Senior Community Mobilizer – JG 3

• ChildFund Office: Ethiopia
• Manager/ Supervisor title: Project Coordinator II
• Position type: Full-time fixed term
• Work environment: On-site

About ChildFund

ChildFund is a child-focused international development organization that works in 23 countries to connect children with the people, resources and institutions they need to grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe, no matter where they are.

ChildFund’s Values

ChildFund values a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible environment where everyone is welcomed and celebrated equally. In our culture of connection, you will have ample opportunity to grow, learn, and lead while contributing your talents and innovations to our inspiring mission.

ChildFund’s Commitment

ChildFund International has a zero-tolerance policy regarding sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) and all other forms of harm by its staff, partners, and other representatives in the delivery of its mission and services for children. ChildFund is committed to creating a safe environment in the workplace as well as in the communities where it delivers programs and services. ChildFund expects every staff member, partner, and representative to adhere to this commitment and to ensure all organizational policies and standards are followed. This position is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal records check and/or disclosure to ensure program participants are safeguarded.

About This Role

The Senior Community Mobilizer is the front-line for implementation of the project. He/she works on-site with the local community, target IDP sites, protection facilities, and stakeholders. Responsible for Enrolment, registration, and arrangement of project participants in general protection and multi-purpose cash. She/he records and keeps all the necessary documents on the operations executed. The Snr. Community Mobilizer will build relationships between ChildFund Ethiopia and the community. He/she will be responsible to monitor general protection and multi-purpose cash programmes.

Primary Responsibilities

• Facilitate establishment of participant targeting and verification committee, monitors the procedures involved in the selection, verification and registration of the project participants and develop systems jointly with relevant program partners and staff to ensure accurate, accountable and consistent targeting process of the program participants,
• Prepare Master List of participants who are targeted for all project activities,
• Ensure quality management of protection and appropriate multi-purpose cash services are given,
• Regularly facilitate community conversation sessions on topics of protection and multi-purpose cash
• Mobilize the target community participating in the different project activities,
• Ensure that the target beneficials have access to and benefit from project interventions
• Ensure children and community feedback is regularly collected, analyzed, and timely and appropriate measures are taken
• Educate the target communities on protection risks and cash multi-purpose cash, and follow up the implementation of same.
• Remain alert and responsive to any safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills which will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the safeguarding policy and procedures, and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the Safeguarding Policy.
• Promotes active safeguarding activities in the project target sites.
• Regularly mentor, couch, lead, and conduct performance appraisals of Community Volunteers and ensure regular feedback
• Ensure proper distribution practices in line with the donor and organizational standards and in line with the program requirements
• Give technical support to the community in IDP sites and host communities
• Mobilize the community of the catchments area for any required activities.
• Collect required data/information for monitoring and evaluation and prepare periodic reports on all activities implemented in the IDP sites and kebeles.
• Give orientations and training to community on the type of services provided by the project and their obligations.
• Establish and maintain proper record of project targeted children and communities
• Conduct daily visits of the IDP sites, communities, fill in information and collect other monitoring data on the standard formats.
• Prepare periodic reports on all project activities.
• Facilitate the implementation of protection and multi-purpose cash service in IDP sites and target communities.
• Work closely with world-based project officers, the community and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate appropriate legal, medical and psycho-social services for SGBV survivors
• Identify lessons learned from the day-to-day activities and prepare them for communication, dissemination and documentation purposes
• Support Baseline, endline assessments and protection monitoring
• Conduct field monitoring visits to monitor project activities / interventions against Quality Benchmarks/Quality Checklists and produce & share weekly reports to concerned program team as well as management team based on quality and accountability findings and incorporate inputs from project team in an agreed action plan.

Required Experience and Education

• At least one-year relevant project implementation experience in protection, gender programme with emergency cash distributions within NGOs or similar

EDUCATION/certifications

• BA/BSC degree/Diploma in Gender, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Social Anthropology, Community Development, Development Studies and related fields.

Required Competencies

ChildFund’s Core Competencies

• Teamwork: Understands role on the team and the associated responsibilities and accountabilities.
• Communication: Actively listens, learns through observation, and uses clear and precise language.
• Results orientation gets things done; Meets performance expectations associated with the role.
• Decision making uses good judgement, Alerts others to possible problems in a timely manner.
• Resilience: Maintains professionalism in difficult or stressful situations.
• Digital Literacy : Demonstrates basic awareness of technological trends and potential application for their work.

Other Required Competencies

• Substantial experience in coordinating, mobilizing community, planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring and reporting
• Cultural and gender sensitivity
• Knowledge of the area, socio-culture and local language where the post is located as an added advantage
• Practical experiences in the use of specific protection, food/cash distribution and monitoring tools
• Trained in protection
• Knowledge of local languages is advantageous.
• Experience working in refugee settings or with vulnerable communities.
• Knowledge of protection interventions.
• Experience working with NGOs, UN agencies, or humanitarian organizations.
• Familiarity with the protection Standards frameworks.
• Knowledge of local languages/Tigrigna is mandatory.