Action Against Hunger is recruiting to fill the position below:

POSITION : Community Mobilization Officer - 3 slots

Responsibilities

• Implement community based program focusing on key project objectives and ensuring all modalities that lead to project sustainability are well developed and validated.
• Mobilize the community for nutrition activities (detection of case, referral, follow-up).  Active screening in phase one of the project and implementing passive screening in the second phase of the project.
• Building community mobilization network system within communities and follow-up implementation of activities.
• Develop the project exit strategy procedure and communicate its content to all the stake holders.
• Promote good community relationship to facilitate project acceptability and community participation in relevant activities.
• Follow up with the local traditional leaders and community volunteers to ensure compliance with the set action plans and rules for the community work.
• Design a work plan and approaches towards rebuilding the community assets in a bid to promote early recovery.
• Regular internal and external coordination for the program at LGA level and at state level when required and also track, report and map all activities under community mobilization.
• Assist in the supervision and monitoring of the implementation of home visits of beneficiaries by community actors for follow-up of non-respondents, defaulters and potential defaulters.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Health Information/Health Education and other related qualifications with at least 2 years experience within the humanitarian sector.
• Commitment to Action Against Hunger mission, values and policy.
• Be resident of community area (LGA) of work, networks within the community.
• Previous NGO experience managing mobilization in different interventions (i.e.  FSL, cash transfers, wash, Nutrition).
• Experience in food security and livelihood programming and community mobilization.
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible, supervise and coach community volunteers.
• Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies
• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word).
• Ability to speak English and Hausa.