PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:
Mercy Corps is working in Ethiopia in close collaboration with government, other INGOs and UN agencies to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable populations in of the Somali Region. Since May 2008, Mercy Corps has been supporting pastoral households through animal health intervention. For the last six months, in order to mitigate the effect of the drought, Mercy corps was running a nutrition & WASH Programs in underserved areas of Jarar zone (Aware, Birkod, Ararso, Dig and Yoale woredas), Shebele (Denan, East Imi, Berano and Abakorow woredas). Mercy Corps Ethiopia invites motivated and qualified candidates to apply for the following vacant position.
Position Title: Community Mobilizer
OPEN POSITION: 6positions
Duty Station: Jarar/Shebelle zone of Ethiopian Somali Region
POSITION SUMMARY:
The community mobilizer facilitates community meetings, organizes events, and supports CMAM and WASH in implementing the project activities in Degehamedo, Gunagado, Bilibur of Jarar Zone & Tuliguled and Shabeley of Fafan zone and Dembel in Siti zone of Ethiopian Somali Region. This position will have a strong competency on community participation, ownership creation, communication skills, and relationship building and networking. Together with the other members of the team in proposed woredas will work to ensure that technical activities are implemented in accordance with established standards and recognized best practices to contribute to the achievement of the project's objectives.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Main responsibility:
· Timely mobilization and sensitization of emergency nutrition and WASH activities
· Provide ground information to Emergency Nutrition and WASH team and other program staff for situation in the project area
· Monitor key CMAM and WASH activities
· Track and document active case finding and follow up of cases
· Supervision of community volunteers and how they are working in the community
Specific Responsibility
· Overseeing implementation and monitoring while ensuring quality program delivery of the overall emergency nutrition and water, hygiene and sanitation activities
· Plan, implement and monitor community CMAM and WASH community outreach activities
· Select/recruit, train and supervise member of outreach volunteers at OTP sites
· Involve community leaders/ relevant health and WASH staffs in the recruitment process and promote of identification of outreach volunteers for each villages
· Report to woreda team leader and other relevant partners regarding outreach community activities and hygiene promotion campaigns
· Participate in CMAM and WASH general program management duties as requested/ordered by team leader/coordinator (eg. distribution planning, hygiene campaign, monitoring and reporting) and perform other tasks as negotiated (eg. training of volunteers)
· Explore all links with individuals’ members of the community (eg. TBAs, village leader etc) and develop their engagement and ownership of the community based activities
· Make a regular follow up on communities hygiene message utilization, POUWTC usage, treated water storage and use; provide regular feedback to communities
· Record examples of best practices
· In liaison with woreda team leader, advise and implement strategy to for active case finding (screening) within identified catchment areas using nutrition staffs/community volunteers
· In liaison with woreda team leader, create system /tools for screening follow up and feedback statistics to team leader and adapt case finding strategy appropriately
· In liaison with woreda team leader, coordinate the activities of outreach volunteers and hygiene campaigns, ensure active participation of outreach volunteers in OTP
· In liaison with woreda team leader, ensure that fully operation system in place for follow up of children not returning to the program (including absentees, defaulters, deaths) and children at risk (long staying/not gaining weight) and post visits feedback is given to team leader
· Monitor and ensure the program’s engagement with disadvantaged or excluded group
· Support of delivery of nutrition, health and Wash education messages of appropriate content and manner to mothers and care takers
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
· Diploma in Health, Nutrition, Community Development and Social Science Discipline
· At least 2 years of experience working in community based healthcare activities preferable working with NGOs
· Local languages of the project area is COMPULSORY
Desirable:
· Good human relations and Analytical capacity
· Knowledge of nutrition-WASH and related issues
· Good organizational, training and Communication capacities
· Able to work under pressure & to meet tight deadlines