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Job Title:        Program Graduate Trainee

• Implement programme activities as laid
  down in the annual plans.
• Carry out periodic monitoring visits and
  produce reports on field programme activity implementation at the LRP.
• Identify Local rights community priorities
  through PRRPs; Community meetings; child focused days and utilize in
  planning for annual programmes.
• Identify community and district level
  advocacy issues to inform national and international policy influencing.
• Consolidate community priorities and draw
  strategic and implementation plans during planning and budgeting periods.
• Identify alternative models, documentation
  of lessons learnt from the existing models and popularize best practices.
• Deliberately drum up CSO support towards
  advocacy and influencing issues affecting communities within the LRP.
• Produce activity reports, monthly,
  quarterly, half, year plans and share with wider Action Aid family.

• Together with the partnership officer,
  support in the identification of partner capacity gaps and the development
  of partner growth and development plans.
• Conduct Support visits to partners and
  reviews their reports, in line with their plans, budgets and funding
  guidelines
• Participate in the implementation,
  monitoring and evaluation of partner capacity development planthrough
  partner visits; Partner appraisals; organizational Self-Assessments.
• Identify partner funding gaps in line with
  the partnership funding guidelines; respond to call for proposals by
  submitting concept notes.
• Support partners Institutional development
  processes e.g. support to hold AGMs, register with sub-county and district
  authorities and ensure functioning of governance structures.

• Identify funding gaps within the
  LRP/Partner areas of focus, generate concepts and proposals in line with
  LRP strategy and 5th Strategy
• Present/submit concept papers for funding
  and keep track of the status
• Review partner proposals and align them to
  community needs and priorities (during planning and budgeting, review
  proposals) in line with LRP strategy and 5th strategy
• Ensure proper contract management in
  respect to the signed MoUs and adherence to financial policies and
  procedures
• Carry out periodic Project monitoring
  visits and produce reports in line with the donors requirements

• Coordinate sponsorship planning meetings
  and organize the Pre-message collection.
• Organize community sensitization meetings
  for CIs and partners, PRRPs with parents and children-child days.
• Build the capacity and supervise community
  workers for quality, timely and sponsor communications child messages and
  community reports.
• Follow up on missing cases and respond to
  queries from the sponsorship unit.
• Collect new profiles for submission to the
  funding affiliates.
• Prepare facilitation for Community
  Intermediaries to enable successful collection of child messages
• Sensitize communities on AAU sponsorship
  mechanism
• Carry out photo updates.
• Produce periodical sponsorship reports
  (Community Newsletters and Progress reports) to supporterscollection of
  relevant case studies and photos from the communities
• Develop a supporter communication plan and
  share with sponsorship unit.
• Map out areas for AAU’s poverty priority
  interventions.

• Participate in the district and sub-county
  planning processes.
• Participate and represent the Local rights
  office in all stakeholder meetings.
• Undertake poverty analysis and service
  delivery reviews to inform the district planning.
• Share plans and budgets, reports with
  relevant stakholders
• Ensure that partners disburse the
  resources they receive from AAU publically.

• The Program Graduate Trainee must hold a
  University Degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, or equivalent
  from a recognized institution; a post graduate qualification in M&E or
  any field will be an added advantage
• One to two years of relevant working
  experience from a recognized institution, preferably an NGO
• Personal Competencies: Planning
  and Budgeting skills; Capacity building skills; Good Communication and
  Interpersonal
• Skills; Community mobilization
  and facilitation skills; Team player; Confidence, openness and willingness
  to learn; Self-driven; Ability to work in community setting

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