The Leonard Cheshire East & North African Regional (ENAR) Office was established in 1998 with its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The regional programme supports 8 countries in East and North Africa; Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan, Morocco and the Seychelles and Rwanda.
The project, Strengthening Inclusive Education and Assessment Support for Disabled School Children is based in Nyando District, Kisumu County. It is an initiative aimed at supplementing Leonard Cheshire Disability’s (LCD) efforts in enabling thousands of disabled children to access Primary Education in Kenya
Job summary:
The Project Assistant will be based in Leonard Cheshire Disability’s Kisumu office and will provide administrative and programming support for the Nyanza Inclusive Education Programme as required.
Responsibilities:
• Assist in the developing and maintaining project deliverables under the direction of the manager as stipulated in the project document
• Be part of the team that develops, maintains and updates monthly, quarterly and annual project activities calendar
• Assist in a variety of project administrative duties including disseminating project information to stakeholders; arrange logistics for meetings, trainings and other project related event e.g. preparing the agendas, presentations, necessary materials, reports.
• Monitoring project achievements on behalf of the project manager
• Participate in the organization of and conducting of community based trainings
• Collect and enter relevant project data including KPI’s and reporting these in the relevant formats
• Record key decisions and action items resulting from meetings (taking minutes and drafting memos)
• Participate in project development
• Work with project counterparts at different levels
• Participate in networking activities
Person specification
• At least diploma in education or social science
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• Good organizational skills, detail oriented, good judgment and ability to work independently
• Experience of putting together written reports
• At least 2 years experience working in development with an NGO and should have experience of directly working with local communities
• Basic knowledge of the education system and disability issues in Kenya
• Computer proficiency, spanning Microsoft applications and other key data processing software
• Interest in and ability to work with persons with disabilities and their families
• Sign language interpretation skills and the ability to speak the local language would be an added advantage
• Persons with disability are encouraged to apply
To apply: Please submit your application and CV to Info@lcd-enar.org and orpatieno@yahoo.com Deadline for application will be 20/ 04/2012
Project Assistant Leonard Cheshire Disability
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