World Vision
16 days ago
11/22/2024
12/22/2024
Community Mobilizers (Open To Local Residents Of Lafey Sub County)
ManderaKE
We believe every child matters. Our goal is to ensure all children live life in all its fullness. To achieve this, we work in remote and hard to reach areas to find solutions to health, education, food, water and sanitation challenges.
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Key Responsibilities:
Mobilization and Project Implementation at Local Level
- Ensure mobilization for all ELEVATE project interventions.
- Link to the community, local institutions and partners at the local level for project implementation of three track ministry.
- Ensure use of participatory approaches to enable the community ownership of development initiatives.
- Mobilize community and stakeholders to participate in key national days including world environment day, project handover celebrations.
- Promote child protection and support systems for abused children in line with the project Implementation reach.
- Mobilize and coordinate capacity building initiative for communities and Local partners
Planning and Reporting for Local programming.
- Facilitate participatory identification of local needs and resources.
- Ensure monthly schedule for field monitoring.
- Facilitate participatory monitoring that involves Local level partners and communities.
- Ensure data collection using the standardized monitoring tools.
- Participate in the evaluation and baseline planning
- Develop monthly field cluster and progress reports and filing of the same.
- Engage community leaders and partners in the planning of the monitoring activities.
- Participate in regular reflections on monitoring practice to make improvements as needed
Engagement and Networking.
- Frontline representation of WVK in key community level stakeholder forums including all the L&R activities
- Identify community needs and communicate to the Manager for resource mobilization.
- Facilitate community members to advocate on Child Well-being issues, climate change issues and best approaches and support
- Collaborate with Local partners to support for AACs, County Government and partners to support Child Protection and Child participation interventions.
- Ensure Child protection issues are reported and adhered to within the required timelines.
Other
- Any other duties as assigned by Supervisor
Knowledge, Qualification and skills required:
- Diploma in Community Development, Business Management /Development studies/social work or any other related courses in a relevant field. Degree is an added advantage
- At least 2 years field experience working with Communities in refugee/host community programming focusing on children and familiar with program design and management in an NGO context.
- Experience in working with communities.
- Very strong communication skills
- Knowledge of humanitarian industry including sphere standards (Core Humanitarian Standards),
- Strong problem solving, interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Ability to work with different partners, local authorities, local organizations and NGOs, to develop and maintain positive relationships.
- Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity and physical stamina.
- Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment
- Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources
- Ability to cope and deal with stress and work under stressful work conditions is a requirement
- Commitment to World Vision Core Values and Vision Statement
- Ability to exhibit exemplary lifestyle as interpreted in specific local cultural context
- Agreement with World Vision’s Christian ethos and participation in devotions
- Knowledgeable of MS Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
- Applicants MUST be local residents from Lafey subcounty, Mandera County
ManderaKE
Bachelor
Management & Leadership