Program Coordinator at Active Voices

Duration: 1 year (Renewal subject to availability of funds)

Job Summary/Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Program Coordinator performs functions related to planning, design, proposal development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of activities for projects managed. The candidate will match program activities with the logistics and financial requirements to create an enabling environment necessary for carrying out all project activities including meetings, trainings, research, supportive supervision and stakeholders’ engagement.

The program coordinator is responsible for managing two ongoing projects:

The “Targeting the Current and Next Generation of Parents to End Female Genital Mutilation” project which seeks to inform and involve existing youth networks in the movement to end FGM; and enhance the capacity of health care providers on social change communication to become advocates and promote the abandonment of FGM; and

The “CLADE Project {Community Level Advocacy to End Child Marriage}” which seeks to contribute to the reduction of the practice of child marriage through advocacy, engagement with religious leaders, community sensitization and youth engagement to generate discussions and stimulate efforts towards ending the practice and by promoting girls’ education as a way of delaying the age of marriage.