| Job Title: | Community Mobilization Assistant ? BPRM at at Save the Children Nigeria |
| Employment Type: | Volunteer |
| Work Format: | On-site |
| Closing Date: | 2000-01-01 |
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Company: Location: Nigeria
State: Job type: Full-Time Job category: Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children?s lives. We fight for their rights.
We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.
We Are Recruiting To Fill The
Position Below Job Title: Community Mobilization Assistant ?
BPRM Ref No: 220002ZN Location: Ogoja, Cross River Employment Type: Contract Contract Lenght: 6 months Team / Programme: BPRM Grade: 5 Reports to: BPRM Project Manager Staff reporting to this post: None Budget Responsibilities: None 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
Support the BPRM project team to ensure commitment and involvement of local authorities and community members in the programme; and support community mobilization to ensure participation, sustainability of the refugee response programme as well as that the voices of community members, including women and children are heard.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly. Key Areas of Accountability Strategy Development Identify policy and practice change, based on Save the Children?s experience that would promote and protect the rights of children.
Support in formulating key advocacy messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through project implementation on Child Protection, Education, WASH, et al
Ensure that voices of children form the basis of Save the Children?s advocacy strategy.
Acquire information and understanding of social policy and adapt strategies as necessary.
Ensure Save the Children visibility is seen in areas of implementation
Actively participate in all Save the Children, partners and CSO Coalition driven activities in the state
Establish as well as sustain existing synergy among community groups and coalitions
Engage with the state and local governments in policies review when needed
Facilitate meetings of the coalition groups
Prepare monthly reports of activities carried out Influencing Develop good knowledge of local and national government structures, parliamentary and political processes and key decision-making structures and how to influence them.
Initiate and support lobbying, communications and other activities to inform and persuade policy makers, including donors and politicians, of the value of Save the Children?s policy recommendations.
Support in building systems for research, analysis and documentation that underpin evidence-based advocacy and influencing at state and national levels.
Produce reports, briefing papers and presentations for internal and external audiences, as directed. Collaboration & Representation Develop and sustain strategic relationships with other agencies engaged in advocacy and policy work.
Support in maintaining a network of external contacts with key individuals in the government, NGO sector, civil society and the media.
Support in facilitating capacity building of staff from Save the Children and partner agencies in advocacy and communications.
As a spokesperson for Save the Children to a variety of external audiences including policy makers and the media, as directed.
Programme Development
Provide technical support on voice and community mobilization to State programme team
Develop a community mobilization strategy in collaboration with the team and ensure implementation
Train and mentor community volunteers ? Community support In collaboration with the rest of the Programme team, prepare and facilitate training sessions. 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 Ambition sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsi
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Region: | Nigeria Kaduna |
| City: | Nigeria Kaduna |
| Address: | Kafanchan, Nigeria |

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