The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated 

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. 

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.

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Position: Community Mobilization Assistant

Location: Taiz

Grade: 5

Contract Length: till December (with possibility to renewal)

The Opportunity:

Under supervision of community mobilization officer the community mobilization assistant will be a crucial part of a team responsible and accountable for ensuring the implementation of SCI community based activities related to health and nutrition program, Strengthen and accompany Community Health volunteers in carrying out detection and referral as well as sensitization/awareness among the targeted communities.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Sensitize the communities within all the villages under Catchment areas; ensure activities understanding and support from communities.
•   Ensure the proper identification by communities of their related Community Health Volunteers.
• Support communities in identifying Community Health Volunteers if not available.
• Participate in elaborating training   modules   and       suitable   teaching materials.
• Support CHV in organising their activities.
• Ensure regular active screening sessions in relation with Health and nutrition unit schedule and support CHVs in conducting them.
• Ensure regular awareness sessions are conducted and support CHVs in providing them to communities.
• Support CHVs in following up cases at home (new admissions, defaulters, etc…)
• Provide CHVs with adequate work material (CHV kit) and reporting/referral formats.
• With coordination with supervisors develop clear work plan for community health and nutrition activities, and share it with community volunteers.
• Support CHV in organising their activities.
• Keep close coordination and liaison with field team, community, and partners and assist them in developing high quality and diversity health education massages.
• Reinforce the link between community volunteers, team member and community (through regular monitoring).
• Document and share lesson learnt achievements and successes from the field.
• Produce regularly accurate reporting weekly and monthly list of the mobilized villages, and the reports of the CV referrals as correct and wrong referrals to direct supervisor.
• To conduct monthly meeting with community health volunteers to discuss all related issues and to put plan for the coming period.
• To take any other relevant task given by the supervisor.   

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency
• Commitment to Save the Children Values

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3–4-year work experience in Social work with focus on community development and mobilization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including patience, Diplomacy, Capability to create strong relationship between among all teams’ members and community.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills
• Self-motivated.
• Strong training facilitation skills.
• Protection/community development experience.
• Ability to represent Save the Children at meetings with government officials
• Capacity to work under pressure.

To apply:

https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/9105

Published Date: 11/09/2024