Job Purpose

The Community Mobilizer/Health Educator works in Mobile Team to maintain close relationship with the communities to facilitate a smooth project implementation. Facilitate awareness on health creation measures and facilitate responses to community and develop contact and professional relationships with community elders, religious leaders and the Community Development Councils. He/She will ensure the smooth running of assigned project activities in the targeted areas and report to the Protection Officer and Project Manager. He/She will represent the organization as an intermediary with the committees.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure that the project activities are clear to the members of the community.
• Mobilize the beneficiaries to participate in the project according to the agreement made with them.
• Identify and train the community shura members, religious leaders’ school teachers and other community influencers on basic concepts.
• Conduct health Awareness sessions in the community with cooperation of community elders and community influencers.
• Propose solutions to the problems encountered.
• Organize workshops and meetings when necessary.
• Monitor the progress of the project at the community level
• Write a weekly activity report

The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily inclusive in size. You may be required to travel to other parts of the country if required.

Organizational Responsibilities

Policy Adherence

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity

Safeguarding

• It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons.