Project Officer – Sexual Reproductive Health

Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning and Implementation

• Provide technical support in implementation of SRH information and services at the community level and ensure that they are aligned with national policies & practices.
• Ensure the project goals and milestones are met efficiently and effectively, in accordance with project budgets and work plans
• Support community-based peer networks to provide appropriate maternal new-born child health and sexual reproductive health (MNCH&SRH) messages.
• Organize and conduct campaigns and community dialogues related to ASRH, gender equity and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) issues
• Community-based family planning strategies strengthened to increase demand and utilization of family planning method/contraceptives.
• Provide appropriate MNCH&SRH messages to adolescent’s girls and young women
• Sensitization of the community on SGBV prevention, identification, reporting and referrals
• Engage the community and local leaders to address gender and sociocultural barriers to access of SRHR information and services.
• Ensure integration of gender equality and social inclusion to the activity implementation at community level.

Project Monitoring, Documentation and Reporting

• Develop quality monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines.
• Ensure timely and accurate collection of gender and age disaggregated data for MNCH/SRH for reporting and timely decision making.
• Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation as per donor requirements.
• Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
• Develop and share project implementation progress reports, impact, lesson learned and best practices.
• Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Ensure regular data reviews at the County/Sub County to fast track target achievement and quality data.
• Work with M&E officer to develop TORs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements including project baseline, midterm and end-line evaluations.

Capacity Development

• Support capacity building activities of MOH staff and community health volunteers on ASRH, SGBV and other gender related topics
• Conduct group education sessions and individual counselling on sexual reproductive health services including ASRH.
• Training of CHPs & CHCs on gender- equitable and responsive, health and SRHR information and basic service delivery including referral.
• Train religious leaders and their spouses on Channels of hope (CoH) and with focus on reducing barriers that prevent uptake of gender equitable services by adolescent girls and women.
• Ensure that frontline health workers trained on gender equitable, responsive, and compassionate health screening, treatment, and referral services
• Facilitate refresher training to facility-based health workers focusing on gender equitable and responsive health and SRHR service delivery.

Engagement, Networking and Advocacy

• Represent WVK in MNCH/SRH stakeholder and TWG meetings county and/or sub-county levels.

• Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to MNCH/SRH by county governments.
• Engaging with MOH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation MNCH/SRH.
• Identify potential areas for fundraising   and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, gender, child protection and disability at all levels.

Others

• Any other duties assigned by the supervisor

KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• A degree or Diploma in Nursing, Clinical medicine, community health or public health with at least 2 years of relevant experience in the field of RMNCAH.
• Experience working within the health system in Kenya, preferably as a service provider.
• Must be registered with the relevant regulatory body in KenyaAt least two years working experience implementing MNCH and SRH interventions at the community leve
• Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions etc
• Demonstrated ability to work in collaboration with sub-county and county MOH staff and other stakeholders.
• Excellent planning, representational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Knowledge in ASRH, capacity building, and training of providers.
• Relevant experience in working in adolescent reproductive health programs and especially Implementation of Channels of (COH)-SRH Hope Model.
• Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions.
• Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail.
• Ability to work under minimum supervision.
• Computer literacy in MS office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience working in multicultural multi-location, values driven teams.
• Experience in working on donor funded programs