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  • Data Entry Clerk

    Data Entry Clerk

    The Malezi Bora Data Entry Officer will be responsible for the Collation, Tabulation and Payment of all the participants during the Malezi Bora campaign. He /she will be responsible of tracking any payments that bounce back and initiating the payment of the same.
    Main responsibilities
    Data Entry and preparation of Payment documents

    Review all Partipant list for Accuracy in amounts and No of Days worked
    Verification of all the Documents
    Preparation of Accurate Payment list using Excel for Uploading on Omni
    Reconciliation of the Payments Made and Developing a list of any payments that Bounced Back to the Account
    Preparation of a Report on all the Malezi Bora Campaign Payments made

    Coordination:

    Work closely with the Accountant in ensuring Accuracy of the Payment list
    Ensure Timely Payments to Participants within one week after the campaign
    Prepare lists of any payments which could not reach the participants due to errors in their numbers
    Prepare a Comprehensive report on all the Payments made, reconciled to the Field Lists showing the total amount used in the Campaign
    Together with the Accountant prepare the Budget Vs Actual Analysis of the Malezi Bora Campaign

    Skills and Requirements

    Back ground in Finance, Accounting or Statistics with minimum two years.
    Excellent team building/working skills, strong personal and interpersonal skills with demonstrated leadership and supervisory excellence.
    Strong Analytical skills with prowess in Excel.
    The Assignment is temporary and will be for 3 weeks

  • Consultancy to support the final evaluation of the HKI every Child Thrives project in Kenya

    Consultancy to support the final evaluation of the HKI every Child Thrives project in Kenya

    The project is organized in 4 streams:

    Stream 1: Strengthening the local health care system by increasing the capacity of local community health workers (CHWs) and volunteers to implement an integrated NTD-MDA and Vitamin A supplementation program for boys and girls under 5. This will be accomplished through cascade training for these CHWs and volunteers using a comprehensive toolkit.
    Stream 2: Increasing the coverage of vitamin A and de-worming for boys and girls under 5 using an existing community based Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Mass Drug Administration platform combined with micronutrient supplementation. This will include implementing community preparedness protocols to ensure all eligible children are included and all gender or disability related barriers are addressed.
    Stream 3: Increasing knowledge and demand for vitamin A and de-worming through community engagement around vitamin A deficiency and the need for supplementation as well as de-worming in children ineligible for school-based programs. This will be accomplished through a participatory approach.
    Stream 4: Ensuring equitable access to vitamin A and de-worming for all eligible boys and girls under 5 (6-59 months). This will be done by ensuring that all gender and disability based barriers to the program delivery are identified and addressed to maximize equitable program access.

    As the project ends in March 2020, a final evaluation of the project is required. HKI is therefore recruiting a consultant to support the design, implementation and reporting of this final evaluation.
    Specific Responsibilities of the consultant

    To update tools and protocols used for baseline and prepare the sampling of the surveys
    To support coordination with national and county forum and ethical review process
    To support the development of training packages and train surveyors
    To support the conduction of the final evaluation
    To analyze the data collected
    To write a final evaluation report

    Qualifications required

    Hold at least a MSc in a relevant field (e.g., public health, nutrition, economics, sociology, etc.)
    Demonstrated experience in final evaluations
    Demonstrated experience in cross sectional surveys
    Demonstrated experience in qualitative and quantitative surveys
    Demonstrated experience of working with public health programs, with a preference for nutrition programs

    Expected level of effort: 60 days

  • Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

    Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

    The Monitoring, and Evaluation officer will be responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation, research and learning framework of HKI projects. He /she will be responsible in tracking performance of the projects and working with program managers to ensure the project outcomes are achieved. He will provide leadership role in conducting assessments, surveys and research and as well as build capacities of the program staff and relevant stakeholders on all areas related to data and nutrition and health information, and reporting.
    Scope of the Position
    Designing HKI M&E framework

