Organization: Centre for Medical Mobilization Board (CMMB Kenya)

Location:Kwale, Kenya

Application Deadline:October 3rd, 2025

ABOUT

CMMB is seeking a qualified and motivated Project Assistant to support the implementation of its Cervical and Breast Cancer Project in Kwale County. The role will be responsible for day-to-day coordination of project interventions, ensuring the delivery of quality NCD services and achievement of project results. Working closely with the Project Officer and Program Manager, the Project Assistant will support program quality assurance, documentation, learning, and stakeholder engagement, while contributing to timely reporting and effective collaboration with county partners. This position offers an exciting opportunity to strengthen cancer prevention, screening, and care services, and to contribute to improved health outcomes for women and communities in Kwale.

Duties and responsibilities

Project Management:

• Participate in planning of project activities and set high quality performance targets, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines.
• Review and track progress of project implementation and utilization of project resources, using participatory processes to overcome implementation obstacles.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation related to project monitoring and implementation, including up-to-date performance data on the indicators being tracked by the project.
• Ensure a working environment of mutual trust, respect and care with other staff, encouraging effective teamwork with staff members and partners.
• Identification, recruitment and retention of beneficiaries

Budget and Financial Management:

• Ensure that project activities comply with CMMB financial guidelines, policies, procedures and regulations.
• In collaboration with the finance teams and supporting the project officer, ensure timely payments of project beneficiaries and provide liquidation reports.
• Participate in the preparation of annual project budgets, quarterly and monthly budgets.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review and track project progress on project implementation.
• Promote innovative/effective methods towards achievement of project objectives.
• Support documentation processes of project success stories, best practices, lessons learnt and other project innovations and learnings.
• Supervise and mentor the Linkage assistants, community champions, CHVs and other community actors towards creating and enabling environment for TB patients.
• Support implementation of community-based project activities to ensure adherence to set quality standards.
• Monitor the performance of linkage assistants, champions, CHVs as well as other community actors and continuously mentor them as needed.
• Work with the Project and M&E Officers to prepare donor project narrative reports, collect monthly and quarterly performance data, as well as other reports needed/required.
• Regularly organize and coordinate meetings with key stakeholders on project progress and challenges.

Partnership:

• Engage stakeholders at all stages of the project cycle for their insights on the appropriateness of project approaches and interventions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Community Health or related field.
• At least two -year experience in community health work within a public health focused Non-Governmental Organization.
• Experience working with health service delivery professionals (e.g. Community Health Workers, health care workers)
• Extensive understanding of Community Health Strategy and working with the various structures under the Community Health Strategy.
• Highly organized, flexible, and adaptable to changing priorities and able to work well under deadlines with minimum supervision
• Excellent computer skills using MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook—You must have demonstrable ability to format documents, prepare charts and manipulate data
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills to include conflict resolution, priority management, and managing expectations of multiple clients
• Experience in the implementation of NCDs programming is an added advantage

How to Apply:

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Project AssistantLocation: Kwale County

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