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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Community Mobilization and Capacity Building Officer (Local Government)
Location: Abia, Nigeria
Job Type: Contract
Description
- Support the mobilization of women into affinity groups, ensuring that the process is inclusive and engages a broad range of actors, such as Government Institutions, (NGOs), Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) etc., to collaborate with them for project implementation
Responsibilities
- Design and conduct training on community development and empowerment to the Ward Facilitation Staff working with the project as required
- Mobilize and encourage the community leaders to improve community involvement in the project
- Establish and maintain and a project grievance mechanism that is accessible to members of all communities that are targeted by the project
- Prepare semi-annual (six month) progress reports in the area under his/her responsibility
- Contribute towards the analysis of general socio-economic conditions of the selected wards, as well as in the formulation of methodology for replication of lessons learned
- Support the identification of existing women groups in the community, assess their practices/mode of operation, and existing interventions beneficial to the women groups
- Advice Ward Facilitators on the use of participatory and informed social mobilization strategies to identify excluded women to facilitate mobilization of women into Women Affinity Groups at the community level
- Assist in the development and delivery of training modules on life skills and psycho-social training to trainers to WAGs members
- Advise and support the implementation of strategies to avoid elite capture and exclusion as part of project formation
- Develop and design the strategy for systematic tracking of the WAGs members in various communities
- Support the project in the area of knowledge transfer and institutionalization
- Assist and advise in the preparation of state workplans
- Perform any other task that may be assigned by the project.
Requirements
- Three to five years of experience in Social and community Mobilization and organising trainings for groups and individuals at all levels.
- Experience working at the grassroots level
- Knowledge of project LGAs.
- Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences (Sociology, Anthropology) or in a related field is recommended but can be substituted for added experience working on community mobilization and social issues at the grassroots level
- Ability to work with communities from various social, religious and cultural backgrounds
- Good communication written and oral skills.
- Ability to work with communities from various social, religious and cultural backgrounds.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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