support the HES workforce to promote school based agricultural enterprises in schools with significant OVC presence.
• Target older youth from OVC households who are out of school and support uptake of marketable vocational skills training, apprenticeships and appropriate economic strengthening initiatives

Requirements for Appointment

• Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Economics, or other relevant agriculture discipline, Business Administration and management, Economics, Community Development or equivalent degree or with at least one-year experience or a Diploma in the stated Fields with over 3 years’ of relevant HES experience
• Over one-year experience for degree holder or at least 3 years working experience for Diploma holders implementing Household Economic Strengthening f.
• Experience in undertaking economic empowerment work among disadvantaged rural households.
• Excellent financial management skills and budgeting.
• Excellent donor report writing and presentation skills
• Strong negotiation and engagement skills
• Community mobilization and lobbying skills.
• Good facilitation skills
• Able to deliver capacity building for staff and project stakeholders