Community Mobilizer

Job Description

Title: Community Mobilizer

Company Name: Concern Worldwide

Vacancy: 05

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ At-least Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition/Social Science or relevant subject from reputed institute (Master’s degree will add extra value).

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Mobilizing the Community Outreach teams to work with the target community to ensure that the Nutrition in Emergency Response Project activity is delivered with maximum efficiency and professionalism.
∎ Ensuring that the targeted community (under five, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women) are linked to the nutrition support Centre for services eg. Counselling, diagnosis, treatment.
∎ Supervise the implementation of effective CMAM approach specially the community outreach activities including-screening, identification, referral, follow up, listing of all the household in targeted area including the pregnant and lactating women, under five children and adolescent girls, MCG activities and mobilization of the community.
∎ Ensure the successful implementation of Infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) and MAMI activities in the center and community level along with ECCD roll out with guidance from Nutrition Site Supervisor.
∎ Ensuring that volunteers are adequately trained and are regularly supporting screening and refer the SAM, MAM and at-risk children.
∎ Ensuring that the nutrition mobilization plan is developed jointly with the team and delivered timely and effectively to ensure improvement in the nutrition status of the project participants
∎ Ensure optimal community participation in the project by supporting the CRM including providing regular feedback to the community.
∎ Building rapport with the beneficiaries; to encourage them to seek help for their problems by opening up safe and comfortable space where they can express themselves and share their constraints.
∎ Liaising with other stakeholders operating in the sector within the same target area and identify competent local resources for referrals whenever necessary.
∎ Enable a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective learning and sharing across the team
∎ Orient team members on the Complaint Response Mechanism (CRM) within Concern’s programming
∎ Be aware of, understand and comply with all of Concern’s policies and procedures (P4, finance, logistics, HR, security management etc.).
∎ Reporting and documentation of performed project activities.
∎ Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Country Director or the line manager.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Around 2 years’ progressive experience to work in Community nutrition programmes (For highly technical candidates, experience is considerable).
∎ Technical knowledge on Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programming.
∎ Sound knowledge on IYCF/E, MAMI, ECCD and Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) activities
∎ Having good knowledge on Rohingya refugee programmes will add value.
∎ Demonstrate ability to think and manage strategically, plan and meet deadlines
∎ Satisfactory fluency in English, Bangla and Rohingya Dialect.
∎ Proficient knowledge of standard computer software if possible.

Salary: Tk. 36456 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Monthly Hardship Allowance of BDT 10,000/-, Bonus (02), Group life and Hospitalisation Insurance coverages, OPD coverage, Mobile ceiling and other admissible benefits as per organisational policy.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 12 Mar 2022

Company Information:
∎ 10 Mar 2022
∎ Concern Worldwide
∎ Business : Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world`s poorest countries. With its head quarter in Ireland, Concern has been working in Bangladesh since 1972.

Category: NGO/Development

: Please mark the position applied in the email subject line.Notice: Due to the urgent requirement to fill in the position, we will review applications on a rolling basis within the mentioned period. If you consider yourself suitable, please apply at your earliest