NAVNET

The organization I am working with in Kenya has been founded some years ago by returned VSO volunteers from Kenya. The idea behind NAVNET is to enable Kenyans to volunteer in Kenya. Sounds simple – but it’s not :)
In fact, we are acting somehow like an agency (selecting and training volunteers as well as volunteer taking organisations, matching both sides, monitoring & evaluating the entire process). Well, neither volunteers nor organmisations are able to pay for this process – therefor donors and potential funding partners have to be found.
My job for the next six months is mainly to support NAVNET sharpening its profile, elaborate the USP of NAVNET and package everything into a communication strategy to attract potential donors. Furthermore I’ll be working on the credibility of NAVNET, especially in the area of financial processes (introducing financial management, CoA, etc.) in order to have a transparent balance sheet and a sound basis for a financial controlling.

So basically I will work in all fields of the organization – with all three staff members. About the working style and methods I will probably write later on – for now it’s only a snapshot and don’t want to generalize too much; just that it is different :)



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