James Karongo Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

• Create and implement activity work-plans for country-level activities, in collaboration with Project Lead.• Provide day-to-day management for Youth Excel activities with a focus on supporting local organizations who are co-leading or leading these activities at the local level.• Coach and mentor local partners and sub-grantees in Youth Excel approaches. • Assist in conducting due diligence and background checks for local partners and sub-grantees and developing risk mitigation strategies.• Support and monitor Youth Excel sub-grantees’ work, including identifying resources and support that sub-grantees need to strengthen their capacity.• Provide day-to-day monitoring and constructive advice/support to sub-grantees that is in line with sub-grants including compliance with U.S. government and IREX policies and financial management.• Oversee and track sub-grantees’ funding disbursements and liquidations. Ensure timely and accurate sub-grantee financial reporting and provide capacity-building support to sub-grantees in these areas.• Collect and review sub-grant documentation and maintain organized and up-to-date files in preparation for close-out and audit readiness.• Work with the Project Lead to build Youth Excel enhancing partnerships in Kenya and the region• Contribute to Youth Excel monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.• Contribute to Youth Excel project communications such as collecting and sharing impact stories from sub-grantees.• Responding to region specific queries on Youth Excel and/or directing them to the relevant persons

Rehani House, Nairobi Region Office

•Maintain and develop high level skills in the use of the one2oneTM integrated digital platforms specifically internet-based components; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SMS, WhatsApp, one2oneTM website and related media.•Accelerate engagement on all the digital platforms•Develop work plans, implement, monitor and report as assigned while adhering to defined program strategies•Ensure inter-divisional/departmental linkages between the adolescent and youth program and other divisions in the assigned regions•Develop and implement innovative strategies for demand creation and continuous improvement of adolescent and youth friendly HIV/SRH services in view of achieving 90:90:90 targets.•Disseminate IEC materials for different Adolescents and youth sub-populations, parents, teachers, service providers and other populations in touch with adolescents and youth.•Support AGYW PrEP Champions, AGYW organization and YACs in their activities including thoroughly preparing them for high-level advocacy fora•Ensure timely completion of quality activity, Program and donor reports as assigned.•Support the capacity building, training, mentorship and supervision of service providers, teachers, youth outreach mobilizers, peer educators, interns and LVCT’s sub partners targeting adolescents and youth to ensure that they are well placed to deliver quality AYFS services.•Ensure meaningful engagement of adolescent and young people in the program and policy process that concern them in the assigned regions•Document and disseminate LVCT’s adolescent and youth work – including abstracts and reports•Collect program related material e.g. human interest stories, photos, for updating website, newsletters, annual reports and other documents•Management of program resources including commodities, human resource and finance to ensure accountability

Sokoni Dreams Prevention Centre

Nairobi

OVERALL PURPOSE: To provide technical expertise, coordination and support supervision to site staff and volunteers within designated sites MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES• Providing support in the program through co-ordination and supervision of Peer Education and Outreach Program in Nairobi County.• Work with the PEO team to reach 3,212 KP with the minimum package.• Work with the PEO team to reach 3,212 KP with quarterly repeat services while ensuring 100% cohort retention• Motivate and retain 80% of peer educators while maintaining NASCOP approved peer ratios• Providing support to ensure all project sites conform to NASCOP SOPs for KP• Ensure quality Improvement through support and supervision of peer educators. This should be documented for quality tracking• Work with program staff to document and disseminate best practices and lessons learnt• Provide technical support in planning , implementing, monitoring and evaluating program activities including writing weekly and monthly reports • Ensure the project utilize approved reporting tools.• Facilitating capacity building activities for the program implementation team including organizing and supporting economic empowerment/livelihood sources • Raising the level of awareness on social realities and empowering project beneficiaries in coming up with their own strategies and schemes to improve their living condition. E.g Table banking groups• Participate and represent the project at relevant program meetings.• Timely submission of program reports including timely liquidation of program funds

Nairobi

• Providing support in the program through co-ordination and supervision of program activities.• Mobilize and sensitize target beneficiaries on the project within the project target area• Provide technical support in planning , implementing, monitoring and evaluating program activities including writing technical reports for donors• Managing activity budgets including processing relevant financial transactions• Developing and promoting partnerships and networking with relevant stakeholders including and not limited to local authorities, relevant government of Kenya ministries and NGOs• Support in the Coordinating of sensitization workshops and advocacy sessions for community leaders, committee leaders and other stakeholders.• Monitor and report on relevant project activities and impact • Participate in development of training materials and design training schedules for different activities • Conduct hot spot mapping and size estimation of Adolescents Girls and young Women in the project site.• Lead the development/adoption of relevant SBC materials to support field activities• Provide regular follow-up and supervisory support to ensure quality of program in priority communities• Work with program staff to document and disseminate best practices and lessons learnt• Participate and represent the project at relevant program meetings.• Conduct regular documentation of processes, challenges and lessons learned• Participate in NOPE technical program development and review meetings.• Any other duties given by supervisor

Nairobi

• Involved in work plan development and general planning and implementation of the Program• Coordination of Program activities in the Project Sites • Organize and implement strategic behavior change communication activities • Organized and facilitate Peer Education Trainings including ToT training • Conducting monitoring of implemented activities • Writing monthly progress reports including targets reached• Provide support supervision and technical support to 30 Trainer of Trainers in Peer Education to ensure compliance with USAID rules and regulations in activity implementation• Champion youth participation and involvement in project activities • Represent the organization in various fora and project meetings to support program implementation • Represent young people in technical working groups of their interests • Consultant for peer education training for partner organization and corporates

I provided overall program coordination to the TUPANGE Family Planning Project in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu• Conducted and organized demand creation activities for Family Planning services• Coordinated the Youth Peer Education Network activities at the National level• Liaised and supported youth serving organizations to implement health activities• Created a social media platform for the organization to receive feedback from program beneficiaries.• Created an opportunity for young people to share through e-mail• Monitored the activities of the affiliates on the ground and offered them technical support• Represented the young people in technical working groups of their interests• Prepared monthly reports for onward submission to the donors• Participated in the project Health Days and other government events on Health.

Nairobi

Mobilized during the Peace Caravan in Rift Valley and North Eastern Provinces of Kenya

I coordinated Outreach activities in the MTV Staying Alive Foundation Project.

Bachelor Of Arts In Gender And Development Studies (First Class Honors)

Diploma, Community Development And Social Work

Activities and Societies: Volleyball Team Diploma in Community Development and Social Work

Kcse Certificate, High School Certificate

Activities and Societies: Chairperson of the Counselling Club and Played Volleyball.