Mentor (SOIL) - Balesa, Marsabit

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop a deeper understanding of the Nutrition sensitive poverty graduation model and the SOIL program components especially on nutrition, entrepreneurship and natural resource management.
• Ensure quality program delivery of the scope, within time and on budget with a strong focus on individual accountability.
• Ensure the program delivery meets BOMA’s standards for operational excellence and donor expectations.
• Collaborate with the program partners including schools, health facilities and county government departments.
• Play a key role in participant selection, training, mentorship and coaching, household dialogues, grants transfer, business startup and linkages to markets
• Support participants to form Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) and link them to other formal financial institutions
• Implement monthly Agri-nutrition training and Nutrition sensitive adaptations for nutrition resilience package for HHs and Groups under your mentorship including nutritional screening/Assessment, nutritional education and training (Agri nutrition), nutritional counselling, referral, HHs dialogues, HHs visioning and action planning.
• Coordinate with Community Health Promoters to facilitate completion of linkages and referral of Severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition cases every month.
• In a collaborative process with the community (Participatory Wealth Ranking) and BOMA Location Committees, target and identify eligible women and children for the program, based on BOMA’s participant selection criteria.
• Ensure data in BGs, SG record books is accurate and represent the true picture/performance of Businesses, savings and individual HH members.
• 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.
• Sensitize participants on R4N interventions, graduation metrics and facilitate participants access to market, financial, Community Health Systems, production, weather, context information.
• Work very closely with Community Health Promoters (CHPs), REAP Location Committees and other stakeholders in their locations to promote improved nutrition outcomes
• Any other assignments as guided by your supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least a Diploma in community health and nutrition, public health, nutrition, community development, social work, or another related discipline.
• At least two years’ experience in similar work; with proven experience in business coaching and data collection
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills; candidates should be able to relate well to both the women with whom we work.
• Have basic experience in mobile data collection and Microsoft office
• Motivated, self-driven, and able to work with minimum supervision.
• MUST be a resident, where of respective ward or village in which SOIL interventions will be implemented.
• Good command of English, Swahili and local language.
• Have a valid motorcycle license and experience of how to ride a motorcycle.