Role Summary
The incumbent will Work within the CDP education team to facilitate the scholarship students' journey from: Selection, fee payment, mentorship and welfare. Facilitate donor relations and reporting through pictures, written reports videos, updating Salesforce and any other records.
Responsibilities:
In charge of routine management of scholarship students' needs- welfare and ensuring they ALL remain in school and are getting the education/support they need.
Organize all scholarship students and parents events sand meetings in the community and in the conservancy such as scholarship/mentorship days
Update and design the scholarship selection form to make it current as per prevailing selection criteria.
Using the Salesforce database to keep an accurate and proper record of student fee payment, school performance, personal data, community information and donor records.
Submit, accurate, timely and detailed monthly reports to supervisor and have at hand different data sets and statistics on scholarship students based on gender, community, performance etc. for reporting purposes.
Taking, editing and uploading videos/photos during special events and during cultural exchange activities for the PA-MOJA website and providing them to PR/Marketing department. Update PAMOJA social media channels-Facebook/Instagram/YouTube and any other.
Organize scholarship selection meetings and ensure the gender balance in scholarship selections; equity, the inclusion of minority and/or disadvantaged groups in the selection
Ensure the bursary beneficiaries are selected in a fair and transparent manner through the community leaders and members
Coordinate and organize the scholarship alumnae program: getting data on graduated students and connecting them to Ol Pejeta projects, opportunities and including them in mentorship activities
Develop an annual scholarship calendar with events, projected fees per year, payment and data collection dates.
Qualifications and Skills:
Qualification.
Degree in, Education or related field
Experience.
Minimum 5 years relevant job experience
Computer Literacy
Skills
Detail oriented with excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Ability to thrive in a high paced, fast turnaround business
Be positive, motivated, ambitious, and proactive, with a "can-do" attitude.
Adaptable – ability to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities accordingly
Great interpersonal, communication and collaboration s