Community Mobilization Officer is needed at Action Against Hunger Nigeria
Job Title: Community Mobilization Officer
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Type: Full Time
Department: Programmes – Health and Nutrition
Starting date: As Soon As Possible
Direct Line Manager: Nutrition and Health Sector Manager
Objective 1
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- Provide support to the Project Manager to implement mobilization activities throughout the project implementation stages.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Develop a community mobilization and sensitization strategy document for effective program delivery.
- Responsible for the implementation of mobilization activities at the LGA level in line with the work plan to adhere to the deadlines.
- To coordinate with LGA officials to share plan and implementation of the Health and WASH activities.
- Provide training and orientation to the target communities regarding the HeRoN project ( Health and WASH) and other mobilization activities part of the project.
- Provide guidelines and training to assistants for effective community mobilization at the LGA level.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long-distance walking to screening sites
- Capacity to supervise and coach.
- Ability to work in an environment where there are physical discomforts associated with a change in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust or dirt
- Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive.
- Excellent team, budget and project management, and representation competencies
Preferred:
- Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
- Fluency in English and Hausa
- Commitment to AAH mission, values, and policy.
- A resident of community area (LGA) of work, networks within the community)
- Proficiency with local languages
- Previous NGO experience managing mobilization in different interventions (i.e.FSL, WASH, and Nutrition).
- Report writing skills