Vacancies for County Household Economic Strengthening Technical Officer

Background
Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) is implementing a five-year USAID 4TheChild program targeting Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), adolescent girls and young women in Western region of Kenya. The program is implemented in partnership with Moi University College of Health Sciences, and seeks to increase the use of quality county-led health and social services in the target Counties working closely with National and County government structures.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Household Economic Strengthening Manager, the County HES Technical Officer will support HES activities within USAID 4TheChild by providing coordination, accompaniment mentorship & coaching, training & technical support to local implementing partners (LIPs) focusing on implementing and managing farm enterprises, financial education, market opportunity identification/assessment, and entrepreneurship and business development services. S/he will support LIPs to liaise with relevant line government ministries and programs, the private sector, and other technical experts and agencies, to support household graduation and transition.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
• Support project sustainability towards self-reliance through the application of evidence-based HES strategies.
• Work closely with the Case Management and System Strengthening personnel in the 4TheChild Project to adapt existing case management approaches to better support HES and develop tools and benchmarks to track household progress.
• Facilitate capacity building for LIPs staff and where applicable, target communities through training, workshops, facilitated group interactions, as well as accompaniment through regular communication and site visits to support the successful implementation of HES project activities across local implementing partners.
• Support LIPs and where applicable, communities to coordinate with government officials at all levels, strengthening appropriate coordination, and technical support in implementation and follow-up of HES activities.
• Ensure that HES related activities are appropriately planned and costed for in the County and LIPs sustainability plans.
• Build capacity of LIPs on evidence based livelihoods models to better manage enterprises and engage with established markets.
• Build capacity of LIPs and other relevant stakeholders to train village-level savings groups in the seven steps of marketing (market analysis, access to information and inputs, working with financial institutions, business plan development) and link them to local markets, existing associations, financial institutions, and companies working in the agriculture sector.
• Work closely with LIPs and farmer groups to provide technical assistance, including to farmer focused village level savings (VSL) groups and caregiver groups where appropriate.
• Coordinate with social enterprise service providers in provision of livestock and crop products and other productive assets in order to encourage farm and off farm enterprises.

For full job description: https://www.kcdf.or.ke/images/2021/County_Household_Economic_Strengthening_Technical_Officer.pdf