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World Vision Kenya is a Christian, relief, advocacy and development organisation that is committed to improving the well-being of children, families and communities in Kenya. We partner with communities, the Government, sponsors, donors and corporates to help the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and enjoy life in all its fullness. With our advocacy work, we enable the voices of children and their communities to` reach decision makers, who have power to change unjust policies and practices. We implement sustainable development projects in Education, Health, Child Protection, Food Security, Economic Empowerment, as well as Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. World Vision has a vast reach in Kenya, Its transformative development initiatives are spread across 37 counties, nationwide. It serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
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Community Mobilizer Needed – Resilience, Protection and Climate Change
Key Responsibilities:
Project planning and implementation
- Work closely with the Integrated Development Officer to coordinate effective and timely implementation of all interventions outlined under activities in the Resilience Protection and Climate Change project.
- Participate in the preparation of overall work plan and budget as well as develop activity plans and budgets for technical support of Resilience Protection and Climate Change Project activities
- Support in the mobilization of project participants to effectively participate in the implementation of project activities.
- 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 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 Resilience Protection and Climate Change Project initiatives are effectively applied in project implementation.
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 WVK Officers, 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 AP Manager on the Empowered world view, Savings for Transformation, FAST and LVCD interventions outlined in the project documents.
- 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
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Community Mobilizer Needed – Health, Hygiene and Sanitation
Key Responsibilities:
MAIN RESPONSILITIES:
Technical support
- Liaise with the local administration to mobilize the community for the project interventions.
- Facilitate community meetings in relation to the projects
- To support Health, sanitation and hygiene coverage through various behaviour change methodologies, linkages such as CLTS, integrated health outreaches, nutrition (include infant and young child feeding) etc
- Support various capacity building sessions for the communities such as training the communities on sanitation and nutrition linkages, importance of hand washing with soap at critical times, household water treatment and other hygiene promotion aspects.
- Support the establishment/strengthening of referral mechanisms/processes by community health promotors (CHPs) and Health workers – Monthly meetings with CHPs.
- Support roll-out of Health activities in the AP such as maternal, new born and child health (MNCH) and integration of the same into WASH activities
Quality Assurance-Monitoring, reporting and Documentation
- Support in the coordination of joint monitoring visits between the donor and the national office.
- Participate in evaluation planning and support data collection teams, analysis and interpretation
- Support monitoring on a monthly basis (project indicators progress) and make relevant improvements
- Collect (such as through digital means-m Water) and share information to guide project teams in timely writing and submission of quality reports (Annual, Semi-annul and Monthly Management Reports) in line with WV/grant reporting guidelines and the donor expectation.
- Utilize financial planning tools such as spending plans, work plans based on project activities and budgets.
- Utilize budget estimates and anticipated costs based on programmatic priorities and activities for planning purposes.
- Monitor (with support of the project officer-sanitation and hygiene or other AP WASH and health staff) on a monthly basis the project implementation on budget, on time and on target.
- Advocacy, Fundraising, Engagement with strategic partners, Linkages and networks & partnership development
Participate in mobilizing stakeholders during baselines, evaluations and other relevant programming activities
- Collaborate with community leaders and other partners to plan monitoring activities
- Represent WVK in relevant forums within the AP area
- Support fundraising initiatives for health, sanitation and hygiene such as proposal development.
- Provide support to community led processes of monitoring public service delivery.
- Ensure communities are mobilized and participate in their WASH and health projects
