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The International Rescue Committee
CLOSEDSRH Community Mobilization Assistant - Zamfara
Gusau, Nigeria
CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS
SRH Community Mobilization Assistant - Zamfara
Closing: Jun 25, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: Jun 11, 2024 (26 days ago)
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Job Summary
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Education:
- Registered Nurse / Midwife or CHEW. Additional qualifications in community engagement are a plus.
Work Experience:
- Two years’ experience of working as a community mobilizer٫ or other similar position.
- Significant experience of stakeholders’ engagement.
- Experience with office management software like MS Office (MS Excel and MS Word, specifically)
- Strong organization skills with a problem-solving attitude
- Very good in time management and ability to work under pressure with high level of flexibility.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with close attention to detail.
Responsibilities
Education:
- Registered Nurse / Midwife or CHEW. Additional qualifications in community engagement are a plus.
Work Experience:
- Two years’ experience of working as a community mobilizer٫ or other similar position.
- Significant experience of stakeholders’ engagement.
- Experience with office management software like MS Office (MS Excel and MS Word, specifically)
- Strong organization skills with a problem-solving attitude
- Very good in time management and ability to work under pressure with high level of flexibility.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with close attention to detail.
Under the technical supervision of Health Manager -, the responsibilities of the Community Mobilizer include but are not limited to the following:
Community Activities:
- Conducts assessments and surveys in the community to identify trends and needs.
- Participation in the design, plan, and input to the work-plans, based on identified trends and needs.
- Implementation of community mobilization activities to specifically access “hard to reach” and vulnerable beneficiaries.
- Organize culturally sensitive educational and promotional activities to raise awareness on RH topics/services, including Family Planning, Mother and Neonatal health, Antenatal Care, and Postnatal Care, Awareness of STIs and infection prevention, Referral, and guidance for survivors of sexual assault.
- Contribute to the development of a variety of health education materials and tools to fit the context.
- Mobilize the community, women and girls, women’s groups, community groups etc. to increase RH awareness and service utilization, together with RH and GBV teams.
- Liaise with midwives and community health workers to track and monitor women/clients targeted by the program.
- Ensure the safe and confidential referral of identified survivors of sexual assault to GBV services.
- Organize meetings with community representatives, and target groups as needed.
- Engage community leaders, stake holders and influential members of the community in creating awareness and community support for Reproductive Health.
- Participate in the recruitment of community health volunteers, traditional birth attendants, Peer educators and Men champions.
- Training of community health volunteers, Traditional birth attendants, Peer Educators and Men champions on RH topics/service promotion, hygiene promotion, waste management, infection prevention etc.
- Supervise community volunteers and traditional birth attendants during planned community activities.
- Participate in community workshops, meetings, or any discussions on reproductive health.
- Participate in the development and translation of all messages in the most appropriate language.
- Active participation in the regular RH/WPE meetings.
- Identify advocacy concerns, Initiate, and coordinate advocacy actions.
Monitoring Responsibilities:
- Keep record of all the health education/promotional sessions (disaggregated by gender/ age/ IDP/Host etc.).
- Compile weekly summary of community mobilization activities.
- Responsible for compiling timely monthly community mobilization activity reports and data compilation.
Other Duties:
- Ensure that all distribution of community mobilization items is done in a timely manner according to distribution plan with relevant supporting documentations.
- Keep a record of distributed/used materials and provides a monthly stock report.
- Any other assigned task by supervisors
- Confidentiality:
- Ensure non-disclosure of any information whatsoever about practices and IRC activities to any other person or organization without permission, except in the normal performance of the service.
Key Working Relationships:
- Position Reports to: Health Manager
- Position directly supervises: Community SRH/ PHC Volunteers, CHIPS, and Traditional Birth Attendants
- Indirect Reporting: Health Manager/ Senior Health Officer
- Internal: WPE Community Mobilizers, Case Workers, and Midwives
- External: Community Leaders/Stakeholders
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