Africa’s Voices Group Facilitator ( Bukusu) NGO Kenya Jobs

Position Title: Bukusu Speaking Listening Group Facilitator (2 positions)

Position Type: Consultancy contract

Duration: 2 months

Application deadline: 4th February 2021, 5.00 pm, East Africa Time (EAT)

Location: Bungoma County, Kenya

Languages: Bukusu and English

Daily Rate: USD 30 per day (7.5 hours per day)

Start Date: March 2021

Background

AVF is a fast-growing organisation, capitalizing on interactive media and digital communications to curate and spark engaging discussions that convene citizens’ voices as evidence and elevate them to the level of decision-making.

Spun out of cutting-edge research at the University of Cambridge in 2015, we have an established presence in East Africa and beyond with a vibrant growing core team in Nairobi. Our clients include UNDP, UNICEF, the European Union, ICRAF, Somalia Stability Fund, and the MasterCard Foundation. To read more about AVF click here.

Responsibilities:

• Guide and control the group discussion to ensure that:
• There is effective participation.
• Participants achieve a mutual understanding.
• Their contributions are considered and included in the ideas, solutions or decisions that emerge.
• Participants take shared responsibility for the outcome.
• Mobilize weekly listening group participants using the AVF set criteria
• Identify venues for listening groups to take place
• Implement listening groups during radio shows, once a week for seven weeks
• Document attendance at listening groups i.e. sign attendance lists and take photos of the lists for accounting purposes.
• Ensure listening group participants receive their snacks and transport and sign to that effect
• Capture all the additional data as required by AVF in the data sheet provided for each listening group
• Perform any other related project tasks as guided by the

Selection Criteria:

Essential

• Diploma or Undergraduate degree in a relevant social science discipline (such as sociology, political science, international development, public health, social psychology)
• Understand the desired outcome, and the background and context of the Listening Group discussions
• Extremely high attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and actively, seeking to continuously improve skills and knowledge
• Proven ability to perform tasks for tight deadlines and under pressure
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Bukusu

Desirable

• Experience in designing and planning discussions, and selecting tools that best help the group’s progress towards that outcome
• Experience in conducting follow up to ensure that outcomes, actions and questions are properly recorded and actioned, and appropriately dealt with afterwards
• Experience in survey/questionnaire design