Mentor – Turkana – 2 Posts at Boma
JOB SUMMARY
Nawiri Program goal is to sustainably reduce persistent
acute malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu counties. Mercy Corps, consortium
lead, BOMA, Save the Children Internation and other LIP is implementing Nawiri
program that ends in September 2027. The program integrates both
nutrition specific and sensitive interventions that address drivers of acute
malnutrition at the individual, household, community and systems level. Rural
Entrepreneurship Access Project (REAP) for Nutrition (R4N), a poverty graduation
model for nutrition outcomes, is one of the interventions under Nawiri that
targets nutritional vulnerable and ultra poor households and sequence, layer
and integrate core graduation and complimentary interventions to enable
targeted households graduate out of extreme poverty and under nutrition.
Under the supervision of Field Officer directly and
indirectly by Program Coordinator, the mentor will be responsible for providing
time bound 18th months adapted coaching, mentorship and
monitoring of ultra poor and nutritional vulnerable households towards their
journey out of extreme poverty and under nutrition. As a system actor in the
reduction of PAM at scale, R4N mentor prepares participants, their businesses
and savings groups provides information, services and products including
nutritious food, income, access to markets etc to non R4N participants in last
mile communities.
Responsibilities
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate
in participant selection and enrollment of individuals and their
households in R4N program through established and agreed criteria.
- Provide
time bound (18th months) coaching, mentorship and monitoring of ultra poor
and nutritional vulnerable households towards their journey out of extreme
poverty and under nutrition.
- Organize
enrolled participants to establish and nurture various groups; umbrella
business groups, livestock aggregation groups or other value chain
aggregation groups, savings groups as per the program design.
- Support
targeted ultra poor households identify, establish and run viable and
profitable businesses that delivers products, goods, services and
information to last mile communities aligned to program goal.
- Build
strong relationships with program participants and local leaders at
village level that creates a sense of self-motivation and agency to
sustain a journey out of poverty and under nutrition
- Collaborate
with CHPs and CHAs to conduct monthly nutritional screening of children
under five years and women of reproductive age under R4N, facilitating
referrals and treatment of all SAM and MAM cases.
- Conducting
monthly group coaching at savings group level and follow at household
level on quarterly basis through a structured process – Household
Visioning and Action Plan concept.
- Conduct
monthly business groups mentorship activities, market and financial
linkages with other system actors as per the program design.
- Conduct
monthly savings groups capacity building activities including facilitating
savings and lending sessions, financial literacy trainings, registration
of savings groups and linkages with PSPs and financial system actors
- Conducting
monthly nutritional education and counselling, WASH, SSBC and Livelihood
diversification on monthly basis as per the program design.
- Coordinate
with USAID Nawiri and community frontline workers including GIRL H
mentors, BOY Group mentors, Male champions, CHPs, CHA, AM2MSG lead
mothers, Producer group lead farmers at location level to drive one Nawiri
approach in addressing Persistent Acute Malnutrition.
- Participate
in health facility monthly data review meetings
PROGRAM MONITORING AND REPORTING
- Collect
data in a structured process as per M&E plan to track the progress of
individuals, households, business groups and savings groups towards
graduation.
- Data
integrity: Adherence to data quality as outlined in data quality
SoP.
- Maintain
monthly HH, BGs and SGs mentor performance key performance indicators as
outlined in M&E plan.
- Utilize
all assigned monitoring tools and data collection tools as guided by Field
Officer, M&E and IT departments.
- Maintain
all working tools, tablets and motorcycles in good working condition at
all times, fuel logs and other repairs are submitted on time.
- Prepare
participants for BHA and other important visits at the community level.
- Participate
in weekly, monthly and quarterly review and reflection meetings, planning
meetings as planned.
- Any
other assignments as guided by your supervisor.
Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Diploma
in community health and nutrition, public health, community development,
social work, or another related discipline.
- At
least two years’ experience in similar community work; with proven
experience in data collection
- Have
a valid motorcycle license A1/A2 and has experience on how to ride a
motorcycle
- Possess
excellent soft skills – interpersonal skills; communication, empathy,
problem solving, conflict resolution, collaboration,
- Have
basic experience in mobile data collection, Microsoft office, self-driven,
and able to work with minimum supervision
- Ability
to utilize data to make informed decisions
- MUST
be a resident of respective village in which R4N interventions will be
implemented.
