Responsibilities for the High School Counselling and Mentoring Lead Job
Counselling and guidance of our students:
Instilling our organizational values and mould leadership behaviours in the students through one on one and group interactions
Giving emotional support to the students in moments of personal crisis
Closely working with the scholarship coordinator to address academic issues
Keeping all stakeholders informed of arising issues and recommending course of action to the team
Pointing students to other support options in cases where we can’t support in-house
Ensuring confidentiality when handling personal issues
Coordination of the holiday mentoring program:
Curriculum design; Planning our programmes, the learning objectives and how to achieve them
Conducting desk research and developing presentations and trainings
Coming up with creative ways of strengthening values and unleashing leadership potential in the students
Identifying and bringing on board relevant speakers (liaising with mentors database)
Coordinating our 8-month gap year program:
Developing the curriculum which the gap year students will use to teach at secondary schools, constantly improving the life skills program
Enabling all gap year students are effective peer mentors by organizing and running train the trainer seminars
Liaising with schools to schedule our visits
Quality assurance of the program and ensuring learning outcomes for our gap year students and the trained audience
Helping students plan for tertiary education:
One-on-one meetings with gap year students during university admission period e.g. advising on how to fill out KUCCPS forms
Run the university orientation week e.g. an education event around university life
Hand over all students to the person in charge of university student mentorship
Supporting in family strengthening:
One on one work with parents where relevant
Planning and conducting afternoon events covering relevant topics (e.g. monitoring student performance, health, improving your house, financial management etc)
High School Counselling and Mentoring Lead Job Qualifications
You are highly passionate about the youth and have strong commitment to dealing with all types of challenges they encounter
You are able to build strong rapport and trusted relationships with students at high school age. You know how to balance between being warm and friendly while setting clear expectations
You will play a parental role to over one hundred students, so vast experience in handling adolescent youth and a mature character are required
You are empathetic and a great listener
You have the ability to influence
You have a community engagement mindset
You have vast experience in designing and running trainings
You are a role model in your community – you will stand for our values to parents and students
You have at least two to three years experience in counselling, especially in the adolescence stage
You have worked with low-income youth before
You have experience in holding training and facilitation of workshops
You hold relevant degrees, for example a diploma in psychology and/or counselling
Ability in data tracking
You have the cultural fit to work with the team at Hatua Likoni, if
You are 100% values driven and you want to instil strong values in the next generation
You enjoy working with and in the community
You are great team player, people talk about you being helpful and collaborative
You are able to work independently and bring results in an unstructured environment
You enjoy diversity and you are generally optimistic about the future
Why work with us?
We get a lot of fulfilment by working with underprivileged youth and seeing them transform their lives over the 9 years they engage closely with us. If you enjoy building deep emotional connections and seeing the impact of your work, this job is for you
Our team has a deep sense of ownership over the organization. Everyone has the chance to take a leadership role and contribute to the organization’s growth
Build interesting networks
We believe in personal growth and you will have a lot of opportunity for career development as the organization grows
We have a sense of family in the team and there is some level of flexibility around working hours
Other information
The successful candidate will start in February 2017. You will be based in Mombasa, and work in our Likoni office. You should be ready to commit to this role for at least two years. We’ll arrange a 3-month probation period with learning and delivery objectives.
go to method of application »
