Community Mobilizer (Male)

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

Community Mobilization:

• Conduct household interviews and focus group discussions to collect information as required,
• Act as liaison between communities and the EiE, maintain good relationships with beneficiaries, caregivers and local stakeholders
• Outreach to beneficiaries fitting into the criteria set by the EiE project, within the geographical area, and surrounding neighbourhoods
• Arranges, provides and coordinates the delivery of services to children in strong partnership with other service providers
• Keeps regular contacts with children and families during the educational enrolments through phone calls, home visits and meetings in programme premises

Psycho-Social Support & Life Skills Facilitator;

• Plan & facilitate life skills psycho-social suport sessions according tp project requirements, beneficiaries needs & identified age groups
• Promotes, ensures and establishes the child / adolescent as a central actor within the curricula implemented
• Ensures child’s best interest is always ensured,
• Ensures equal participation by girls and boys, children with specific needs, etc...
• Ensures a safe and child-friendly atmosphere within the center
• Engage with caregivers to through group discussions, awareness raising sessions, etc.. to ensure holistic approach and involvement of caregivers within provided services to children and adolescents

Awareness, Support & Referral;

• Refer identified benefciiaries requiring further one-to-one support or case management to MHPSS Specialist,
• Refer beneficiaries with special needs to specialized NGOs according to predefined referral pathways in collaboration with MHPSS specialist
• Assist in the coordination and delivery of community child protection and education awareness raising sessiosn under the supervision of the MHPSS Specialist
• Organizes further specialized awareness sessions in collaboration with specialized NGOs (Netowrking, Mapping and Referral)

Monitoring and Evaluation;

• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of activities by collecting appropriate data required for the implementation and execution of EiE project activities
• Ensure the execution of baseline, midline and endline evaluations within the curriculums provided to assess quality of services provided to beneficiaries
• Reassesses periodically the child needs and progress in meeting the objectives defined by the MHPSS Specialist
• Regularly monitors and documents data, ensures quality of data and uses is included in reports to track individual progress of children (within Life skills sessions)
• Collects regularly information about different indicators of the programme unit and reports to MHPSS Specialist

Knowledge Management;

• To perform all organizaitonal and administrative work related to outreach activtiies, including regular reporting to MHPSS Specialist
• To participate in weekly team meetings with MHPSS team, and within VteC broad team meetings (where/when found applicable)
• To ensure appropriate and adequate documentation of data collected (hard & soft copies)
• Sharing of information within the field-level with the project’s team as lessons learned
• Ensure proficiency in compiling weekly reports
• Any other duties found related to the nature of the job as suggested by the MHPSS Specialist, VteC Supervisor and Project Manager.

Child Protection

SOS Children’s Villages works in accordance with the UNCRC: The best interest of the child is our primary consideration. Every child has the right to develop to his or her full potential, to quality, education, participation and non-discrimination. Everybody has the responsibility to protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence,maltreatment, neglect, harm and discrimination.

Qualifications Required:

• BS degree in Social Work or similar
• Highly motivated to committed to support and assist refugee children regardless of their origin and cultural background

Skills and Competenncies:

• He/she is a communicative person, approachable, credible, confident, leadership qualities, ability to command respect & authority, good planner & organiser, good communicator, good attitude to SOS Philosophy
• He/she demonstrates a positive role model, as well as conflict-solving behaviours. Acquires familiarity with creative methodologies and approaches in engaging with children.
• Must be well organized with good oral and written communication skills and the ability to multi-task while prioritizing main objectives. He/she should have a professional manner, possess good interpersonal skills and a very strong work ethic. He/she is very emphatic, honest and possess the ability to convince people.
• Proficient computer skills in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word & Excel) are required.