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| Social Mobilizer | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Herat, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-03-28 | Close Date | 2022-04-02 |
| Vacancy No | CTG-UNICEF-SM 3/27/2022 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 2 | Contract Duration | 3 Months |
| Education | Bachelor in social and behavioural science, Public health, sociology, anthropology | Experience | 2 Years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per Organization Salary Scale |
About Company
About CTG-UNICEF: CTG is an award-winning private sector company that enables humanitarian and development projects in conflict zones. As a people solutions business, we recruit, deploy and manage the right people with the right skills to implement projects in the world’s toughest regions. In addition to the deteriorating humanitarian situation/ developmental that has left more than 24.4 million people including 12.9 million children in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, the country is currently facing public health epidemics including cholera, polio, COVID-19, measles, and dengue, SAM (Severe acute malnutrition), etc. UNICEF and its partners are working alongside the government to respond effectively to these multiple emergencies to alleviate the situation of children. According to the latest perception study, findings show that risk perception and handwashing habits are low among ordinary people. Handwashing practices rates remain low between children, the elderly, and women. Also, diseases outbreaks such as COVID-19, Acute Watery Diarrhoea-AWD, and measles are common phenomena in Afghanistan. It was also observed that people do not follow social distancing and other precautionary COVID-19 protocols and measures. There have been challenges for the rural communities to access quality lifesaving and information and messages. Hence, it is contributing to low demand and intake of key lifesaving services including on Polio and COVID-19. It seems that lack of knowledge and willingness about the critical time to hand washing. There has been a predominant norm and strong belief that handwashing with soap is not necessary based on traditional practices. UNICEF is looking for motivated and qualified social and community mobilization agents able to work in remote areas the scope of the social mobilizer covers strengthening community engagement and social and behaviour change interventions to generate demand for services and promote key behaviours during both development and emergency periods. The nutrition situation remained dire in Afghanistan. In September and October of 2021, nearly 10 million people in Afghanistan experienced high levels of acute food insecurity (International Food Security Phase Classification IPC phase 3 or above), an almost 30 percent increase from the same season last year (14.5 million people). This was mainly driven by drought, the collapse of public sector services, severe economic crisis, and increased food prices, with a direct impact on the nutrition situation of women and children. Rates of acute malnutrition among children and women remain above the emergency threshold in large parts of the country. The drought declared by the former Government of Afghanistan in June 2021 and intensifying conflict up to August 2021 have driven the need for lifesaving health and nutrition services, especially for children aged under-five and Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLWs). In 2022, 4.7 million people are projected to be in need of humanitarian nutrition treatment services, including 1.1 million children under five with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM). A recent Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) screening conducted by UNICEF in 26 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) settlements in 14 provinces in November 2021 demonstrates a critical level of acute malnutrition with up to 42 percent of children aged 6-59 months requiring immediate assistance. The efforts will continue prioritizing life-saving treatment of severe acute malnutrition while, at the same time putting more emphasis on prevention and promotion efforts to reduce the burden of undernutrition on children and their families. This will consist of expanding on services that protect and promote appropriate MIYCF practices, especially complementary feeding for the toddlers, investing in social behavior change communication, providing specialized nutritious food, strengthening community outreach support, and further widening the response with services addressing the underlying causes of malnutrition. Therefore, in order to address the challenges and concerns of affected communities and various service providers including the provincial level De facto authority and humanitarian communities, UNICEF is looking for motivated and qualified social and community mobilization agents able to work in remote areas The scope of the social mobilizer covers strengthening community engagement and social and behaviour change interventions to generate demand for services and promote key behaviours during both development and emergency periods. Besides they are needed to promote key behaviours and sustain them for a longer period with contextualized, tailor-made, and language-appropriate messages and information.
Job Description
Under the supervision of the SBC officer, the social mobilizers will accomplish the following tasks:
- Capacity building of community structures and other frontline workers:
Conduct orientation or training sessions for actors on key SBC and AAP packages.
- Community engagement and social mobilization
- Conducting and facilitating follow-up meetings with community influential people and networks within the communities.
- Conduct and facilitate community engagement sessions with households and communities on life-saving behaviours as well as healthy and protective behaviours related to health, nutrition, WASH, education, and child protection.
- Tracking and collecting and sharing the rumors from the community
- Conduct/facilitate the AAP interventions and social listening activities:
- Provide information about availability and utilization of services to communities
- Inform communities about the available mechanisms and channels to provide feedback on available services
- Engage community structures/ key influencers and communities in collecting/responding to community feedback.
- Co-facilitate to conduct mass campaigns
- Raising awareness and mobilize and engaging community structures and communities in communication activities during diseases outbreak, health emergencies, and national/international campaigns
- Reporting and documentation of interventions
- Prepare activity report according to the established format and submit it to his/her supervisor.
- Identify the best success stories of SBC interventions, collect testimonies from beneficiaries and submit them to the supervisor for further documentation.
- Monitoring of interventions and coordination
- Monitor and supervise the SBC interventions and ensure the implementation of the activities base on the plan SBC and
- Follow up on the distribution of relevant supplies to households.
- Ensure local coordination and collaboration with key actors (s) such as the de-facto authority, CSOs, and others
Deliverable(s)
- Community Structures are trained on key SBC and AAP packages.
Follow-up meetings with community influential people and networks within the communities are facilitated.
Indicator: # of follow up meetings with community influential people and networks within the communities facilitated
- Community engagement sessions with households on life-saving behaviours as well as healthy and protective behaviours related to health, nutrition, WASH, education, and child protection conducted.
Indicator: # of community engagement sessions conducted with households on life-saving behaviours as well as healthy and protective behaviours
- Rumors from the communities are tracked and promptly shared for action.
Indicator: # of rumors from the communities tracked and promptly shared for action
- Up to date information provided to the communities on the availability/utilization of services
Communities have adequate information on the available mechanisms and channels to provide feedback on available services
Indicator: # of people informed on the available mechanisms, # of complaints, feedback, and queries collected and shared
- Community awareness-raising activities implemented during disease outbreaks
Indicator: # of community structures oriented and mobilized
Indicator: # of people reached with campaign key messages
- Activity progress reports are prepared and submitted periodically
Best success stories and testimonies from the beneficiaries are documented and shared with the supervisors
Indicators: # of success stories and testimonies from the beneficiaries documented and submitted
- Implementation of SBC activities is routinely monitored and monitoring reports with key findings and actions are submitted promptly
Indicators: # of monitoring visits conducted, and reports provided
Job Requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields is required: social and behavioural science, Public health, sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, communication, public relations, or another relevant technical field 2years of experience
- Baccalaureate degree with at least 3 years of experience working in the areas of implementing interventions of social mobilization, community engagement and outreach, communication, interpersonal communication, social networking, group management, and facilitating adult training sessions and group management.
Experience working in a humanitarian project is an asset
Language Requirements:
Ability to read, write and speak local languages and English well
Skills:
Skills in documenting activities (writing short articles, activity reports, taking pictures...).
Proven ability to manage multiple tasks in a result-oriented manner under demanding working conditions, often with short deadlines.
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