Job Description

TITLE: Community Mobilizers TEAM/PROGRAMME: Education/ EFASS LOCATION: Magwi GRADE 5 CONTRACT LENGTH: 2 years

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

Under the supervision of Education officer and technical support from the Education Coordinator, the community mobilizer works closely with the project team to organise community entry engaments and meeting, through engaging with relevant gatekeepers and leaders to ensure that community members and stakeholders have a clear understanding of the project goals and objectives and gain acceptance and support from them. The post holder will build relationships between Save the Children and the community. He/she will be responsible to monitor Child Protection interventions including psychosocial support activities, and support the establishment of Community mobilization teams and community based Child Protection Mechanisms, awareness raising activities. The community mobilizer will closely engage community members to actively participate and embrace MYRP program activities including mobilising parenrs and guardians to send their children to school, engage in community dialogues and in line wth the Community Action Cyle work with community mobilisation teams to identify priority issues/ barriers to access to education and child protection and safeguarding issues that need to be addressed through steering the community to develop community action plans, collectively work together to implement the action plans, monitor and evaluate the implementation of thea action plan.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, community mobilzers will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Education Officer

Staff reporting to this post:

Direct: None

Indirect : None

Budget Responsibilities: TBD

Role Dimensions The Community Mobilser technical and administrative support on the to day basis from the Education officer. He/she will have a collaborative relationship with the community leaders in matters related to mobilising of community members to address education barriers, protection issues and identify out of school children and children with disabilities who need to be supported to access education. He/she will participate in back to school/ learning campaigns and key advocacy. The caseworker also works with the Community mobilizers in relation to identification and referral of cases identified from the community.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

• Responsible for mobilizing the communities to play an effective role in protecting the rights of the children
• Liaise with community leaders and parents to introduce program activities and encourage community involvement in program implementation and monitoring.
• Establish and strengthen Community engagement including working towards a relationship that fosters acceptance, ownership that is required for longer term sustainability of the program interventions.
• In line wth the Community Action Cycle, closely engage and guide community mobilisation teams in planning, implementing and evaluation of implementation of key community action plans, i.e., conducting / attending meetings and recording minutes of the meetings and follow up on action plans.
• Ensure Community Based Child Protection Networks (CBCPN) are supported to conduct community-based awareness raising activities on CP issues.
• Support CBCPN members to promote the inclusion of marginalized and minority groups and ensure meaningful child participation in activities.
• Establish and strengthen Child and Youth clubs and provide on-going mentoring and support.
• Support in establishing activities in CFS or Community Centres, and provide ongoing monitoring, support and capacity building to facilitators.
• Responsible to ensure that all community-based networks are coordinating with each other, as well as with CFSs, Child and Youth clubs and other committees.
• Support in conducting needs assessment in the target and surrounding communities, especially the children, with an aim to implement programme activities.
• Responsible to monitor, identify and refer child protection issues as per the agreed interagency protocols and procedures.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• University degree preferably in Social work or other relevant social sciences (OR Diploma in these fields if person has worked in a similar position and has the required skills and experience)

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Minimmum of 3 years sectoral (child protection) experience in a similar position
• Experience working and communicating with Children
• Excellent technical understanding of child protection and community based approaches
• Excellent technical understanding of child protection (especially case management) and community based approaches
• Excellent understanding of the case management including FTR proces
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to prioritize tasks
• Able to lead a team to acheieve results
• Flexibility and ability to work independently and in a team
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Able to operate in extremely harsh living and working environment
• Gender awareness and sensitivity
• Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
• Awareness of using positive discipline; an officer should never shout at, humiliate or hit children

Desireable

• South Sudanese National
• Previous NGO experience, including an understanding of the neutral status of an international NGO
• Good understanding of community politics and traditional networks in Abyei and ability to speak local languages in Abyei ( Arabic and Dinka).
• Computer skills
• Data Management skills

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Save the children India employ approximately 300 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.