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Girl Child Network Worldwide is the lead organisation in empowering and educating girls in Africa making it the only grassroots organisation for girls sharing its model beyond country of origin. Our Girl Child Empowerment Model is replicated all over the world by everyone. We inspire girls to take leadership in gender equality at community level. We belie...

Responsibilities or duties

The Project Officer will be responsible for:

• Supporting coordination of county-level activities and stakeholders in both Kakuma and Dadaab.
• Supporting stakeholder mapping and engagement to identify key actors, influence, power dynamics,and opportunities for building coalitions for education reform.
• Supporting coordination of participatory processes for co-creating education systems- strengthening strategies, action plans, and change pathways with stakeholders.
• Implementing activities in accordance with GCN policies, partner requirements,
• Contributing to the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Maintaining an organized system for filing and retrieving financial records and supporting documents. safeguarding standards, and relevant government policies and frameworks.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or any other related field.
• Ability to engage effectively with communities and stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to engage and mobilize diverse groups of community members and stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation skills, including familiarity with training in participatory methods, and excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with significant experience working with children affected by crisis/conflict .
• Commitment to human/children’s rights and an understanding of rights-based approaches and their application.

Experience needed

Minimum of 3 years of experience, preferably in the NGO sector.

• Supporting coordination of county-level activities and stakeholders in both Kakuma and Dadaab.
• Supporting stakeholder mapping and engagement to identify key actors, influence, power dynamics,and opportunities for building coalitions for education reform.
• Supporting coordination of participatory processes for co-creating education systems- strengthening strategies, action plans, and change pathways with stakeholders.
• Implementing activities in accordance with GCN policies, partner requirements,
• Contributing to the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Maintaining an organized system for filing and retrieving financial records and supporting documents. safeguarding standards, and relevant government policies and frameworks.

• Ability to engage effectively with communities and stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to engage and mobilize diverse groups of community members and stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation skills, including familiarity with training in participatory methods, and excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with significant experience working with children affected by crisis/conflict .
• Commitment to human/children’s rights and an understanding of rights-based approaches and their application.

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences or any other related field.