Community Mobilizer 12 views0 applications

ISLAMIC RELIEF SOMALIA

Job title: Community Mobilizer (7 positions)

Department: Program

Location: Balcad (6 positions) & Xawaadley (1 position)

Closing date: 18/01/2025

Contract duration: 6 months

Report to: Project Assistant/ Officer

Line Management Responsibility: None

JOB SUMMARY

The Community Mobilizer is primarily responsible for community mobilization and support for community governance activities within a RELIEF (food security and livelihood) project, specifically linked to disaster response.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

• Conduct relief project awareness through meetings with target communities, including elders, community leaders, and target beneficiaries.
• Sensitize the beneficiaries with their entitlement and duration for the cycle in which they will receive assistance.
• Assist selection committee members to recall selection criteria and identify project beneficiaries in the targeted communities.
• Assist and work with the MEAL team during the beneficiary verification to facilitate follow-up inquiries.
• Conduct manual registration of the beneficiaries in collaboration with the scope registrar.
• Work with and consult with relief committees during the planning of distribution sessions and the accessibility of distribution sites to all beneficiary groups.
• Conduct regular community meetings in the project-targeted communities to know if they have met any challenges.
• Facilitate and supervise long-term-running field tasks such as finger printing of the participants.
• Act as an accountability focal person and sensitize target communities with the Complaint Response Feedback Mechanism.
• Undertake accountability-focused monitoring and share accountability briefs with the IRS MEAL team on a weekly basis.
• Collect market price data and share it with the program team by the end of every month.
• Ensure all project visibility in the area of your operation.
• Provide updates on the context of the target community and project progress to the project focal person on a weekly basis or daily during the crisis.
• Perform any other activities as assigned by your supervisor.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Effective Communication.
• Commitment and punctuality.
• Planning and Organizing and be prepared all the times.
• Adapting in work Environment and quick learner
• Resting organizational protocols
• Good inter-personal skills, commitment and motivation
• Must be a Somali national-fluent in written and spoken Somali and local languages.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

• Flexibility and ability to multi-task under pressure;
• Ability to work well in unstable and frequently changing security environments;
• Proven ability to work creatively and independently both in the field and in the office.
• Good inter-personal skills, commitment and motivation
• Must be a Somali national-fluent in written and spoken Somali and local languages.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Community Development, Development studies, Business or any other related fields.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Experience and knowledge of working with INGOs in Livelihood and Cash transfer, or Emergency programs.
• Proficiency in English and local language, both oral and written.
• Proficient in MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Prior experience in community engagements and mobilizations, training, coaching and mentoring, proven problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Additional job responsibilities

• Undertake any other duties assigned by the manager.

Equal Opportunities

• Equal opportunity state is fairness in which all employees are treated similarly and fairly

Child Safeguarding:

• IRS organisation has solid child safeguarding policy in place that describes how an organisation will keep the children and young people it works with safe.
• The policy will outline the organisation’s commitment to protecting children from harm.

Safeguarding and protection of staff:

• IRS organisation has safeguarding and protection staff policy that describes staff rights such as staff medical care, and all his entitled opportunities, and will keep the staff to work with safe.
• The policy will outline the organisation’s commitment to protecting staff from harm

Pre-requisites

• Willingness and ability to work at times with short notice
• Team worker
• It is essential that the post holder shows a good understanding and empathy with

  the Islamic values and principles as well as commitment to IRW’s vision and mission

• Proactive approach to self-development
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Highly organized individual, capable of handling multiple priorities, meeting deadlines,

  and managing time effectively.

• Experience in utilizing technology tools and also possess the ability to master new.