    Review Kenya strategy to ensure M&E framework is well articulated
    Participate in development of the new projects’ logic frameworks and support in reviewing the existing ones.
    Develop the overall framework, for specific projects’ M&E, this include mid-term project review, impact assessment, final evaluation, develop project Performance Monitoring Plan with relevant data collection systems
    Lead in development of Projects’ Management Framework (PMF) that is aligned with the project’s logic framework

    Implementation of M&E and coordination:

    Work closely with program managers in ensuring PMF is updated on monthly basis to inform the program progress and performance
    Support all M&E initiatives for assigned grant(s)/project(s) including monitoring data quality and tracking the project progress
    In Liaison with the Program managers and officers, hold regular review meetings to assess the progress against the set targets, and provide recommendations based on internal policies, donor regulations and project timeline
    Support the Program Managers in defining and implementing the key project performance indicators (KPI) as well as monitoring them throughout the duration of the projects.
    Support program staff on ways to properly document, organize and capture program progress.
    Keep abreast of developments in grant/program changes and progress to advise and recommend tools and strategies to increase program performances and results.
    Perform regular field visits to ensure the quality of data collected by Programs and to verify the accuracy of reported data.
    Lead in undertaking Research and assessments.
    Ensures that verifiable, quantitative data analysis is shared with relevant stakeholders to inform program design and review
    Identify lessons learned and develop case studies to capture qualitative outputs of the project.
    Represent HKI at national and/or county level coordination forums.

    Qualifications and Competencies

    Strong back ground in public health, or nutrition with a minimum of 5 years of experience in M&E.
    Minimum academic qualification of a degree in Nutrition/health related field with specialization in M&E. Masters in similar field is an added advantage.
    Experienced in representing former/current organization at national and county level coordination forums.
    Excellent team building/working skills, strong personal and interpersonal skills with demonstrated leadership and supervisory excellence.
    Strong Analytical skills with prowess in SMART, ENA, EPI infor, SPSS, SQUEAC/, LQAS etc.
    Good field work skills with good understanding of organization’s project area.

  • Consultancy for Assessment on Vitamin A Supplementation in 4 African countries

    Consultancy for Assessment on Vitamin A Supplementation in 4 African countries

    Scope of Position
    When delivered twice a year to at least 80% of children aged 6 to 59 months in countries with high under five mortality and high rates of vitamin A deficiency, Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) can contribute to a reduction of U5M by up to 24%.
    For the last decades, VAS has mostly been delivered in Sub Saharan Africa using National Immunization Days (NiD) or Supplementary Immunization Activities (SiA) as a vehicle. These campaigns are primarily organised to deliver polio or measles vaccine and commonly reached >90% coverage.
    However, progress in immunization rates and the eradication of polio in most countries of SSA are leading to the phase out of these campaigns. Between 2016 and 2019, coverage of VAS dropped dramatically in SSA as many rounds of campaigns were cancelled and VAS was left without a vehicle.
    To ensure that VAS can be continued in countries where it is still needed, HKI and its partners have started supporting the integration of VAS into health systems routine services. As more and more countries are about to initiate this integration process, it is important that lessons be learned from the first initiatives, as where it was initiated, numerous challenges were identified. Some key questions that need to be answered are:

    What platform should be used to deliver VAS?
    How to scale up the routine delivery of VAS while phasing out campaigns without a major drop in coverage?
    What are the minimum requirements to ensure successful integration of VAS in routine services?
    What are the key steps that should be considered to prepare, implement and monitor the integration process?

