Helping Women Graduate from Extreme Poverty The BOMA Project is a U.S. nonprofit and Kenyan NGO with a proven track record, measurable results and a transformative approach to alleviating poverty and building resiliency in the drylands of Africa. Our Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP) replaces aid with sustainable income and helps women to graduate from extreme poverty by giving them the tools they need to start small businesses in their communities. With this new and diversified source of income, they can feed their families, pay for school fees and medical care, accumulate savings for long-term stability, survive drought and adapt to a changing climate.
Reporting To: BOMA Regional Manager – Samburu
Location:
- Morijo – Angatananyike Ward
- Nakupurat – Nachola Ward
- Loporos – Maralal Ward
County: Samburu
Introduction:
The BOMA Project is a fast-growing non-profit in US and a Kenyan NGO that is implementing a high-impact income and savings program for ultra-poor women in the drylands of Africa. We do this through the Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP), an innovative two-year poverty graduation program for women living in extreme poverty in Northern Kenya.
BOMA helps pastoral women to start small businesses in their communities so they can earn a sustainable income, pay for food and medical care, send their children to school, survive drought and accumulate savings for long-term family stability.
Project Summary: With funding from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), BOMA Project is seeking to recruit qualified candidates for the Mentors position under Development Food Security Activity (DFSA), entitled NAWIRI (“flourishing”).
BOMA will work closely with consortium partners, county governments, and communities under the leadership of Mercy Corps, to implement this program which has as its overarching goal to sustainably reduce levels of persistent acute malnutrition in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands.
The program is strongly based in the counties, with active engagement across communities, the private sector, and civil society, that seeks to address gender inequalities and social dynamics as key drivers of food insecurity and malnutrition.
Within the program, The BOMA Project will adapt and implement its graduation programming to contribute to NAWIRI’s nutrition goals while building productive and diverse livelihoods in the target communities. BOMA staff will deliver graduation programming directly in Samburu County, while providing technical assistance to Mercy Corps to implement in Turkana County.
Job Summary:
- Manage the Rural Entrepreneur Access Project (REAP), BOMA’s program that helps low-income women start businesses to uplift their living standards.
- Provide mentoring to the agreed number of small business enterprises.
- In a collaborative process with the community (Participatory Wealth Ranking) and BOMA Location Committees, target and identify eligible women for the program, based on BOMA’s criteria.
- Meet with established business groups, help them make decisions about their business and offer other guidance as needed.
- Conduct/deliver business and savings skills trainings and mentor (provide guidance and support) to the businesses in the designated location and surrounding manyattas.
- Survey individuals and collect data on living standards, participation in savings groups, and other relevant information.
- Represent BOMA in the designated location, including as a representative for the organization in local development committees.
- Report on the businesses and savings groups’ performances to the Field Officer.
- Perform a minimum of agreed visits per week to the business groups and savings groups for which you are responsible and upload all data collected at a minimum rate of once a month.
Qualifications:
- At least a Diploma in Nutrition, community Health, social work, or another related discipline.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills; candidates should be able to relate well to both the women with whom we work, and the BOMA Field Officer.
- At least two years’ experience in similar work; with proven experience in data collection
- Be self-driven, and able to work with minimal staff supervision
- Must be a native of the respective ward you are applying for with working knowledge of English, Swahili, and the local language.
- Have a valid motorcycle license and has experience on how to ride a motorcycle.
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