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Vacancy: Monitoring and Learning Assistant

Want to join our growing team?

Emerging Leaders is a growing charity that works to release the leadership and entrepreneurial potential of young people living in poverty (www.emerging-leaders.net). Our aim is to transform mindsets by running innovative training programmes in Kenya and empower people with financial literacy, entrepreneurship & transferable life leadership skills, helping people start transformational community and business projects.  We specifically work with vulnerable youth as well as local supplier companies in international supply chains. We have worked in 16 countries over the past 10+ years, training over 75,000 people using a Train the Trainer model. 

We are looking to fill a key position, alongside our current team, to help us implement and monitor a new, 4-year project in Kenya focused on Nairobi and Naivasha – reaching youth at scale – 18,000 youth’s lives impacted by 2024. 

Monitoring and Learning Assistant

Are you interested in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning?  Do you love the challenge of tracking impact, capturing learnings, and promoting stories of change?  We take our impact and data seriously!  If you’re excited for transforming the lives of vulnerable youth in Kenya – then, we would like to invite you to apply.

Your Responsibilities

Data Collection & Analysis

• Manage all data collection for this project


• Data collection based on the Project Log-frame and Milestone table


• Data Collection will be done through KoboToolbox, or other necessary software


• Combine all data into analysis templates (hopefully through Power BI dashboards)


• Provide weekly/monthly updates to the project team on progress

Collecting Impact Stories

• Implement a “Most Significant Change” monitoring technique


• Spend a lot of time with vulnerable youth who are part of the programme, understanding their stories and the impact of this project


• Take photos and videos and prepare written versions of their stories


• Spend significant time on the phone, remotely providing support

Data Collection Team Coordination

• In year 2 of the project, you will help support 8 phone supporters (youth who have come through the programme in the first year) to collect data at a much bigger scale

Reporting

• Directly managed by the Project Manager


• Provide weekly progress reports, and monthly updates for the global team


• Work with the M&E Advisor (UK-based) to support using technology locally


• Required to fill in a donor report twice-annually with progress towards all metrics

Communication

• Liaise weekly with UK team during team meeting


• Weekly team meeting in Dandora, Nairobi


• Monthly reporting on project progress (following a reporting template)

Education and Experience Nice‐to‐Haves:

• A bachelors in International Development, Writing, Data Management, or Communications would be great (or something else related)


• Previous experience working in international aid and development is an asset, but this position is designed for entry-level staff, so please apply if you don’t have experience, but your interests and education is about right!


• Experience with data collection or collecting people’s stories of impact is useful, even if only voluntary!

Salary, Hours and Start date:

This role full-time, 37 hours per week. 

Our office is in Dandora, Nairobi, but we are a flexible team that works from home and the office, with weekly local team meetings and a weekly international team meeting. 

Start date for the role is mid to end April 2021

Monthly salary is 60000 KES.

How to Apply:

Please email your CV and a cover letter to our Head of Operations, Janna Rous at recruit@emerging-leaders.net  using the Subject: Apply Monitoring & Learning Assistant.

NOTE:

Closing date for applications: 31st January 2021

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted

IMPORTANT: Because this position is working with vulnerable youth and adults, you will be requested to submit a criminal reference check to be offered this position.  Please see Equal Opportunities Statement below.

Project Summary:

Emerging Leaders’ project in Kenya will work in urban poor areas in Nairobi and Naivasha regions amongst vulnerable, unemployed youth.  The challenges of their daily reality and being caught in inter-generational cycles of poverty, has taught them that “trying” is hopeless.  These youth often “hustle” for minimal amounts of money on a daily basis to survive.  They have been disenfranchised with business-skills training that require too much capital to invest in a start-up – capital they do not have.  They don’t have successful, local role-model entrepreneurs who can inspire or guide them.  Bored and restless, many are drawn to petty crime and alcohol.

In order to break this cycle, we focus first on changing mindsets, unlocking their potential. Then we build on this with financial literacy & entrepreneurship skills. Typically we are seeing upwards of 70-80% of participants start a small income-generating business.  One they identify, plan and deliver and which more than doubles their monthly income.

The project logical framework breaks the goals of this programme into two key objectives:

• Objective 1 is to liberate the entrepreneurial potential of vulnerable youth in Kenya’s urban slums to start their own businesses and generate a sustainable income – using the DIRECT TRAINING APPROACH.


• Objective 2 is to scale impact by empowering local youth entrepreneurs to become Community Trainers, enabling them to help other vulnerable youth to start and grow their own businesses – using the TRAIN-THE-TRAINER APPROACH.

*You can see a copy of the project proposal if you advance beyond an initial interview.

Equal Opportunities Statement:

• Emerging Leaders is an organisation committed to social justice and resolutely opposed to discrimination in society.  We are committed to providing services on a fair and equitable basis, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, life-style, sex, sexuality, physical/mental disability, offending background or any other factor.  No person requiring services from Emerging Leaders will be treated less favourably than any other person on any grounds.


• In employment we actively seek to recruit with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, promoting equality for all, and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates.  We select all candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications, experience and commitment to the values and purposes of the organisation.


• As an organisation using the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure Service to assess applicants’ suitability for positions of trust, Emerging Leaders undertakes to comply fully with the DBS Code of Practice and to treat all applicants for positions fairly.  It undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed.


• A Disclosure is only requested after a thorough risk assessment has indicated that one is both proportionate and relevant to the position concerned.  For those positions where a Disclosure is required, all application forms, job adverts and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that a Disclosure will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position.


• Where a Disclosure is to form part of a recruitment process, we encourage all applicants called for interview to provide details of any criminal record at an early stage in the application process.  We request that this information is sent under separate, confidential cover to the recruiter within the organisation and we guarantee that this information will only be seen by those who need to see it as part of a recruitment process.


• Unless the nature of the position allows Emerging Leaders to ask questions about your entire criminal record, we only ask about “unspent” convictions as defined in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.


• We ensure that all those in the organisation who are involved in the recruitment process have been suitably trained to identify and assess the relevance of circumstances of offences.  We will also ensure that they have received appropriate guidance and training in the relevant legislation relating to the employment of ex-offenders e.g. the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.


• At interview, or in separate discussion, we ensure that an open and measured discussion takes place on the subject of any offences or other matter that might be relevant to the position.  Failure to reveal information that is relevant to the position sought could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment or voluntary work.


• We make every subject of a DBS Disclosure aware of the existence of the Code of Practice and make a copy available on request.


• We undertake to discuss any matter revealed in a disclosure with the person seeking a position before withdrawing a conditional offer of employment.


• Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. It will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of your offences.

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