Vacancies at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

Mobilization and Project Implementation at Local Level

• Ensure mobilization for all ELEVATE project interventions.
•  Link to the community, local institutions and partners at the local level for project implementation of three track ministry.
• Ensure use of participatory approaches to enable the community ownership of development initiatives.
• Mobilize community and stakeholders to participate in key national days including world environment day, project handover celebrations.
• Promote child protection and support systems for abused children in line with the project Implementation reach.
• Mobilize and coordinate capacity building initiative for communities and Local partners

Planning and Reporting for Local programming.

• Facilitate participatory identification of local needs and resources.
• Ensure monthly schedule for field monitoring.
• Facilitate participatory monitoring that involves Local level partners and communities.
• Ensure data collection using the standardized monitoring tools.
• Participate in the evaluation and baseline planning
• Develop monthly field cluster and progress reports and filing of the same.
• Engage community leaders and partners in the planning of the monitoring activities.
• Participate in regular reflections on monitoring practice to make improvements as needed

Engagement and Networking.

• Frontline representation of WVK in key community level stakeholder forums including all the L&R activities
• Identify community needs and communicate to the Manager for resource mobilization.
• Facilitate community members to advocate on Child Well-being issues, climate change issues and best approaches and support
• Collaborate with Local partners to support for AACs, County Government and partners to support Child Protection and Child participation interventions.
• Ensure Child protection issues are reported and adhered to within the required timelines.

Other

• Any other duties as assigned by Supervisor

Knowledge, Qualification and skills required:

• Diploma in Community Development, Business Management /Development studies/social work or any other related courses in a relevant field. Degree is an added advantage
• At least 2 years field experience working with Communities in refugee/host community programming focusing on children and familiar with program design and management in an NGO context.
• Experience in working with communities.
•  Very strong communication skills
• Knowledge of humanitarian industry including sphere standards (Core Humanitarian Standards),
• Strong problem solving, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Ability to work with different partners, local authorities, local organizations and NGOs, to develop and maintain positive relationships.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity and physical stamina.
• Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources
• Ability to cope and deal with stress and work under stressful work conditions is a requirement
• Commitment to World Vision Core Values and Vision Statement
• Ability to exhibit exemplary lifestyle as interpreted in specific local cultural context
• Agreement with World Vision’s Christian ethos and participation in devotions
• Knowledgeable of MS Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
• Applicants MUST be local residents from Lafey subcounty, Mandera County

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Key Responsibilities:

Project planning and implementation

• Coordinate effective and timely implementation of all interventions outlined under Empowered Worldview, Savings for Transformation, Local Value Chain development and any other related and cross cutting programme activities in the project.
• Participate in the preparation of overall work plan and budget as well as develop activity plans and budgets for technical support of local value chain development interventions.
• Support in the mobilization and registration of the Households.
• Participate in developing different levels of progress report (weekly updates, situational reports, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports)
• Supporting Project Quality Assurance (PQA) through organizing and supporting monitoring visits on L&R interventions.
• Collaborate with relevant ministries and other relevant partners at the County and community levels to ensure integration and high-level implementation of the planned THRIVE Project activities.
• Work closely with relevant authorities to ensure all economic recovery and market systems interventions deployed in the communities are in alignment with L&R in emergency Standards
• Work together with other staff/ to ensure that key trainings meet the standard required to facilitate, provide knowledge and reinforcement of desired L&R behaviour and practices.
• Ensure that business processes, standards and guidelines related to Livelihood & resilience initiatives are effectively applied in project implementation.
• Make technical input into the planning and design of project specific operational researches, including baseline and end line evaluation, post distribution monitoring related to L&R.
• Conduct continuous activity and budget analysis to ensure adherence to the approved work, budget and procurement plans.
• Successful and timely implementation of Economic Recovery and market systems sub-Sector activities
• Budget utilization to acceptable thresholds

Technical support

• Support in the training of the households on Empowered worldview and tracking on the implementation of the Household Economic plans.
• Support Training of S4T groups on using Dream save applications.
• Support Continuous Coaching and Mentoring of the S4T groups and reporting
• Link the S4T groups to other support services.
• Work with communities and relevant stakeholders to identify key on-farm and off farm value chains to support
• Support project market research on viable value chains
• Ensure the target communities are mobilized and participate in the identified Local Value Chain Interventions
• In consultation with other staff, government and partners sensitize and mobilize the communities to form Project Implementation units, producer groups
• Support produce aggregation and marketing activities of the project
• Work with Project Officer, local stakeholders and leaders to identify community champions/resource persons for LVCD, Empowered World View and Digitization of farmer records
• In consultation with other staff develop capacity assessment tools for producer groups and develop a capacity development plan
• Facilitate the capacity building of the partners and farmer groups on LVCD activities (Climate Smart Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, post-harvest management and value addition, transformational leadership)
• Facilitate linkages of the savings groups to FAST product to enhance their performance
• Ensure cross cutting themes are integrated into LVCD interventions
• Provide technical support and timely feedback to the Project Manager on the Empowered world view, Savings for Transformation, FAST and LVCD interventions outlined in the THRIVE project.
• Organize meetings with key local value chain actors and farmers to forge effective support of the LVCD interventions
• Ensure adult and child safeguarding during the implementation of the planned interventions

Cost effective and efficient implementation of the project interventions.

Quality assurance -Monitoring, Reporting, evaluation and Documentation

• Ensure the community champions (LVCD, EWV and S4T) have necessary monitoring tools and are trained on the same
• Develop project monitoring and reporting schedules in collaboration with the various stakeholders
• Work with the community champions/facilitators to continuously train, monitor and mentor the performance of S4T and producer groups along identified value chains
• Clean and Collate project performance data and ensure it is keyed into the relevant Monitoring Information System (MIS) on a monthly basis
• Prepare weekly updates, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual progress reports
• Documentation of key lessons learnt and successes stories from the target farmers
• Continuously track progress of planned activities and outputs in the detailed implementation plan to ensure timely and quality implementation of plans
• Support Monitoring and evaluation of THRIVE activities in coordination with M&E and relevant stakeholders.
• Support farmer records digitization process and performance tracking in collaboration with community resource persons and relevant private actors
• Together with farmers, partners, conduct regular reflection and learning events
• Support the project data collection during baseline, end line, market assessments and post distribution assessments
• Quality and timely reporting of project interventions and assessments
• Effective project monitoring and documentation
• Developed and updated digital farmer records in place

Strategic Engagement, Partnership and Networking

• Represent World Vision in key L&R stakeholder forum/meetings and relevant networks at the Ward, Sub-County and County levels.
•  Facilitates linkages of the S4T and farmers groups to micro-finance institutions and skills development institutions
• Strengthen partnerships with the county government and other partners for effective support and capacity development of the farmers for sustainability
• Effective coordination with other stakeholders

KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATION FOR THE ROLE

• The jobholder must have a minimum of a Diploma certificate in agriculture/Agricultural economics/ Developmental Studies or equivalent from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of two years’ experience working with communities in either relief or development Livelihood and Resilience/Food security projects