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Community – Led Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (Co- MEAL) Officer at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Job Description

The CoLMEAL Officer will lead and strengthen community-led monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes within the TOGETHER Project. The role focuses on strengthening community-led rights protection among AGWs by equipping them and their community leaders with the skills and tools needed to identify challenges, generate evidence, and drive locally led solutions to SRHR/SGBV issues. Through sustained mentorship, technical guidance, and collaboration with community structures and health system actors, the CoLMEAL Officer supports the scale-up of community-driven approaches that improve service delivery, accountability, and long-term protection outcomes.

Specific Tasks

• Design, initiate, and facilitate productive, collaborative, respectful, and solution-oriented community-level monitoring evaluation, accountability, and learning systems.
• Provide technical leadership in planning, scheduling, and implementing CoLMEALxactivities, ensuring all processes are carried out and reported within workplan timelines.
• Facilitate and support community monitoring teams to make evidence-based decisionsxand report results, while guiding community members to identify their SGBV issues,xdefine the changes they want to see, and develop their own indicators and measures ofxsuccess to strengthen community ownership.
• Foster and maintain strong relationships with community members, local government, and other stakeholders by promoting community-led rights protection and integrating SRHR/SGBV activities within existing community and government structures. This includes supporting the initiation and strengthening of community-based processes and systems for data collection, analysis, service delivery, and long-term project sustainability.
• Develop and implement work plans for the CoLMEAL scale-up, ensuring they strengthen community-led rights protection among AGWs.
• Actively identify and incorporate opportunities to link CoLMEAL activities with other ongoing program interventions.
• Conduct engagement activities with local, regional, and national stakeholders for policy change and impacts on the ground.
• Act as the lead trainer on CoLMEAL by providing targeted mentorship, skills-building, and continuous guidance to community members—including marginalized and vulnerable groups—to enable them to lead their own MEAL processes. This includes training and coaching in community-led rights protection, data collection, analysis, validation, dissemination, reporting, and the effective use of evidence to achieve the project’s intended outcomes.
• Work with communities to co-design data collection tools (e.g., surveys, FGD guides) that are context-specific, fit-for-purpose, and accessible to different groups in line with their pathways.
• Promote data use and learning by ensuring that information gathered from the field is primarily used by communities for decision-making, adaptive management, continuous learning, and project reporting.
• Support communities to use their self-generated evidence to foster accountability and drive SRHR/SGBV advocacy, including holding duty-bearers accountable, advocating for improved services, and influencing local SRHR/SGBV policies and decision-making processes.
• Provide support in project communication to ensure all stakeholders are informed about project objectives, activities, progress, and opportunities for involvement throughout implementation.
• Contribute to the development of the Program implementation Plan (PIP), annual work plans and detailed implementation plans (DIPs) to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education University degree in statistics, demographics, public health, or international development with additional training in the field of monitoring and evaluation is preferred.
• Experience At least three (3) years of experience in project implementation, with demonstrated expertise in community-led approaches for rights protection and their contribution to enhancing protection rights against GBV and CEFM.
• Extensive experience in facilitating training and mentorship, with a strong focus on community empowerment and GBV prevention/response.
• Strong background in participatory analysis, community evidence generation, and supporting communities to use evidence for action, advocacy, and accountability.

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Project Manager- TOGETHER Project at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Job Description (Summary)

The Project Manager provides technical leadership, day-to-day management, and coordination of
the TOGETHER project at the field level in Turkana County. The position works closely with
implementing partners and relevant government departments to ensure effective planning,
implementation, and support for all project activities.

Specific Tasks

Project Implementation and Accountability:

• Ensure the timely planning of project activities through the development of Program Implementation Plan (PIP), Annual Work Plans, Detailed Implementation Plans, Monthly Activity Schedules and Procurement Plans.
• Oversee the accomplishment of the project activities in line with the project plans and DIPs within the approved project timeframes.
• Identify and manage project risks, whilst ensuring timely communication of emerging risks and possible mitigation measures, to the programs department.
• Ensures timely preparation and summation of all activity approvals, financial and purchase requests for all related project activities by the project staff, as well as timely reporting (programmatic and financial reporting).
• Develop strategic innovations that enhance the sustainability of the project and create an opportunity for scale up or future funding.
• Ensure that quality and standards are maintained through the entire project implementation.
• Staff Management
• Supervises 15+ staff assigned to the project.
• Guide, mentor and coach the project staff under his/her supervision in ensuring quality planning, execution, monitoring and reporting of the project activities.
• Set achievable targets and key performance indicators for the project staff, in line with the project objectives.
• Conduct performance appraisals for the project staff, and report to the programs and HR department.
• Ensures clear communication amongst the project staff, proper behavioral conduct and an amicable way of resolving issues. Escalate issues that need attention of and action by the senior management.
• Mentor the project staff on project implementation, collaborations, stakeholder relations, project reporting and communications.
• Identify any staff training needs and propose to the Programs Department.
• Project Monitoring, Reporting and Transition
• Responsible for the overall monitoring of the implementation progress of the project in line with the project outcome and output indicators.
• Ensures all project reports (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual) are prepared and submitted as per the donor guidelines (ensuring timeliness and quality). Progress reports may be requested on a need-basis.
• Prepare a timely project exit strategy and plan, for gradual and system planning to the end of the project.
• Stakeholder Management and Collaborations
• Map out, document, and share on a regular basis all the stakeholders relevant to the project.
• Identify and address any needs amongst the stakeholders, which may influence the project implementation.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with other implementing organizations and stakeholders within the project location.
• Strategically engages relevant County partners and stakeholders in the project activities.
• Represent ADRA Kenya in all relevant County and Stakeholder forums including CSGs.
• Actively participate in County planning meetings and/or with other agencies, for strategic maximization of possible complementary funding of the project activities.
• Documentation:
• Responsible for the safe keeping and filling of all project documents including the Agreements, Project Proposals, Change Requests/Proposals, Budgets, Quarterly, Baseline, Quarterly, End-Evaluation and Project Closure reports and back-up on the office server.
• Lead the project officers in documenting project and submitting success stories with every progress report.
• Lead the project officers in ensuring that all project photos and all relevant media from the project initiation to closure are deposited in a named project folder and backed up in the office cloud server.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Support the design and development of new concept and proposals for related programming information management and reporting
• The Project Manager may be tasked with additional duties within their level of expertise and experience as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education University degree in Project Management, Development Studies, Health, Education, Gender, or any other relevant academic qualifications
• Experience At least 3-year experience in a comparable position
• Knowledge in project management (technical, budgets and staff/people management)
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and management, including project/program development and implementation and grants’ management
• Experience in Health, rights and educations related programming
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties, of Kenya particularly, Turkana region.

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Technical Field Facilitator – Health at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

The Technical Field Facilitator Health will support the implementation of gender- and ageresponsive health services under the STRONGER project. This role will be responsible for strengthening the capacity of health care workers, supporting the delivery of inclusive and quality SRHR and GBV services, and ensuring outreach and clinical interventions are aligned with project goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Health Systems Strengthening and Capacity Building
• Work with County Health Management Teams (CHMTs), facility staff, and community health structures to identify capacity gaps.
• Facilitate trainings and refresher sessions for Primary Health Care Workers (PHWs), Community Health Volunteers (CHVs), and Community Health Promoters (CHPs) on
• GAR, SRHR, and survivor-centered GBV care.
• Support integration of environmental and climate-sensitive practices into health service delivery.
• Outreach and Clinical Service Support
• Support mobile and facility-based SRHR/GBV outreach services, ensuring availability of clinical and psychosocial support.
• Collaborate with facility staff and other partners to operationalize GBV Help Desks and ensure AGW can access needed services.
• Monitor service availability and quality across community and facility-level interventions
• Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement
• Participate in local health stakeholder forums, including health sector working groups.
• Work with local health facilities to implement referral pathways and community sensitization on available health services.
• Link communities to supportive services including family planning, mental health, and youth-friendly care.
• Monitoring, Learning, and Documentation
• Collect and analyze health-related data, including disaggregated indicators on service uptake.
• Document case studies, lessons learned, and innovative practices in health systems strengthening.
• Support preparation of reports, learning materials, and presentation of outcomes to the broader STRONGER team and partners.

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education Diploma in public health, Nursing, Clinical Medicine, Community Health, or related discipline
• Experience Minimum 1 years’ experience working in community or facility-based health programming.
• Demonstrated experience in SRHR, GBV prevention and response, or health system capacity building.
• Experience working in ASAL or similarly marginalized contexts will be an added adavantage

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Technical Field Facilitator – CoLMEAL and Action Grants (2 Positions) at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Key Responsibilities

• Community Engagement and CoLMEAL Implementation
• Help train youth, girls, women, and local leaders on CoLMEAL tools and simple ways to collect and use data.
• Assist in setting up and supporting CoLMEAL Groups in villages and helping them stay active.
• Mobilize community members for meetings, trainings, or special events when needed.
• Act as the main contact between the community and ADRA Kenya to share information and feedback.
• Action Grants Administration and Oversight
• Help community groups (especially youth and women groups) create gender-aware proposals that solve local problems.
• Assist the CoLMEAL Officer during trainings on grant writing, budgets, and basic risk management.
• Visit grantee groups regularly to check progress and help solve small problems.
• Make sure community groups keep simple records like signed attendance lists, photos, and legal receipts.
• Support monitoring of how the small grants are spent and report anything that needs support or correction.
• Participatory Monitoring, Learning, and Knowledge Management
• Support CoLMEAL groups to collect and record gender-disaggregated data and other useful information.
• Use basic CoLMEAL and MEARL tools to track what’s working and what needs change in activities.
• Help plan or participate in small community learning or feedback forums.
• Share useful information with the CoLMEAL Officer and help write short community updates when needed.
• Participatory Monitoring, Learning, and Knowledge Management
• Support the communications or advocacy officer to document short stories, quotes, or events from the community.
• Help organize community forums and feedback sessions, like scorecard meetings orbarazas.
• Build and maintain good relationships with ward-level government offices, CBOs, and youth/women leaders.
• Keep regular contact with the ADRA team to make sure the community activities stay on track and challenges are reported early.

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education Diploma in Social Sciences, Diploma in Community Development or Social Work or related discipline
• Experience At least 1 year of experience in community development, participatory monitoring and evaluation, grants administration, or grassroots advocacy.
• Experience working with community groups
• Working in Kakuma will be an added advantage

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Administration/Human Resource Manager at Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA Kenya)

We’re Hiring!

Position: Administration/Human Resource Manager

Location; Nairobi, Kenya

Deadline: 01 May 2025, 5:00 PM

Local Position-Kenyan Citizens Only

ADRA Kenya is looking for a dynamic and qualified Admin/HR Manager to lead its Human Resource and Administrative functions. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact by shaping a thriving and compliant workplace, fostering employee engagement, and supporting organizational growth.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Leading HR policy development and compliance
• Overseeing recruitment, onboarding, and performance management
• Coordinating payroll and staff welfare
• Supervising admin operations and supporting travel logistics
• Leading safeguarding and protection efforts,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or Business Management
• IHRM membership (Kenya)
• 3+ years’ HR experience (2+ in an INGO preferred)
• Strong understanding of Kenya labor laws.
• Excellent communication, organization, and leadership skills

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No email applications will be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, of At ADRA, we are committed to creating a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace.