NGO Jobs in Kenya – The Kenya Red Cross

Fire Marshals 

Job Summary

Reporting to the Safety
and Security Coordinator the Fire Marshals will be responsible for responding
to fire outbreaks, ensuring all fire accessories are well kept and maintained,
conduct alarm and evacuation tests, identify and report hazards, participate in
fire safety plan review and fire risk assessment. Other duties include
reporting fire incidents, ensuring fire-fighting equipment are installed and
retained in strategic points and keeping fire accessories inventory.

Duties and responsibilities

• Responding to fire alarms and emergency callouts
  to fire outbreak scenes, operating firefighting equipment to extinguish
  fire and rescuing people.


• Liaise with the police and ambulance service
  personnel to respond to emergency situations


• Conduct the inspection of fire scene to identify
  the cause of fire.


• Provide First Aid services to fire casualties
  before the arrival of medical team.


• Ensure availability of water supply at emergency
  scene by testing fire hydrants to confirm they are operational at all time.


• Conduct fire safety awareness and sensitization to
  the community.


• Assist with equipment maintenance and upkeep.


• Conduct simulation drills for fire outbreak
  preparedness.

Qualifications

• Possess a Kenya Certificate of Secondary School
  (KCSE).


• Must possess a fire marshal course certificate and
  a First Aid certificate from a reputable training school.


• Be physically and medically fit.


• Must be a volunteer of the Kenya Red Cross Society


• Trained RCAT will be an added advantage

 

Program Officer 

JOB SUMMARY

As Program Officer, you
will be responsible for the effective and efficient project management of the
COVID 19 vaccination project. Under the guidance of the Programme Manager you
will work closely with other departments and project teams to enable the projects
to be carried out on time and to budget and within KRCS’ quality standards of
delivery

The program officer will
support in implementing, monitoring and evaluating the activities necessary for
scaling up COVID-19 vaccination to at least 60 per cent coverage of their
populations with safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. The job will also entail
one to determine the bottlenecks to effective implementation of COVID 19
vaccination project in the community. This will involve finding solutions to
problems encountered in Vaccination hesitance, community engagement,
stakeholder ownership, vaccine management and reporting

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support for project activities,
  monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and documentation in a timely manner.


• Work with all relevant stakeholders to address
  training, on COVID 19 vaccination and capacity-building needs and deliver
  relevant interventions to the beneficiaries in the project areas.


• Advocate and liaise closely with stakeholder and
  partners in the county as a champion for increasing community-wide
  engagement prioritizing on the vulnerable population on COVID-19
  vaccination and overall response.


• Coordinate & oversee the day-to-day project
  implementation against project milestones and activities, against scheduled
  work plans and overall project objectives


• Liaise with the project teams and partners to
  ensure the successful implementation of project activities, including
  creating work plans, budgeting, reconciliation of finances, and reporting


• Work closely with other team members to ensure a
  flexible and coherent approach to implementation; and to develop and
  implement tools to evaluate the outcomes of activities, and share learning
  internally and externally


• Ensure all the project team fully comply with all
  the project and organizational policies and standards by constant
  sensitization and guidance


• Maintain necessary communication both internally
  and externally to facilitate effective coordination for project delivery


• Ensure that project volunteers and staff have
  necessary tools and capacity for implementation of the planned activities
  at the field level.


• Develop a project risk plan and proactively manage
  change and project risks at field level to continuously improve project
  implementation process, in accordance with timelines and budgets.


• Ensure adequate data quality is maintained in the
  projects by ensuring accurate, complete and submission of reliable
  datasets and reports.


• Support programmatic documentation of best
  practices, promising practices, case studies and lessons learnt for
  purposes of knowledge sharing and retention.


• Prepare periodic progress and annual reports
  showing achievements against planned targets as well as providing
  justification for performance variance and areas of improvement.


• Manage the project budget for COVID 19 vaccination
  by ensuring utilization and monitoring in accordance with KRCS
  internal controls and donor regulations


• Monitor project expenditures and ensure budget is
  strictly adhered to, financial procedures are observed

Qualifications

• Essential: University degree in public
  health or similar areas from a recognized university.


• Desirable: Advanced university degree
  (master’s degree or higher) in public health from a recognized university.


• Minimum of seven years’ experience in planning,
  managing and implementing public health programmes, including experience
  in Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and new COVID-19 vaccine.


• Working experience at field level with recognized
  Organization with expertise in health and emergencies response.


• Experience in implementation of projects in
  multi-stakeholders’ environment.


• Sound knowledge and skills in database collection
  and management.


• Proven ability to multi-task across various
  planning and implementation processes.

Key competences

• Ability to establish harmonious working
  relationships as part of a team, adapt to diverse educational and cultural
  backgrounds, and maintain a high standard of personal conduct


• Has good understanding of the principles of
  results-based management and has the ability to develop plans, organize
  resources and take actions to ensure objectives are achieved within
  realistic timelines


• Demonstrated technical expertise in strategic
  management, project planning and budgeting, resource management,
  implementation ability as well as programme monitoring and
  evaluation 


• Ability to provide technical and practical
  guidance and support to a team across geographically disbursed locations


• Strong partnership brokering skills with a proven
  ability to build and manage high-level strategic relationships



• Excellent problem solving skill-sets, able to
  navigate ambiguous and complex structures – gained through experience in
  managing complex cross-organizational projects with multiple stakeholders


• Possess strong analytical skills.


• Knowledge of institutional donors and experience
  of developing proposals


• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment
  and project reports. A high level of written and spoken English


• Excellent communication and influencing skills


• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary for
  interactions with all stakeholders.


• Sound IT knowledge including and not limited to Ms
  Word, Ms Excel, PowerPoint

 

Project Officer 

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Program
officer, the Project officer will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation, data
management, coordinating, implementation, and documentation of strategies to
effectively address project interventions. The officer will oversee the
day-to-day implementation of COVID 19 vaccination project activities at the
community level in close collaboration with program officer.

Responsibilities

• Support and oversee the day-to-day project
  implementation against project milestones and activities, against
  scheduled work plans and overall project objectives


• Work with all relevant stakeholders to facilitate
  training on COVID 19 vaccination and capacity-building needs and deliver
  relevant interventions to the beneficiaries in the project areas.


• Maintain necessary communication both internally
  and externally to facilitate effective coordination for project delivery


• Ensure that project volunteers and staff have
  necessary tools and capacity for implementation of the planned activities
  at the field level.


• Work with partners to identify needs for technical
  support and capacity building and help facilitate the provision of these
  needs in line with project goals.


• Proactively manage change and project risks at
  field level to continuously improve project implementation process, in
  accordance with timelines and budgets.


• Prepare periodic progress and annual reports showing
  achievements against planned targets as well as providing justification
  for performance variance and areas of improvement.


• Participate in design and implementation of
  project evaluations. 


• Engage target communities in all aspects of
  programme design and implementation.


• Coordinate with County and Sub County Health
  Management Committees in the outreach vaccine roll out administration.


• Work with community structures (chiefs, CHVs, KRCS
  volunteers among others) to coordinate risk commination and community
  engagement activities.


• Coordinate the community awareness and referral on
  vaccine sites and information through the CHVs and Kenya Red Cross
  Volunteers.


• Coordinate monitoring and evaluation of donor
  funded programmes in order to evaluate progress, ensure accountability,
  determine impact and report on significant achievements to ensure
  organisational learning


• Prepare inception weekly, monthly and final
  reports showing achievements against planned targets


• Monitor project expenditures and ensure budget is
  strictly adhered to, financial procedures are observed

 Qualifications

• University degree in public health or similar
  areas from a recognized university.


• Minimum of five years’ experience in planning,
  managing and implementing public health programmes, including experience
  in expanded programme on Immunization (EPI) and new COVID-19 vaccine.


• Working experience at field level with recognized
  Organization with expertise in health and emergencies response.


• Experience in implementation of projects in
  multi-stakeholders’ environment.


• Sound knowledge and skills in database collection
  and management.


• Proven ability to multi-task across various
  planning and implementation processes.

Key competences

• Knowledge of Public health programming,
  humanitarian relief issues, epidemics response.


• Strong leadership, team building, conflict
  resolution and ability to deliver the Society’s strategic objectives


• Strong report writing skills.


• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills
  including the ability to build collaborative relationships with
  sensitivity to cultural, ethnic and political issues.


• Technical expertise in strategic management,
  project planning and budgeting, resource management as well as programme
  monitoring and evaluation. 


• Demonstrated competence in resource mobilization
  including implementation of effective fundraising strategies to increase
  resource through grant proposals. 


• Ability to develop and implement accountability
  and performance management systems, as well as provide support for
  professional development.


• Ability to maintain high standards of personal
  integrity; establishing productive relationships; treating individuals
  with fairness and respect. 


• Demonstrated proficiency in computer applications
  such as word processing, spreadsheets, data-base, email and utilization of
  the internet.

How to Apply

Interested candidates who meet the above
qualifications should apply strictly through https://www.redcross.or.ke/Careers so as to reach us not later than 12th November 2021;

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.