Technical Field Facilitator – CoLMEAL and Action Grants (2 Positions) at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Key Responsibilities

• Community Engagement and CoLMEAL Implementation
• Help train youth, girls, women, and local leaders on CoLMEAL tools and simple ways to collect and use data.
• Assist in setting up and supporting CoLMEAL Groups in villages and helping them stay active.
• Mobilize community members for meetings, trainings, or special events when needed.
• Act as the main contact between the community and ADRA Kenya to share information and feedback.
• Action Grants Administration and Oversight
• Help community groups (especially youth and women groups) create gender-aware proposals that solve local problems.
• Assist the CoLMEAL Officer during trainings on grant writing, budgets, and basic risk management.
• Visit grantee groups regularly to check progress and help solve small problems.
• Make sure community groups keep simple records like signed attendance lists, photos, and legal receipts.
• Support monitoring of how the small grants are spent and report anything that needs support or correction.
• Participatory Monitoring, Learning, and Knowledge Management
• Support CoLMEAL groups to collect and record gender-disaggregated data and other useful information.
• Use basic CoLMEAL and MEARL tools to track what’s working and what needs change in activities.
• Help plan or participate in small community learning or feedback forums.
• Share useful information with the CoLMEAL Officer and help write short community updates when needed.
• Participatory Monitoring, Learning, and Knowledge Management
• Support the communications or advocacy officer to document short stories, quotes, or events from the community.
• Help organize community forums and feedback sessions, like scorecard meetings orbarazas.
• Build and maintain good relationships with ward-level government offices, CBOs, and youth/women leaders.
• Keep regular contact with the ADRA team to make sure the community activities stay on track and challenges are reported early.

Desired Competencies and Minimum Qualifications

• Education Diploma in Social Sciences, Diploma in Community Development or Social Work or related discipline
• Experience At least 1 year of experience in community development, participatory monitoring and evaluation, grants administration, or grassroots advocacy.
• Experience working with community groups
• Working in Kakuma will be an added advantage