Application Administrator – PI at Boma
Application Administrator
Overall Purpose:
The Application Administrator will work as part of the IT
team dedicated to ensuring that BOMA is maximizing efficiency and capitalizing
on the full features and benefits of program management system based on the
various user and organizational needs. This role will serve as the lead
application administrator and developer of Salesforce Program Management System
(Performance Insight) and Taroworks, promoting system adoption, keeping current
on new releases and AppExchange solutions, leading training, and custom system
development projects.
Responsibilities
Requirements analysis for the Program Management
Information System – Salesforce
- Proactively
seek out and identify needed system changes.
- Proactively
gather feedback from users.
- Manage
system changes without interruption to the user.
- Communicate
system changes to the users in advance so they understand the change and
how to use it prior to implementation.
- Plan
and undertake modifications of the system to increase benefits and
usability.
- Manage
all processes that impact / relate to Salesforce.
Develop and implement changes to the Program Management
Information System (Salesforce)
- Manage
new releases of SF and efficiently roll out new features
- Read
the release notes for any third-party application or plug-in connected to
Salesforce.com. Typically, changes and upgrade cycles will be harmless,
but occasionally several configuration and operational changes will be
required because of external changes.
- Create
and maintain fields, views, reports, dashboards, campaigns and other
Salesforce objects and functions.
- Create
custom objects when necessary.
- Handle
on-going customization/ alteration of Salesforce.
- Maintain,
enhance, and create workflows, functions and configurations within the
Salesforce environment.
- Create
new reporting capabilities and respond to ad hoc reporting requests as
needed.
- Provide
support functions as needed.
Maintenance of the SF System Based on Recommended Best
Practices
- Undertake
recommended periodic application maintenance procedures to ensure that the
system is operating as required
- Undertake
periodic maintenance of any third party integration and capacity of
various tables ensuring that Salesforce operates optimally for BOMA.
- Provide
subject matter expertise for solution architecture that will include
configuration, development, integration, and customization of complex
solutions within our salesforce.
Maintain
System, Security and Integrity
- Map
Salesforce hierarchy and territories in response to personnel changes.
- Reassign
Accounts, Contacts, and Opportunities in response to personnel changes.
- Grant/
remove and maintain user licenses.
- Maintain
security including sharing rules and security levels.
- Design,
Create and maintain user roles, profiles and hierarchies.
- Monitor
application storage usage and archive data as needed.
User
Assistance, Training, Adoption and Satisfaction
- Lead
administration of training to existing or new users/groups.
- Expand
use of Salesforce – attend planning meetings, assist with determining if
/how Salesforce can be used in new ways.
- Communicate
regularly with user base regarding new features, enhancements, and changes
to the system.
- Continually
seek ways to further enhance the end-user experience.
Process
Creation, Documentation and Maintenance
- Document
company processes and workflows.
- Develop
process documentation and field maps.
- Create
new processes and associated reporting.
Data Quality, Migration and Maintenance
- Assist
with migration from older systems/processes into Salesforce.
- Import
data as appropriate.
- Monitor
and manage exception logs for back-end system integration with SFDC.
- Manage
duplicate records.
- Monitor
and improve data quality
- Taking
up any other additional duties and responsibilities that are assigned from
time to time.
Personality
Attributes for the Job
- A
belief in BOMA Mission – Working with the ultra poor to end poverty in
ASAL regions of Africa
- Excellent
communication and relationship management skills
- Analytical,
solution-oriented mindset and a willingness to explore, discover and learn
new things
- Willingness
to step up when needed with delayed gratification
- Self-awareness,
self-drive (personal initiative) and leading by example
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Relevant
Tertiary Qualification/recognition of prior learning.
- At
least 3 Years of working experience in Applications administration,
Application development Application support in a busy technology intensive
environment
- At
least 3 year’s experience with Salesforce and Taroworks and similar
systems as a developer and/or functional consultant
- At
least 2 year’s experience with Microsoft applications including
SharePoint, MS Business Central and Office productivity and
- Demonstration
of understanding and experience with at least 2 software development
languages -C#, Java or PHP.
- Working
knowledge of Financial & Project Management.