Shamiri Institute is seeking energetic and self-motivated team players to join us as Shamiri Pre-Texts Facilitators working in Nairobi/Kiambu County.
Shamiri Pre-Texts Facilitators are recent high-school graduates trained to deliver Pre-Texts, an innovative art-literacy intervention without prior formal training. This unique approach uses text – an extract from a novel, a physics lesson, or a technical manual – as a source of inspiration for making art. This is followed by group reflection on the process of interpretation through art-making. We are seeking self-motivated individuals to join this class of Pre-Texts Facilitators.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Delivering intervention activities by facilitating group sessions.
- Observing punctuality on all matters that concern Shamiri.
- Attending supervision meetings as communicated.
- Recording group sessions attendance.
- Reporting to the supervisors any information necessary promptly.
- Acting, with supervision, to help ensure participant confidentiality, health, and safety.
Requirements
- A minimum of KCSE Grade C.
- Aged between 18-22 years.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognize and reflect on one’s own values, attitudes, beliefs, biases, emotions, and past experiences.
- Demonstrate interest in helping others and ensuring their confidentiality, fair treatment, safety, and wellbeing.
- Demonstrate commitment to the broad scope of values, ethics, and goals at the height of the Shamiri mission.
- Possess strong communication skills and attention to detail.
- Possess time management, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Additional info
- The contract will run for two months starting on 24th June.
- All Pre-Texts Facilitators will be paid KES 1,500 per group session they deliver (KES 1,000 per session and KES 500 for transport facilitation). The expectation is that Pre-Texts Facilitators will deliver 4 sessions during their contract.
- Pre-Texts Facilitators will also be compensated KES 1,000 per training session they attend with it being mandatory to attend three training sessions.
About Shamiri Institute
We are a youth-led organization shaping the future of mental health by making it affordable for all, personalized to an individual’s needs and circumstances, and integrated within existing caregiving systems and community life. This will help to build a future where young people can thrive across the African continent. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Shamiri was founded in 2018 at Harvard University by award-winning Kenyan entrepreneur and community – mobilizer Tom Osborn and rising global mental health researcher Katherine Venturo-Conerly. Since our founding in 2018, we have worked with over 40,000 youths in secondary schools across Kenya. Through our work, young people have experienced a 40% improvement in mental health and wellbeing, a 14% improvement in social relations, and a 3% improvement in academic grades. Watch this TED talk for more information about our work.
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