Community Mobilization Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Action Against Hunger | ACF International is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Community Mobilization Officer

Location: Yobe

Job Description

• The Community Mobilization Officer will provide support in the implementation, organisation, follow-up and reporting of community mobilization activities of the CMAM program in close collaboration with the SMOH/LGA and ACF LGA Officers. She/he will implement and supervise the activities in the communities to strengthen coverage of CMAM, IYCF and WASH activities.

Key Objectives

Objective 1:

• Undertake Community Mobilization Activities in collaboration with the health facility staff
• Organize sensitization meetings with community leaders, village heads, community elders, traditional leaders, and TBAs to communicate the details of overall ACF program objectives with specific focus on CMAM, IYCF & WASH key messages.
• Undertake community mapping and other similar exercises to facilitate community level planning and decision making processes.
• Promote integration of WASH and nutrition activities by facilitating the use of household latrines and identifying beneficiaries for the program from target villages identified by ACF.

Objective 2:

• Support the health facilities with active case findings, defaulter tracking & follow-up:
• Conduct regular/refresher trainings for the CVs on CMAM, IYCF and WASH, and ensure that the CVs identifies active SAM cases in the community and refer them to the nearest health facilities
• Involve in joint planning to follow up on referral children to OTP to Stabilization Centre as well as SC to OTP
• Regular follow up with the LGA Officers to identify the absentees at the health facility level
• Work closely with the CVs to plan and organize regular home visits to the children who are absent from the program
• Work closely with the CVs to identify the communities with high defaulters and causes of the high defaulters rates
• Work with the community/village/religious leaders & CVs to improve the community sensitization & identify the solutions in order to reduce defaulters

Objective 3:

• To participate actively in IYCF & WASH activities in the community
• Ensure that IYCF mother support groups are formed according to the plan
• Organized regular mother support group meetings at the community
• Develop monthly health education session plan including CMAM, IYCF & WASH key messages
• Set up regular health education sessions in the community in consultation with key nutrition & WASH staff
• Report the outcome of the meetings using the proper data tools
• Liaise with Water Users Committee to assess and report WASH needs in health facilities and make recommendations for intervention.

Qualifications & Essential Skills

• Diploma in Health/Nutrition related sciences with a major in Community Mobilization preferred; combination of work experience and sufficiently related areas of study may be accepted in lieu
• Strategic thinking, planning, reporting and communication skills
• Fluent in English and Hausa; other regional languages an asset; solid literacy skills in English
• Interpersonal skills - able to work with diverse stakeholders and partners effectively
• Precision and exactitude
• Basic computer literacy
• Good capacity to work in a team
• Knowledge of admission criteria and Nigeria CMAM protocol
• Resident of community area (LGA) of work, networks within community
• Previous NGO experience in a similar setting
• Proficiency with local languages (Kanouri, Fulani)
• Knowledge of arithmetic to make anthropometric measurements and statistics

Application Closing Date
25th June, 2014.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV together with their Cover Letter as an email attachment to the following email address to: [email protected] Applicants should indicate in the subject title of their forwarding mail, the title of the position they are applying for.

Note: Please do not attach your certificates to the application email. Any application received after Wednesday 25th June will not be considered.