The community engagement coordinator will be part of the team that helps pastoralists make informed migration decisions with relevant digital information. Project Concern International (PCI) seeks to recruit an individual who is mission-driven, passionate and experienced in community engagement and mobilization, and is excited about the opportunity to work on a social enterprise project that could have huge impact for some of the most marginalized populations in Kenya and across the continent. The social enterprise will be focused on product testing, launch, marketing and sales of the AfriScout mobile application to pastoral communities in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). The successful candidate’s assignment will involve some aspects of sales, marketing, and field-level management including; customer education and adoption, regional stakeholder engagement & management, regional monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance.
Job location:
This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with up to 60% time traveling to assigned pastoral counties within the country where the application is relevant. Some international travel within the region may be required.
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Position type:
Full-Time/Regular Contingent on funding availability
Application process:
Please include the position title and your name in the subject line. In the application, kindly include references as well as your salary expectations Only finalists will be contacted. PCI is an equal opportunity employer.
Project overview:
There are a quarter of a billion pastoralists in Africa using basic, and increasingly unreliable methods to find adequate grazing. AfriScout is an innovative social enterprise using a mobile phone application targeted to pastoral populations that fuses traditional knowledge and practices with the accuracy of satellite imagery to more precisely locate grazing areas. Developed through the support of USAID/DIV, Google, Fintrac and other donors, and after initially piloting with paper maps, PCI developed an Android-powered app that provides digital information to enhance the way pastoralists make migration decisions. AfriScout places real-time vegetation and water resource maps using satellite data directly in the hands of pastoralists. Since its inception, PCI and AfriScout have reached over 1 million pastoralists. PCI aims to expand its reach and build a financially sustainable social enterprise through a fee-for-service model.
Job LocationNairobi, KenyaPosition TypeFull-Time/Regular
PCI’s mission is to empower people to enhance health, end hunger and overcome hardship.
Vision
The most vulnerable people in the world will have the power to lift themselves out of poverty and to create vital, healthy lives for their families and communities now and for the future.
Strong Roots
In 1961, a young doctor from San Diego volunteering at a Tijuana clinic saved the lives of two small children who were dying of pneumonia. This experience led Dr. James Turpin to found PCI and forever change the lives of millions of children and families around the world by providing health and hope to those most in need. Since then, the focus of the organization has remained true to its founder: PCI works in vulnerable communities to improve health and create long-term change by helping people help themselves. For 50 years, thousands of dedicated individuals and groups have worked to make this vision a reality.