GBV Community Mobilizer

Job Description

Title: GBV Community Mobilizer

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree (Social workers, Education, Psychology, Nurse, Public health, relevant degree)

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ As a GBV community mobilizer, you will be responsible for RI community-based protection mechanism and support SASA! Together methodology, which is the holistic community engagement for social change to create environment where violence against women is never accepted and women can live safe, fulfilling and dignified lives. You will be under supervision of Community Outreach Officer.
∎ Reporting to: Community Outreach Officer
∎ Department: Protection
∎ Expected Start Date: January 1, 2020.
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2020.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Driven and support community-led initiative (eg; women support network) for ownership and sustainability
∎ Support community-led groups (eg; women support network) to plan their activities
∎ Organize weekly meeting with community-led groups (eg; women support network)
∎ Be equipped and inspired the core concept of SASA! Together
∎ Identify community leaders
∎ Conduct introduction of SASA!Together training with community leaders
∎ Conduct start phase training with community leaders
∎ Build leaders' skills in providing referral and basic responses
∎ Organize monthly-meeting with community leaders to share, practise, plan and cerebrate
∎ Create a private electronic group and communicate through electronic check-in
∎ Plan and conduct in-person visits and drop-ins
∎ Organize brief complementary training session
∎ Sample activities, schedule, and complete Community Change Trackers
∎ Schedule and conduct L&A feedback sessions with community leaders every quarterly or every 6 months
∎ Attend any public activities that leaders are professionally involved in
∎ Organize leaders 'participation in phase collaboration meeting
∎ Organize leaders 'participation in SASA! Together community launch
∎ Arrange awareness raising campaign and event activities as needed
∎ Report to Community Outreach Officer weekly
∎ Maintain good coordination/ collaboration with other RI staffs, partner and other stakeholder
∎ Ensure recognized international best practices and Relief International policies are applied in the work with women, girls and vulnerable persons
∎ Any other responsibilities as requested by supervisor

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ Experience working with NGO in Cox's bazar is preferable
∎ Demonstrate knowledge of community-led mechanism
∎ Experience in community mobilization in refugee camps
∎ Demonstrate faith and belief activism, good social changes, holistic engagement and community-led mechanism for ownership and sustainability
∎ Experience and skill work with community member
∎ Demonstrate facilitation skills
∎ Good communication skill
∎ Good knowledge of local context, strongly preferred
∎ Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and support unexpected task.
∎ Enthusiasm to learn
∎ Optimistic and friendly
∎ Flexibility

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Salary Review: Yearly
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one basic salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly basic salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary.

Application Deadline: December 19, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: House: 451 , Road: 8 West, DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka-1206; Head Quarter: 5455 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1280 Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development