Joan Wamaitha

Experience

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  Unbound Kenya (Christian Foundation for Children and Aging)

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2012

  Social Work Assistant

  • Recruited and assessed new children beneficiaries for enrollment to the program.• Carried out follow up through home field visits to assess beneficiaries stay.• Conducted Case management and formulated Best interest Assessment plans for the beneficiaries.• Facilitated women empowerment programs and savings groups and monitored savings progress.• Provided mentorship, psychosocial support and youth guidance and counseling.• Supervised beneficiaries’ letters for submission to donors and ensured they were in order for submission. Show less

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  Kenya society for Deaf Children

  Oct 2013 - Feb 2014

  Bursary Assistant

  Drafting Bursary appeal letters to donors ,filed visit to deaf schools Rapporteur during workshops Advocacy and Lobbying for deaf rights General office duties

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  Voluntary Service Oversees/International Citizenship Service

  Sept 2014 - Dec 2014

  Secure livelihoods project intern/volunteer

  • Created awareness on Environmental conservation and importance of tree planting to community members. • Participated in planning, organizing and implementing of the tree per child project where 4,000 tree seedlings were distributed to schools and planted.• Continuously participated in key events planning and management such as the World Aids day and the International volunteer’s day.• Planned and facilitated training sessions during community action days on various developing world issues such as general HIV awareness, racism amongst others.• Successfully worked and lived with a multicultural team from United Kingdom and other Europe countries.• Initiated the grow your English club that targeted improving English expression in writing and reading as well presentation skills for the children in the community during weekends and holidays.• Conducted FGM research and was in charge of events budget creation and management. • Participated in weekly work plan development and weekly report writing of activities done. Show less

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  ActionAid Kenya

  Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  Associate Trainer
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  St John's Community Centre

  Sept 2015 - Jun 2019

  Casemanager- DREAMS Project Global Communities/USAID

  Worked with the DREAMS project which aimed at empowering Adolescent girls and young women in the HIV burden areas who are most vulnerable between 10-24 years and at risk of HIV and GBV to become Determined Resilient Empowered Aids free Mentored and Safe to realise their full potential..Mobilizing and enrolling adolescent girls and young women at risk from Pumwani Ward through existing service providers.Assessing their general situation and that of their family and their HIV and GBV risk factors.Training the girls on GBV and Transformation as well as My Health My Choice Evidence Based Intervention.Making appropriate treatment plans that are time bound in consultation to the client.Mentoring the clients to adopt values and practices that reduce their risks.Liaising with service providers and referring cases appropriately to access needed services and ensure that access to the services is improved or supported.Supporting the program in identifying relevant service providers that would provide health, education, spiritual, and social support services to the clients.updating information of each case using a software system.Conducting case follow-up to monitor progress of the case while providing feedback to the client on progress made.Writing client reports and replying letters or any other inquiries regarding the client.Providing interim supportive counseling to clients and referring complex cases .Participating in training and team meetings.Data collection using the girl roaster tool, ona collect,ODK collect and Podio Show less

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  Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

  Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  National Youth Research Evaluation Consultant-Kenya

  The primary objective of the evaluation was to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the ACT!2030 initiative with special consideration for the relevant gender and human rights issues. The review covered all twelve countries in which ACT!2030 has been implemented, with particular emphasis on two country case studies that allowed deeper understanding of the project’s impacts. The review was forward-looking and utilisation focussed, with emphasis on four key areas: • Achievements of the ACT!2030 project during Phases 1 – 4 and identification of how these results were achieved; • Implementation challenges; • Lessons learnedThe review was mandated to the Swiss Centre for International Health at the Swiss TPH https://www.swisstph.ch/en/ under the direction of Dr. Adriane Martin Hilber as the team leader of this review, Leah Bohle as the Project Manager at STPH and Frances squires as a senior research consultant. There was support by a small technical team at Swiss TPH. Roles and Responsibilities- Participated in skype meetings with the Swiss TPH team in Basel for coordination, planning and discussion of data collection and reporting activities. - Conducted a literature review and stakeholder mapping of ACT!2030 partners in country- Participated in the selection of key stakeholders to interview- Data collection, review and analysis- Using evaluation questionnaire provided, conducted interviews and provided the findings in a written format on a data collection matrix or grid. - Summarised the findings onto 3 one page summary sheets for review.- Finalised country desk study notes in collaboration with the Swiss based researcher coordinator. - Will Participate in a validation Facebook roundtable on the final evaluation results with other country level youth stakeholders. Show less

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  Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp

  Jul 2019 - Jun 2024

  • Provides general protection case management services to over 200 persons of concern in compliance with best-practice and international standards including assessment of need, development of case plan and referral/facilitation of access to services, follow-up, and case closure. • Supports in the implementation of Psychosocial and GBV activities, including organizing and facilitating community-based GBV prevention activities.• Collaborates with other DRC sectors and NGOs to ensure a coordinated and collaborative response to the provision of services and assistance for those persons of concern benefiting from case management.• Ensures protection principles are mainstreamed throughout the project activities.• Coordinates closely with the protection and livelihoods team interventions to ensure that they are being implemented in synergy• Engages with communities directly and creates awareness on DRC’s work, human rights, SGBV, and other protection-related topics• Support in data analysis of protection data in a safe and ethical manner.• Ensures timely reporting of project activities, including ensuring all activities are accurately documented on protection database.• Conducted a rapid assessment to identify protection and livelihoods needs for 246 refugees in the urban set up and recommended actions for the same. • Contributes to the design of clear weekly and monthly plans for the implementation of all protection activities Show less

  • Protection Officer

    Jan 2021 - Jun 2024

  • Protection Assistant

    Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
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  Mixed Migration Centre (MMC)

  Jul 2024 - now

  Regional Project Management Officer-East and Southern Africa|Yemen and Egypt