Department Summary
CMMB is implementing Community focused HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment interventions in Siaya with support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria through the Kenya Red Cross Society. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to achieving Vision 2030 through universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care for all. Key to the project’s activities is contributing to the attainment of 90-90-90 HIV management cascade among the populations we serve. Amongst other result areas, the project seeks to contribute towards reduction of new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) ages 15-24 and other priority populations through the provision of behavioral and biomedical interventions to AGYWs to reduce the risk of HIV infection as well as ensuring effective care for HIV infected AGYWs. This is besides community wide activities to address community mobilization towards norms change and prevention of gender-based violence.
Overview
Under the leadership of the Country Director, The Project Assistant will support the day to day implementation of project interventions and be responsible for realization of project deliverables within their areas of operation.
Further, s/he will support operationalization of program quality, documentation, experience sharing and learning initiatives introduced by the project as well as contribute to the preparation of timely donor reports. The position will also support the project’s stakeholder engagements in the county with overall support and guidance of the Project Officer and Project Manager.
Responsibilities
Specifically, the Project Assistant will work closely with the Project Officer and M&E Officer to perform the following tasks
Project Management
Participate in planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
Review and track progress of project implementation and utilization of project resources, using participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
Maintain up-to-date documentation related to project monitoring and implementation, including up-todate performance data on the adolescent girls and young women indicators being tracked by the project.
Ensure a working environment of mutual trust, respect and care with other staff, encouraging effective teamwork with staff members and partners.
Identification, recruitment and retention of beneficiaries
Budget and Financial Management:
Ensure that project activities comply with CMMB financial guidelines, policies, procedures and regulations.
In collaboration with the finance teams and supporting the project officers, ensure timely payments of project beneficiaries and provide liquidation reports.
Participate in the preparation of annual project budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets.
Monitoring, Accountability, Evaluation and Learning
Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track project progress on project implementation.
Promote innovative/effective methods towards achievement of project objectives.
Support documentation processes of project success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and other project innovations and learnings.
Supervise and mentor the peer educators, community adolescent treatment supporters, CHVs and community advisory boards towards creating and enabling environment for the AGYWs
Support implementation of community-based project activities to ensure adherence to set quality standards.
Monitor the performance of peer educators, community adolescent treatment supporters, CHVs and community advisory boards and continuously mentor them as needed.
Work with the Project and M&E Officers to prepare donor project narrative reports, collect monthly and quarterly performance data, as well as other reports needed/required.
Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with key stakeholders on project progress and challenges.
Partnership
Engage stakeholders at all stages of the project cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of project approaches and interventions.
Qualifications
You have a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Community Health or related field.
You have at least three -year experience in community health work within a public health focused NonGovernmental Organization.
You have experience working with Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health interventions
You understand the 90 90 90 HIV management cascade
You have impressive Community mobilization experience
You have extensive understanding of Community Health Strategy and working with the various structures under the Community Health Strategy.
You have experience in the implementation of Global Fund HIV grants is an added advantage
You have communication skills, computer literacy (MS Word, Excel, Power-point)
You have excellent report writing skills
You can work under pressure and meet deadlines.
You are comfortable working for a faith-based organization.
You believe in CMMB, where we’re going, and what we can do together to achieve Healthier Lives Worldwide.
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