Community Mobilization Assistant at the International Rescue Committee (IRC)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Mobilization Assistant

Requisition ID: req56407
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Sector: Health
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Work Arrangement: In-person

Job Description

• As part of the health team, the Community mobilization assistant, who is based in Maiduguri, will oversee a six-month integrated emergency flood response in MMC & Jere, Borno State.
• In addition to providing technical oversight and support capacity of government-supported PHC under this grant in areas like Emergency preparedness and response (EPR), Minimum initial service package (MISP) for SRH (family planning, maternal and neonatal care, case management of sexually transmitted diseases, and the clinical management of sexual assault survivors) and routine consultation for communicable and non-communicable disease including under 5.
• He or she will endeavor to ensure improved quality of the project clinical activities and improved quality of the project clinical activities for the Health and SRH service package in the NHF-designated outreach clinic and government supported health facility.

Major Responsibilities
Program community mobilization:

• The position ensures the implementation of a quality Health program, in accordance with project proposal.
• The community Mobilization assistant’s is responsible the implementation of Health educational and promotional activities as well as conducting all community awareness / mobilization activities related to Health and Reproductive Health (RH) for women, girls, men and boys in flood affected communities
• Lead community-based surveillance and early warning system for disease outbreaks
• He/ she will supervise a network of CHIPs agents, community volunteers and traditional birth attendants and work closely with the other members of the reproductive health & SRH team.
• Design and lead efforts to improve community awareness and acceptance of health services. Implement community mobilization efforts to improve women, girls, men and boys’ access to and use of reproductive health services.
• Lead monthly stakeholders engagement in MMC/jere.

 Staff supervision:

• Supervise Incentive mobilizers, referral focal points, CHVs and CHIP agents
• Lead the community mobilization assistant in implementation of SBCC and RCCE emergency response activities .
• Lead capacity development of local community structures on demand creation for health and SRH services, RCCE and SBCC across implementation
• Actively participate in community-based surveillance and early warning for disease outbreaks across intervention locations.

Reporting:

• Work with the M&E team to ensure tracking of daily community engagement activities and monthly data reporting.
• Support in the development of monthly project activity report, quarterly and project final report

Key Working Relationships:

• Position reports to: Health Manager
• Position directly Supervises: CHV, CHIPS and referral focal points.

Qualifications
Education:

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Health Education and Social Science.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading health promotion and community engagement (Previous experience working with IRC added advantage)
• Experience in leading Risk communication and communication engagement and social behavioral change communication in Borno state programming.
• Experience with office management software like MS Office (MS Excel and MS Word, specifically)
• Significant experience of stakeholders’ engagement.
• Ability to work with displaced communities with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.