General job description:
The Community Mobilization Officer will have a transversal role to the organization’s Programs in Zulia, Falcon and Lara, being the focal point for the community promoters of the partners, who maintain constant communication with communities. In addition, it leads the implementation of the organization’s Community Mobilization Strategy in articulated work with the partners present in the territory and the team of programmatic officers, ensuring the documentary management of tools, findings and reports, using the organization’s battery of tools. The role constitutes a key piece in the processes of identification, intervention and monitoring of community processes and response strategies in Venezuela, working hand in hand with the program team and its partners.
Main responsibilities:
Technical quality:
- Know, understand, appropriate and ensure the full implementation of the Community Mobilization Strategy.
- Understand the community approach process and tools of the partners and complement, strengthen the partner’s actions based on the Community Mobilization Strategy.
- Ensure the implementation of all the activities contained in the Community Mobilization Strategy and ensure its documentation and systematization, organized, traceable, complete and the availability of all documents, reports, as well as its distribution and dissemination among partners and the program team.
- Follow up and feedback, to find out how the community perceives the intervention and / or presence of the organization in the area; in order to identify,
- Identify areas of possible intervention in the Zulia, Lara and Falcón States.
- Train and accompany partners in the implementation of the community mobilization strategy, including methodologies to enter and / or leave a community, in accordance with the IRC methodology.
- Support in identifying and relating to key institutions, community leaders, community-based organizations, and civil society.
- Participate in the processes of identification and diagnosis of needs in the intervention areas.
- Identify existing public service offerings and potential organizations that provide responses (service mapping).
Program Development
- Contribute to the development of the strategic direction of the programs.
- Coordinate the implementation of the Community Mobilization Strategy with personnel from the programmatic areas (Health, Protection of Children, Education, Protection and Empowerment of Women and Food Security).
- Operationalize the Community Mobilization Strategy that the organization has and comply with the activities and standards that are requested there.
- Strengthen the referencing system between IRC partners and other key actors.
- Together with the Field Management, promote the participation of partners in humanitarian coordination spaces.
- Promote Safeguarding, protection and principles of humanitarian action.
- Implement information gathering strategies and provide reports at the required opportunity.
- Strengthen inter-institutional relations between the organization and key public and private entities and other cooperation organizations present in the territory.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Accompany in the field and in practice the feedback mechanisms, complaints and suggestions implemented by the partners.
- Accompany in the processes of monitoring, monitoring and evaluation of impacts and changes in communities to identify achievements, lessons learned, risks and possible negative effects of interventions.
- Collect testimonial and audiovisual evidence, with the due consent of the clients throughout the implementation of the project, in a chronologically ordered manner and by activities carried out.
Inform and raise awareness about the various feedback channels existing in the project, in addition to promoting its use and adapting it according to the target population
Job requirements:
Education:
- Professional in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology or Bachelor’s degree in areas of Social Sciences.
Preferred experience and skills:
- Recognition of the age, gender, diversity and intercultural approach. Understanding community dynamics in the local context, including indigenous communities.
- Minimum two years of community experience in entering and leaving territories in accordance with humanitarian principles.
- Minimum two years of experience in cooperation organizations, preferably ONGI
- Minimum two years of experience in implementing protection, humanitarian care or development programs in the State of Zulia, Falcón and Lara.
- Previous experience in the implementation of humanitarian programs, development and humanitarian care in different cultural settings.
- Understanding the key principles of humanitarian action.
- Demonstrate understanding of working with vulnerable populations.
- Previous experience in adult training.
- Good handling of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Leadership skills, good management of adult groups and NNA.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to relate.
- Strong reporting capabilities
Work environment***:***
- The presence and work movements geographically and the scope of the program could change as the program grows.
- Field and office work environment.
How to apply
If you want to apply, please send your resume through the following link:
https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/48019?c=rescue
Application period: until February 8, 2024
