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Job title: Community Outreach Officer
Location: Gambella_ Itang
Reference No: HO/ 089/18
Number: Four(4)
Closing date May 31, 2018
GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply!
ABOUT US
GOAL has been working in Ethiopia since 1984 implementing a range of multi-sectoral development, resiliency and humanitarian responses. GOAL Ethiopia is currently working with street children, pastoralists and rural small holders and responds to humanitarian crises in Ethiopia by working closely with local communities, local government and other key actors with a strong emphasis on resiliency, preparedness and longer term impacts. GOAL Ethiopia's major funders are USAID, OFDA, ECHO, BPRM, Irish Aid and UNOCHA.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
GOAL Ethiopia is looking for a competent, motivated, experienced Community Outreach Officer for its Humanitarian Response Programmes located at Gambella refugee programme with a dynamic, technically competent and motivated personality.
ABOUT YOU:
You'll be an experienced with humanitarian works with Flexible and creative approach, highly motivated and able to take the initiative and work unsupervised fosters working in teams & team work spirit, you also be engaged into the overall management of the day to day activities. You will be responsible for the overall management of GOAL’s outreach programme in the management of Community-based Acute Malnutrition in field site (Refugee Camp) through community mobilization, sensitization and education.
REQUIREMENTS:
Bsc. degree or Diploma in nursing, Social Sciences or related field with a minimum of two years’ experience for Bsc and four years’ experience for diploma holder in community outreach programmes, therapeutic and supplemental feeding or related fields.
Experience on adult learning skills and counselling of mothers for essential nutrition action.
Experience in planning and organizing community outreach activities;
Experience in delivering training to community volunteers or outreach workers on screening for malnutrition using MUAC and edema;
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken in English; knowledge of Local language of Gambella region is a must.
Experience in supervision of outreach activities and nutritional surveys;
Experience of providing hands on in service training for community members and volunteers and providing related reports;
Understanding of the Humanitarian response programme nature and willing to travel and live in field site, with frequent transfer from site to site.
Accountability & responsiveness within areas of responsibilities,
Sensitive to Gender and cross-cutting issues.
Desirable requirements:
- Familiarity to local culture
- Computer literate; good English communication skills, both spoken and written; · - -- Passionate, strongly dedicated and highly committed to work for the improvement of the local community
- Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic, persistent and professional even under adverse, stressful or difficult situations
Remuneration & Benefits:
Salary Birr - 11,401.00/month
Transportation Allowance - 10% of monthly salary.
Medical Allowance - Birr 6500/annum (will be added in your monthly salary) and
Pension - as per the government pension scheme (11% from the employer and 7% from the employee).
Hardship Allowance – 50% of monthly salary
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