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.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Build
and Manage Strong Relationships with Scholar Support Ecosystem
- Liaise with SUN
Committees to work with public school leadership (principals and Bursars)
to support successful and efficient onboarding, and continuous scholarship
recipient support
- Liaise with the
SUN and Gender department to identify students who meet the eligibility
criteria for support
- Collaborate
with Scholarship Officer, SUN facilitators and Gender to deliver
mentorship and school holiday programming, including leading on logistics
planning
- Liaise with
families and build their capacity to support scholar’s learning and
well-being, ensuring they understand their role in the scholar’s
mentorship
- Build strong
relationships with local organizations and government institutions
supporting vulnerable girls, including teen moms, to create and advance
partnerships for recruitment and support of scholars
Spearhead
Case Management and Scholar Welfare/wellbeing
- Implement
scholar welfare/well being and serve as mentor to scholarship recipients
as necessary
- Continuously
engage the parents/guardians and beneficiaries to ensure the students are
enrolled in school, and are informed on any matters arising; Escalate any
issues to the Scholarship Officer for action
- Identify and
flag students at risk of dropping out or those in need of psychosocial
support.
- Meet with new
scholarship students and their families; to onboard them to scholarship
programs and policies and ensure they are ready to report to school
- Partner with
SUN committees on all of the above, working towards community
ownership/accountability
- Escalate needed
cases to Gender
Data
Management & Support Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
- Manage
recruitment pipeline from various sources, collecting streamlined data in
an organized manner
- Conduct data
audit and maintain up-to-date scholar data.
- Ensure scholars
submit necessary documents in a timely manner for continued support
- Support with
all necessary data collection through home and school visits
- Plan home
visits for scholars
- Maintain
up-to-date Scholarship Database
Support
Innovation
- Contribute to
the department’s ways of work and process evaluations to improve
approaches to delivering the interventions.
- Provide
insights as they arise to improve programmatic impact and efficiency
Required
Skills:
- Psycho-social
counselling
- Data
manipulation, analysis and management
- Communication
- Partnership
development
- Networking
Qualifications:
- At least 2
years of experience working in educational programs or community-based
organizations supporting youth.
- Minimum
Diploma-level education. A Bachelor’s degree is an advantage
- Certification
in counselling
- Strong
interpersonal skills with ability to build personal relationships with
students, staff, local community leaders and members, school and
government officials
- High sense of
professionalism in performing duties.
- Dedicated,
proactive, and results-driven.
- Detail oriented
and well-organized
- Propensity to
thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
SHOFCO
Offers:
- A dynamic and
supportive working environment with a diverse team committed to inclusive
development.
- Opportunities
for professional growth and development.
- Competitive
compensation package commensurate with experience and qualifications.
- SHOFCO is an
equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from
people of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating a diverse and
inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
How to
Apply
We are an equal opportunity
employer and value diversity in our organization, all interested applicants
should send their applications together with a detailed Cover letter and CV
to recruitment@shininghopeforcommunities.org with a clear
subject line Scholarship Coordinator –(Location) e.g., Scholarship Coordinator
– Mombasa if you are applying for the Mombasa region. Female candidates are
highly encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Applications should reach us no later than 9th July 2025
