Feed the Children (FTC) is a leading Christian International non-profit NGO whose core mission is to effectively respond to the immediate survival needs of disadvantaged children through nutritional, child sponsorship, healthcare, and family empowerment interventions.
A major programming arm of FTC provides food to children in the poor suburbs of Nairobi covering over 120,000 children every day, so enabling them to attend school.
The FTC school-feeding programme has received funding to expand its operations in Nairobi and also reach out to Mombasa.
We therefore need to fill the following positions urgently:
REF/SFP/001/09: - 5 FIELD MONITORS (3 for Mombasa and 2 for Nairobi)
Reporting to the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, the successful candidates will:
- Coordinate and closely monitor the implementation of the school feeding program in the schools.
- Monitor, review, and update all relevant records from schools under FTC Feeding program
- Oversee the distribution of commodities in the schools and ensure proper standards of storage and utilization are being observed.
- Ensure schools heads/administrators submit accurate & relevant information/data.
- Make periodical reports on food management, distribution programming, and other issues.
- Participate in special surveys and evaluations carried out in relation to the program.
- Applicants for the Mombasa positions must be native residents of Mombasa.
- Bachelor's degree in social work, nutrition, sociology, or community development.
- Two years' NGO experience working with poor communities through participatory methods.
- Creative self-starter with resilience to cover long hours of work with minimum supervision.
- Excellent report-writing skills with good written and oral presentation skills.
- Good computer skills
Reporting to the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, the successful candidate will:
- Do data entry of field data (indicators, enrolment, attendance, performance, SFP 6 forms etc)
- Perform analysis of data recorded and generation of pertinent reports
- Generation of school stock monthly reconciliation reports for donors and partners
- Participate in surveys and evaluations carried out in relation, to the program.
- Applicants must be native residents of Mombasa.
- Diploma in nutrition, community development, social work or other social study subjects.
- Excellent proficiency in Spread sheets (MS-Excel) and Databases (MS-Access).
- One year experience working in collection and management of project databases.
- Creative self-starter with resilience to cover long hours of work with minimum supervision.
Field Monitor applicants must indicate in the subject line if they are applying for Mombasa or Nairobi positions.
Applications should be sent to: hr@feedthechildren.co.ke
Closing date: 9th January 2009 at 5:00 pm
