Mothers2Mothers (m2m) Curriculum Development Consultant Job in Kenya

mothers2mothers (m2m) is an international non-governmental organisation headquartered in Cape Town, SA, dedicated to providing education and support to pregnant women and mothers living with HIV, and preventing mother-to-child transmission.

m2m empowers HIV-positive pregnant women and new mothers to become role models in their communities by promoting AIDS awareness, testing and services. m2m currently operates in 8 countries in Africa and receives funding from a diverse set of funders.

For further information please visit www.m2m.org.

Curriculum Development Consultant

Purpose: To develop the national Kenya Mentor Mother Program (KMMP) curriculum package aligned to national standards and guidelines. This is a fixed term consultancy position.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Lead the analysis, design and development of a competency-based curriculum package for training Mentor Mothers to deliver services in line with relevant national guidelines
• Develop and manage project,Work plan detailing key milestones and deliverables
• Design curriculum package blueprint including proposed learning objectives and outline of curriculum package including training of trainer’s materials, trainer materials, participant materials, presentation materials and training evaluation tools
• Facilitate a stakeholder’s forum to reach consensus on curriculum package blueprint
• Develop curriculum content against finalized curriculum blueprint
• Lead review of draft curriculum package with key stakeholders and finalize package based on feedback

Expected Deliverables:

• Project work plan with key milestones and deliverables
• Curriculum package blueprint
• Stakeholders’ forum summary report
• Draft curriculum package
• Final curriculum package

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Minimum of a Masters degree in public health, instructional systems design, health education and/or a related field
• Demonstrated experience developing national curriculum, preferably in the Kenyan health sector

Competencies Required:

• Strong knowledge of instructional systems design and adult learning theory
• Experience with HIV and/or MNCH, peer education and behaviour change models in the African context
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, while ensuring that project deliverables are on track according to the organization’s identified needs
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with skills in desktop publishing, graphics software, GIS or other relevant software programmes an advantage
• Dynamism, creativity and flexibility
• Enthusiasm to work on behalf of m2m’s mother and infant clients

To Apply:

Interested applicants should submit their Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to the mothers2mothers Human resource Department via email to kmmprecruitment@m2m.org by 6 January 2012.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted. 

If you do not hear from us by 31 January 2012, please consider your application unsuccessful.