Community Assistants at New Foundation for Displaced Persons (NFDP)

New Foundation for Displaced Persons (NFDP) is a non-governmental organization established under the Nigeria law dedicated to providing crucial support to individuals displaced by insurgency and crises to survival, recover and rebuild their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Assistant

Location: Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• The Community Mobilization Assistant will provide technical, programmatic, and administrative support.
• The assistant will work closely with the project technical staff and the community to ensure all project activities run smoothly.
• The Assistant will support the state programme teams in planning and programme implementation of the community capacity and mobilization component.

Key Areas of Responsibilities
Technical, Programmatic, and Administrative Support:

• Contribute to technical work related to community capacity strengthening, including strategies, toolkits, communication materials, 
• Participate in the drafting and implementation of approved work plans
• Mobilize community-based groups, including WDCs, VDCs, community influencers and opinion leaders.
• Promote community participation and inclusion so as to encourage community ownership over activities implemented;
• Monitor project events and stakeholder’s activities in coordination with project technical leads and capture success stories, to effectively capture lessons learnt on the ground from the projects;
• Provide weekly field reports, capturing activities progress, lessons learned as well as general situation and community updates and needs; and collaborate with relevant teams to ensure documentation of all community mobilization and M&E activities;
• Assist with the establishment and maintenance of effective relationships at the State level with health partners, implementing partners, State MOHs and other key stakeholders.

Qualifications
Essential:

• Level of Education - First Degree BSc / BA / HND / NCE or National Diploma in Communications, Journalism, Social Work, Psychology, Health, or related Social Science field.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with donor-funded projects in related tasks
• Prior work experience in community engagement in Northern Nigeria.
• Working Knowledge of MS Office Packages and database software and applications
• Well-organized, with ability to track multiple activities and deadlines
• Ability to work successfully in a cross-cultural, team-based environment
• Fluent English language skills (written and verbal).
• Commitment to the values, mission, of NFDP.

Application Closing Date
24th August, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online