Scholarship Coordinator
Job Overview:
SHOFCO is looking for a community-oriented, grass-roots
based personnel to ensure that Kenya’s most vulnerable girls get the wraparound
support they need to enrol, attend school and thrive. The role of the
Scholarship Coordinator will be to run and manage SHOFCO’s scholarship program
and support to drive re-enrolment through ‘nudges’ in one of 10 target
counties, serving as “boots on the ground” support to SHOFCO scholarship
recipients. The Scholarship Coordinator will serve as the bridge between SHOFCO,
schools, scholars and families to create strong and authentic relationships to
ensure SHOFCO scholarship recipients are identified and comprehensively
supported. The role will be embedded within SHOFCO’s SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN)
approach to community organising, and ensure scholar identification and support
remains strongly grass-roots based.
Scholarship Officer
Job Overview:
SHOFCO is looking for an experienced grassroots-based
approach practitioner to manage scholarship processes across counties, to
support vulnerable girls to thrive within and beyond school. The role will be
embedded within SHOFCO’s SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN) approach to community
organising, and ensure scholar identification and support remains strongly
grass-roots based.
The ideal candidate should have education, program design,
and facilitation experience in Kenya, including successfully working with urban
and rural low-income communities, and is personally aligned with SHOFCO’s value
of staying “grassroots” and always listening to and empowering the community.