Technical Field Facilitator - CoLMEAL and Action Grants at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

  • Nairobi
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 12 days ago
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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