Job Overview.

Reporting to the Senior Administrative Manager, The Community Liaison and Outreach Senior Officer will be involved in maintaining a constant flow of direct-to-client events and activities that ensure the communities we serve know about our projects and services, our impact statements, and our community obligations.

Key deliverables.

Project Management

• Provide technical support to all the project staff and project partners on awareness creation, training, and overall project activities implementation.
• Support designing of project activities, development of logical frameworks and performance indicators. Co-ordinate programme/project assessments, planning, implementation monitoring and reporting.
• Provide team management support in terms of feedback, communication, and skill development to keep staff, partners and other stakeholder motivated and committed to project deliverables.
• Develop and implement strategies that ensure visibility of the organization and its outreach projects.
• Liaise closely with other departments e.g., libraries, computer Centre, social work to share/contribute content/information for dissemination.

Networking and Resource Mobilization

• Develop project proposals including budgets for the outreach projects and seek other project sustainability strategies.
• Foster and leverage on working partnerships with key national and county level partners for greater impact and scale. This also entails identifying new initiatives/partners, where Outreach Project might wish to have a greater focus in the future.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Coordinate and support preparation and submission of technical and financial reports for the outreach projects according to the organization’s reporting guidelines and donor policies.
• Ensure timely tracking and reporting of project implementation and achievement of expected results against planned objectives and targets.

Experience and Skills Required

• Preferably a master’s degree in social work, Community Development, Project Management and/or related fields. Project Management certification is an added advantage.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in community related programs, With at least Five or more years in a leadership position.
• Excellent in logistics planning, passionate networker, excellent negotiations skills, good mobiliser who can forge positive alliance and collaboration with the community leaders, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Exceptional verbal, written, presentation and listening communication skills including report writing.
• Excellent skills on Project Planning, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Computer literate.