Care Assistant Jobs Vacancy at Red Cross Society

Care Assistant  Jobs vacancy at Kenya Red Cross Society
Job Title: Home Based Care Assistant

Reporting to: Project Officer

Job location: Daadab

Summary of Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible and accountable for the effective planning, budgeting, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programme aimed at combating and reducing the prevalence and impact of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable communities within the Branch.

Other responsibilities include awareness creation, capacity building, and providing psycho-social support to people affected and afflicted by HIV/AIDS as well as delivering HIV/AIDS workplace training programmes.

Specific duties, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities

• Conduct baseline studies using participatory approaches to identify the number of persons as well as orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) afflicted and affected with HIV/AIDS so as to determine their capacities, available resources and coping mechanisms
• Encourage the youth to attend voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) to decrease risk behaviours by emphasizing consent, confidentiality and counselling aimed at decreasing stigma as more people know their HIV status
• Develop and implement social support programmes to assist caregivers to provide counselling, home-based care and psychosocial support to persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) including orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) afflicted and affected with HIV/AIDS to participate in productive activities
• Participate in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of capacity building programmes aimed at equipping and strengthening staff, volunteers and communities with capacity to provide HIV/AIDS care and support
• Strengthen collaborative partnerships and networks with stakeholders, donors, government agencies, the private sector and other players to ensure implementation of programmes that enhance organizational effectiveness
• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams to develop, implement and evaluate HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities using participatory community methods to improve performance standards and organisational effectiveness
• Develop and implement lobby and advocacy programmes with a view to reform laws and policies that hamper the implementation of programmes
• Prepare periodic progress reports and annual reports showing achievements against planned targets as well as providing justification for performance variances and areas of improvement

Minimum Qualifications

Diploma in Community Development or equivalent qualifications such as epidemiology, nursing & social work
Three (3) years experience in planning, implementing and evaluating HIV/AIDS prevention and control programmes

Competencies

• Knowledge of HIV/AIDS health care, humanitarian relief issues, trends and goals aimed at preventing and alleviating human suffering
• Strong communication and presentation skills in both English and Kiswahili, including ability to develop reports and prepare relevant publications
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build collaborative relationships with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic and political issues
• Demonstrated proficiency in computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, data-base, email and utilization of the internet
• KRCS has been appointed a Sub Recipient (SR) for Global Fund (GF) Round 10 Malaria Grant.
• Arising from this, the Society is looking for qualified persons to fill the following positions:

How to Apply:
Applications must contain: A letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of academic certificates, address and contacts of two referees.

All applications should be sent to:

The Secretary General
Kenya Red Cross Society
P. O. Box 40712-00100,
Nairobi

Deadline: 12th Oct 2012