Action Africa Help International (AAH-I) is a regional African-led non-governmental organisation that supports livelihood-challenged communities in East and Southern Africa to sustainably improve their well-being and standard of living. With Country Programmes in South Sudan, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia and recently in Djibouti, AAH-I has over 25 years’ experience working with communities in conflict and post-conflict situations, including refugees, internally displaced people and host communities. More recently AAH-I has expanded its activities to work with other marginalised communities, including pastoralists and people living in informal urban settlements.
AAH-I Kenya Programme is looking Savings & Credit Officer who will be based in Kakuma.
Purpose of the role: To support the economic empowerment among persons of concern (PoCs) in refugee camps and Host communities of Turkana West, aimed at increasing their income for self-reliance, through training, value chain development, linkage and access to markets with a special emphasis on development of a sustainable savings and credit system.
Duties and responsibilities
Project Planning and design
Value chain development
Project implementation and training
Project Monitoring& Evaluation
Expected Outcomes
Target PoCs among refugees and Host community of Turkana west are organized into groups and undertaken through various economic strengthening trainings.
PoCs exhibit self-reliance witnessed through increased income at Household level as a results various training customized to meet their needs, savings, access to business capital, and livelihoods diversification.
PoC data base maintained and serve as a hub of relevant data that can be shared by required stakeholders.
Five business associations formed and linked into a savings and credit society model for the purposes of sustainability.
Business community meetings held on monthly basis informs provides lessons learnt and this is incorporated address livelihoods barriers among targets groups.
Five business associations are formed and organized into one savings and credit scheme.
Training manuals are developed and shared across the consortium partnership for approval and mainstreaming into market based approach to economic strengthening and livelihoods resilience.
The full job description is available here.
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested candidates should email application letters and CVs (with 3 referees) addressed to recruitke@actionafricahelp.org to be received by 31st July, 2017. The email Subject Line must show the job title of the position applied for. AAH-I is an equal-opportunity employer. We thank candidates for their high interest in the opportunities we publish on our website. Due to the high number of applications we receive, we will only get back to shortlisted candidates. Shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis.