Scholarship Coordinator

Job Overview:

SHOFCO is looking for a community-oriented, grass-roots based personnel to ensure that Kenya’s most vulnerable girls get the wraparound support they need to enrol, attend school and thrive. The role of the Scholarship Coordinator will be to run and manage SHOFCO’s scholarship program and support to drive re-enrolment through ‘nudges’ in one of 10 target counties, serving as “boots on the ground” support to SHOFCO scholarship recipients. The Scholarship Coordinator will serve as the bridge between SHOFCO, schools, scholars and families to create strong and authentic relationships to ensure SHOFCO scholarship recipients are identified and comprehensively supported. The role will be embedded within SHOFCO’s SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN) approach to community organising, and ensure scholar identification and support remains strongly grass-roots based.

Scholarship Officer

Job Overview:

SHOFCO is looking for an experienced grassroots-based approach practitioner to manage scholarship processes across counties, to support vulnerable girls to thrive within and beyond school. The role will be embedded within SHOFCO’s SHOFCO Urban Network (SUN) approach to community organising, and ensure scholar identification and support remains strongly grass-roots based.

The ideal candidate should have education, program design, and facilitation experience in Kenya, including successfully working with urban and rural low-income communities, and is personally aligned with SHOFCO’s value of staying “grassroots” and always listening to and empowering the community.