067 Mentor Lishe Bora Dabel, Moyale
Kenya
Contract
Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION - MENTOR
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Job Title |
Mentor |
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Program |
Lishe Bora |
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Reports to |
Field Officer |
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Job titles of persons supervised |
None |
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Locations |
Dabel, Moyale |
1. ABOUT BOMA
BOMA is working to lift 3 million people out of extreme poverty by 2027. BOMA’s mission is to provide the people and governments of Africa’s drylands with economic inclusion programs that increase resilience to multiple crises. Founded 15 years ago to eliminate extreme poverty among pastoralist women in Kenya, BOMA has since transformed the lives of more than 704,352 women, youth and refugees in the drylands of Africa. BOMA stands out for its focus on last mile populations of the drylands of Africa, who are most at risk to shocks from climate change and COVID-19, tech savvy and data driven approach, impressive graduation rate and 99% local structure based in Africa.
Find out more about BOMA by visiting our website
2. JOB SUMMARY
BOMA is recognized for developing an innovative, gender-focused poverty graduation model for the extreme-poor women in the ASALs, the Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP). This long-term program offers a highly sequenced, layered and timebound set of interventions that help the poorest and most vulnerable women gain financial literacy, receive one to two years of mentoring in businesses and life skills, and through a conditional cash grant provided by BOMA, start small businesses to earn an income and establish savings groups, and build their resilience to shocks and strengthen social capital.
Where BOMA finds the highest rates of chronic malnutrition, BOMA has layered nutrition specific interventions on top of REAP to address the drivers of food insecurity and persistent and acute malnutrition to develop a new model called REAP for Nutrition. Based on learning and early results, REAP for Nutrition – with two primary adaptions focused on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive models – has tremendous potential to scale up across Kenya and beyond in all of ASAL countries in which BOMA is operating. Lishe Bora is a nutrition Sensitive program under REAP for Nutrition portfolio and being implemented in Isiolo, Marsabit, Moyale Kenya and Moyale Ethiopia
Under the supervision of Field Officer directly and indirectly by Program Coordinator, the mentor recruited under Lishe Bora will be responsible for implementation of REAP for Nutrition activities at the targeted mentor location that are designed to graduate ultra poor and nutritional vulnerable households graduate out of poverty, household hunger and Malnutrition.
Responsibilities
3. TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
3.1 Implement poverty graduation for nutrition (R4N) interventions and activities (graduation components) at the village level (targeted) as designed and approved by BOMA.
3.2 In collaboration with FOs, orient participants on metrics of success (graduation criteria) including pillars for nutrition resilience.
3.3 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.
3.4 Coordinate with Community Health Promoters to facilitate completion of linkages and referral of Severe acute malnutrition and moderate acute malnutrition cases every month.
3.5 Facilitate quarterly household dialogues to transfer skills and knowledge that HHs will utilize to sustain positive behaviors and practices for nutrition resilience even after graduation.
3.6 Facilitate growth of allocated businesses (Business groups) to profitability by conducting monthly business coaching and mentorship transferring relevant business and entrepreneurship skills including numeracy and literacy skills as enshrined in the business mentorship guide.
3.7 In a collaborative process with the community (Participatory Wealth Ranking) and BOMA Location Committees, target and identify eligible women for the program, based on BOMA’s criteria.
3.8 Conduct 100% coaching, mentorship, training and monitoring of allocated business groups and savings groups on monthly basis.
3.9 Ensure data in BGs, SG record books is accurate and represent the true picture/performance of Businesses, savings and individual HH members.
3.10 Facilitate formation and training of savings groups to conduct savings and lending activities as per the savings groups micro training schedule.
3.11 Support Household graduation self-assessment and other M&E graduation assessment, data collection activities as per need.
3.12 Utilize all assigned monitoring tools and data collection tools as guided by Field Officer, M&E and IT departments.
3.13 Maintain all working tools, tablets and motorcycles in good working condition at all times, fuel logs and other repairs are submitted on time.
3.14 Sensitize participants on Lishe Bora interventions, graduation metrics and facilitate participants access to market, financial, Community Health Systems, production, weather, context information.
3.15 Work very closely with Community Health Promoters (CHPs), REAP Location Committees and other stakeholders in their locations to promote improved health outcomes.
3.16 Any other assignments as guided by your supervisor.
Requirements
4. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
4.1 At least a Diploma in community health and nutrition, public health, community development, social work, or another related discipline.
4.2 At least two years’ experience in similar work; with proven experience in data collection
4.3 Possess excellent interpersonal skills; candidates should be able to relate well to both the women with whom we work.
4.4 Have basic experience in mobile data collection, Microsoft office, self-driven, and able to work with minimum supervision.
4.5 MUST be a resident where of respective ward or village in which Lishe Bora interventions will be implemented.
4.6 Good command of English, Swahili and local language.
4.7 Have a valid motorcycle license (Class A1/A2) and has experience on how to ride a motorcycle
“Strongly encouraged – Have a valid motorcycle license (Class A1/A2) and experience on how to ride a motorcycle or (at least present a motorcycle license within the first 3 months of employment)”
5. HOW TO APPLY
Interested and suitable qualified candidates to submit their application, through BOMA’s recruitment portal on FlairHR using this link below.
Applications must be received by 18th March 2025. Late applications will not be considered.
While we thank all applicants for expressing interest in the role, please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Note - Preference will be given to candidates who come from and are currently residing in Dabel location in Moyale
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