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Title: Social Media Trainers
The incumbent will be expected to develop, document and conduct new Social Media courses, establish local, regional and international Social Media partnerships, develop new initiatives and ensure other staff around the world will receive and benefit from the training manuals and knowledge lead on Social Media. Hence, also partake in developing the Global Change framework globally, where the Social Media training is one out of five pillars.
Key responsibilities will include the following;
- Contextualise the Social Media training to a Kenyan / East African context targeting youths from youth groups and organizations.
- Co-train and assist the Global Change Youth Participation in Governance course
- Possibly partake in conducting the Global Change Campaign course
- Contribute to governance and/or campaign sessions and other workshops as part of other courses, workshop and meetings
- Take part in developing the new Global Platform in Nairobi, its trade mark and concepts (activities and initiatives besides from the trainings);
- Recruitment of participants, evaluation, follow-up of the training programme;
- Basic budgeting and accounting for the programme;
- Share and institutionalize Social Media knowledge and developments with the rest of the Platform and the Platforms worldwide;
- Initiate cooperation and partnerships with other technical experts, youth and information organizations both in regards to developing common activities as well as buy-in to the courses;
- Take part in the global knowledge network and be the knowledge source for the other global platforms;
- Co-develop the Social Media hub for the new Global Platform in Nairobi (activities and initiatives besides from the trainings);
- Develop and conduct other initiatives related to Social / New Media and communications and youth participation;
- Partake in conducting needs assessments among youth groups including those at ActionAid’s Local Rights Programmes and partners
Qualifications
- Degree in IT or other relevant education
- At least 2-3 years of relevant working experience
- Documented experience in conducting training and development of participatory training courses
- Documented experience in facilitation and action based leaning with young people
- Understanding of gender issues in development and demonstrable commitment to promoting gender equity within the organisation.
- Experience in working with and promoting Social Justice
- Demonstrated experience with activism, advocacy work, campaigning and lobbyism
- Demonstrated work with youth empowerment and capacity building of youth groups
- Understanding of programming elements of the areas we train in and ability to develop content for courses
To apply, kindly log on to http://197.254.18.4/ehrm/ to submit your application; for any queries kindly direct the same to Hresources.kenya@actionaid.org. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. ActionAid is an equal opportunities employer. Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.
