Scholarship Officer Job Ol Pejeta Conservancy

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

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How To Apply

Interested and qualifying candidates should submit their CV and application letter only to jobs@olpejetaconservancy.org with the JOB TITLE on the email subject line