Vacancy title:
Project Officer-Turiina County

Jobs at:
The Girl Child Network [GCN]

Deadline of this Job:
7th August 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

JOB DETAILS:
The Girl Child Network [GCN] is an independent. non—political, non—religious, not for profit membership organization of over 300 organizations that includes key government ministries, departments and individuals working to improve the status of children in Kenya with emphasis on the girl child. The Network was born in 1995 as a follow up of the Beijing Platform for Action and implementation of Article T2, The Girl Child. It is from this that GCN draws its mandate which is to primarily mainstream children activities with a focus on the girl child, in the development sector through advocacy, information sharing, action implementation and strengthening of children programming in Kenya. Within the Education program, GCN is implementing a project, ‘Kenya Equity in Education Project [KEEP]' that aims to increase participation of girls and children with disability in education. The KEEP project is being implemented in Turkana and Kajiado Counties. We invite suitably qualified and experienced candidates to join our dynamic team in the below specified positions:

I. Project Officer-Turiina County
The project officer shall be responsible for implementation of the project; formation and strengthening of school and community based initiatives to support girls‘ access, enrolment, retention. transition and participation in education to higher levels.

Qualifications and Experience
The successful candidate should possess a minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Education andfor Social Sciences [Arts]. Must be computer literate and have a minimum of Five [5] years‘working experience in similar field. She/he should have strong knowledge of the different dynamics in communities, good mobilization and report writing skills.

Job application procedure
Interested candidates who possess the required qualifications can send hard copy applications with detailed Cvs and relevant credentials with current and expected salary a day time telephone contact and names of 3 referees to Girl Child Network P. 0. Box 2441 -00200. Valley View Office Park Building City Park Drive off Limuru Road. Nairobi or email to: recruitment@girlchildnetwork.org  with a cc to: girlchildnetwork18@gmail.com 

Applications for all the positions close on 7th August 2018 at 4.00 p.m.
Candidates from the target regions are encouraged to apply