    To answer these questions and provide guidance to countries who are already transitioning or considering entering into this transition, HKI and UNICEF developed a concept note and tools for collection of information from countries that have already started the integration process.
    Countries identified for this lessons learning exercise are: Kenya, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Malawi, Senegal.
    To support this exercise, HKI is recruiting a team of 2 consultants for non French speaking countries.
    These consultants must

    have demonstrated experience in VAS programming,
    speak French and English
    Hold at least a masters in public health or similar domain
    Have demonstrated experience in studies / assessments

    Specific Responsibilities
    In close coordination with HKI regional program manager for VAS, the consultants will support the lessons learning exercise in Mozambique, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Malawi by:

    Organizing visits to the targeted countries and coordinating with HKI and UNICEF offices in country for the organization of all meetings relevant to the exercise. Key actors who should be involved include:

    Ministry of health at national level: supply chain managers, health information managers, VAS managers
    UNICEF national level teams involved in supply chain for VaS, health information system, nutrition and immunization
    HKI teams at national level involved in VaS programming
    Other relevant partners involved in VAS
    District ministry of health management teams (sample)
    Health facility and community actors involved in VAS programming (sample)

    Conducting the lessons learning exercise at country level through the organization of individual and group meetings and the organisation of interviews with district, facility and community actors involved in VAS programming.
    Compiling and analyzing all information and data collected and producing a report for each country visited.
    Preparing executive summary and presentations as required.

    Time Frame
    The 2 consultants selected for the lessons learning exercise will visit the 4 countries listed above and conduct the exercise in accordance with the timeframe proposed in table 1. The first exercise will take place in Kenya and will represent the testing of the tools developed. Following this test, adjustments will be made to the tool and the next round of data collection will take place in September 2019.
    It is expected that each consultant will work for 30 days on the exercise between June 2019 and March 2020 as described in table 2.
    level of effort expected:

    Preparation workshop between consultants and HKI team – July 2019 – 3 days
    Organization of countries visits – July 2019 – 5 days
    Countries visits – July – October 2019 – 28 days
    Data analysis and reporting – July – October 2019 – 20 days
    Total Effort – 56 days per consultant

  • Project officer for SETH project

    Project officer for SETH project

    Overall objectives of the position include: The Project Officers will work in close partnership with the County department of Health and other stakeholders to implement the project. They will report to SETH Project Coordinator –based in Nairobi with frequent travel to the project areas.
    Specific responsibilities

    Coordination and Representation:

    Serve as the project focal point with CHMT to support the CHMT in planning and monitoring activities in the County
    Ensure coordination with all relevant health and nutrition actors at the county level including UN agencies, INGO’s, CBO’s and county health management teams to ensure the high performance of program.
    Work closely with the SETH CORE Management Team and the CHMT to conduct and/or update a landscape analysis of current stakeholders and their activities;
    Assess and remain aware of all interventions taking place in their county on health and nutrition and participate in all relevant coordination meetings in the counties;
    Engage stakeholders on a regularly basis as part of the implementation process; Convene County Level Meetings with stakeholders to discuss Health System management issues, the planning, organization, coordination and implementation of Health System Strengthening activities between key stakeholders;
    Represent SETH in County and sub-county meetings

    Relationship management:

    Maintain relationship with stakeholders and partners in the county on behalf of SETH project.
    Principally; County department of Health, UNICEF, MANI, Save the Children, APHIA plus, Yes
    Youth Can, Chiefs and Sub chiefs, Religious leaders, County governors, AMREF, Plan International among others

