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