Position Title: Community Liaison and Outreach Manager
Reports to: Country Director (Kenya)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Job Overview: Reporting to the Country Director, The Community Liaison and Outreach Manager will be involved in maintaining a constant flow of direct-to-client events and activities that ensure the communities we serve know about our projects and services, our impact statements and our community obligations.
Responsibilities
Project Management
- Provide technical support to all the project staff and project partners on awareness creation, training, and overall project activities implementation
- Support designing of project activities, development of logical frameworks and performance indicators. Co-ordinate programme/project assessments, planning, implementation monitoring and reporting.
- Provide team management support in terms of feedback, communication and skill development to keep staff, partners and other stakeholder motivated and committed to project deliverables
- Develop and implement strategies that ensure visibility of the organization and its outreach projects
- Liaise closely with other departments e.g., libraries, computer Centre, social work to share/contribute content/information for dissemination.
Networking and Resource Mobilization
- Develop project proposals including budgets for the outreach projects and seek other project sustainability strategies.
- Foster and leverage on working partnerships with key national and county level partners for greater impact and scale. This also entails identifying new initiatives/partners, where Outreach Project might wish to have a greater focus in the future.
Monitoring and Reporting
- Coordinate and support preparation and submission of technical and financial reports for the outreach projects according to the organization’s reporting guidelines and donor policies.
- Ensure timely tracking and reporting of project implementation and achievement of expected results against planned objectives and targets
Qualifications
- Preferably a Master’s Degree in Development studies, Project Management and/or related fields. Project Management certification is an added advantage. At least 10 years of relevant experience. With Five or more years in management position
Required Skills and Competencies
- Excellent in logistics planning, passionate networker, excellent negotiations skills, good mobiliser who can forge positive alliance and collaboration with the community leaders, partners, and other stakeholders
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Exceptional verbal, written, presentation and listening communication skills including report writing
- Excellent skills on Project Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Computer literate.
How to Apply
If you believe you are the right candidate for this position, having met the set requirements, please write to us through jobs@micato.co.ke attaching your detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter indicating the position on the subject line.
Application to reach us by COB of 25 July 2022