    3.Program implementation:
    Contribute to the development of a detailed implementation plan (DIP) that encompasses activities and assigns responsibilities against defined timelines
    Advocate with appropriate government officials and partners for continued support to improve routine child survival interventions through routine service delivery mechanisms and regular campaigns such as Malezi Bora.
    Liaise closely with other partners to support to County and sub County health management teams to:
    o Improve the knowledge of Health Workers and Community Health Workers on MNCH
    interventions.
    o Improve the knowledge of front line health workers in the documentation of MNCH
    interventions and its integration with the health sector reporting processes.
    o Improve the knowledge of supervisors in supportive supervision and stock management.
    o Support the health systems managers to better use HMIS data for decision making.
    Participate in County and sub County level reviews to facilitate problem solving and problem seeking by County and sub County Health Management Teams for procurement, training, supportive supervision and management and use of data for routine service delivery and Malezi Bora
    Liaise with the Yes Youth Can project, to mobilize the ‘youth bungees’ to sensitize the
    communities to the importance of MNCH services.
    Support the sub county health teams to mobilize the community for MNCH services specifically utilizing administrative leaders, Religious leaders, community dialogue days, etc.
    4.M&E and Research:**
    Contribute to development of Program Management Framework (PMF) that is aligned with the project logic framework
    Contribute to the development of a monitoring and evaluation plan (M&E), that encompasses key indicators; Contribute to the development of M&E monitoring tools, defining collection and consolidation and reporting processes with the CHMT;
    Ensure the timely reporting of the CHMT on the M&E .performance indicators;
    Engage CHMT in the analysis of systems weakness and appropriate actions to correct weaknesses and improve efficiencies.
    Validate all technical and financial reports from counties (e.g. Attendance registers)
    Ensure timely and accurate reports and minutes of county level CHMT and other stakeholder meetings.
    Carry out and document routine Monitoring of program activities carried out by County department of Health and other partners.
    Through collaboration with implementing partners, support MoH staff to carry out supportive supervision and on the job (OTJ) training
    Participate actively during surveys and routine assessments
    Work with the SETH Project coordinator- to analyze and report on data from surveys, assessments and program monitoring rounds
    Oversee dissemination findings and lessons learned for SETH projects for advocacy with County decision makers. Materials may include the social mobilization toolkit, lives saved tools and cost
    effectiveness calculation handouts.
    Other tasks as required by the Project Coordinator eg. Development of training tools,
    documentation, survey’s etc.
    5.Reporting and Dissemination:
    Contribute to the preparation of annual reports, periodic progress reports, program statistics and other materials that may be required
    Submit monthly monitoring reports to SETH Project coordinator-.
    Provide technical support and build the capacity of County and sub County MOH staff in consolidating, validating and analysing MNCH data, ensuring that corrective action points are done based on monitoring data.
    Prepare and disseminate data at appropriate local forums.

    Duration and location:
    Duration of contract: 9 months, renewable depending on funding availability and performance
    Start date: as soon as possible
    Duty station: Kakamega
    Qualifications, Experience, Skills and Competences

    University Degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Health Management, gender or related field
    Proven experience in implementing health system strengthening or gender programs
    At least three years of experience with INGO, NGO or development agencies.
    Good knowledge of Kenya government policies and systems.
    Demonstrated experience working with county and sub-county department of health
    Demonstrated experience working with health care workers and community health volunteers
    Effective planning and organizations skills;
    Effective Coaching skills for health workers and the government partners
    Strong interpersonal, analytical, communication and advocacy skills; able to contribute innovative thinking within a team;
    Excellent report writing abilities;
    Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English and Kiswahili
    Knowledge of computer applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Outlook;
    Seasoned reasoning and judgment skills; Ability to work independently with minimal supervision;
    Demonstrated experience participating and contributing to a productive team environment
    Being a resident of target counties will be an added advantage

  • National Coordinator, Health & Nutrition

    National Coordinator, Health & Nutrition

    Scope of Position
    The National Coordinator for Health & Nutrition (NCHN) position consists in ensuring coordination of all health & nutrition (H&N) programs in Kenya.
    The NCHN will report to HKI’s Regional program manager and will support all activities conducted in Kenya. The NCHN will also provide technical support to Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) programs at the regional level when required.
    The position will require some travel in various counties of Kenya and in various countries in Africa.
    The position will be located in Nairobi, Kenya.
    The key objectives of the NCHN position are:

    Provide technical support to HKI Health & Nutrition programs in Kenya.
    Ensure coordination at the national and sub national levels with Ministry of Health and relevant stakeholders.
    Support the definition of a technical strategy for Health & Nutrition in Kenya and efforts towards definition of programs and seeking of funds to implement them.
    Provide technical support to VAS programs in Africa.

    Specific Responsibilities
    The NCHN will:

    Provide technical support to HKI Health & Nutrition programs in Kenya
    Provide technical support to HKI officers in the field to run HKI H&N programs.
    Support the design and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation activities for HKI H&N programs.
    Ensure regular analysis of HKI H&N Programs including finance burn rates, program performance and program implementation
    Ensure coordination at the national and sub national levels with Ministry of Health and relevant stakeholders.
    Ensure regular and active participation to all relevant H&N forum in Kenya
    Actively participate to relevant H&N conferences in Kenya
    Ensure active coordination with Ministry of Health and relevant stakeholders in Kenya
    Support the definition of a technical strategy for Health & Nutrition in Kenya and efforts towards definition of programs and seeking of funds to implement them.
    Support the definition of a national H&N strategy for HKI in Kenya
    Support the identification of funding opportunities through regular coordination with relevant donors
    Support the preparation of proposals and budget for H&N programs in Kenya
    Provide technical support to VAS programs in Africa.
    Provide technical support to HKI VAS programs in Africa
    Provide support to the monitoring and evaluation of HKI VAS programs in Africa
    Support the production of studies and knowledge products when required

    Requirements

    Master of public health or equivalent
    At least five years experience in humanitarian programs
    Excellent English writing skills
    Demonstrated experience in advanced statistical analysis and research
    Ability to analyze data and produce reports
    Excellent communication and analytical skills
    Demonstrated experience in preparation of donors proposals, budgets and reports

  • Program Officer – Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) Programs HKI Kenya – National Coordinator for Health & Nutrition

    Program Officer – Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) Programs HKI Kenya – National Coordinator for Health & Nutrition

    Scope of Position
    The Program Officer – VAS (PO-VAS) position consists in implementing HKI VAS programs in Kenya.
    The PO-VAS will report to HKI’s National Coordinator for Health & Nutrition (NCHN). The PO-VAS will also work closely with the regional VAS manager in charge of HKI VAS programs in Africa.
    The position will require regular travel to various counties of Kenya.
    The position will be located in Nairobi, Kenya.
    The key objectives of the VAS program are:

    Ensure >90% coverage of VAS through a combination of bi-annual campaigns (Malezi Bora facility-based campaign) and routine delivery in health facilities.
    Develop ownership of VAS within the health system of targeted counties.

    The key objectives of the PO-VAS position are:

    Provide technical support to select counties of Kenya implement VAS programs through Malezi Bora campaigns and routine service delivery
    Ensure coordination of VAS activities at national and county level
    Document HKI VAS programs performance and achievements

    Specific Responsibilities
    The PO-VAS will:
    Provide technical support to select counties of Kenya implement VAS programs through Malezi Bora campaigns and routine services.

    Provide technical support to counties health Management Teams to design and implement VAS activities within Malezi Bora campaigns
    Provide technical support to counties health Management Teams in the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the integration of VAS in routine service delivery
    Support the design and implementation of post campaigns coverage surveys when required

    Ensure coordination of VAS activities at national and county level.

    Ensure coordination of VAS activities at national level through relevant forum and through individual meetings with key stakeholders
    Participate in Global Alliance for Vitamin A coordination meetings in Nairobi
    Ensure coordination of VAS activities in select counties of Kenya with Ministry of Health and stakeholders

    Document HKI VAS programs performance and achievements.

    Ensure the monitoring of HKI VAS program achievements and performance
    Ensure the implementation of HKI VAS programs and the analysis of implementation and burn rates.
    Provide support to HKI Health & nutrition program when required

    Requirements

    Holder of Bachelor in Public health or equivalent but Masters in public health (Mph) preferred.
    At least five years experience in humanitarian programs and in VAS programs
    Excellent English writing skills
    Experience in design and implementation of cross sectional surveys
    Ability to analyze data and produce reports
    Excellent communication and analytical skills
    Demonstrated experience in preparation of donors proposals, budgets and reports

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