Community Mobilization Assistant at Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi)

Contract Type: 4 Month Fixed Terms

Project Summary
The UNFPA Integrated Reproductive Health & Mentoring activity is a 6-month intervention implemented by FHI 360 and Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi) in Borno and Benue states. The overall goal of the activity is to meet the most urgent reproductive health (RH) and mentoring needs of 285,000 conflict affected underserved adolescents, youth and women through gender sensitive, rights-based approaches within host and reclaimed communities and IDP camps in north-east (Borno) and north central Nigeria (Benue).

Responsibilities

• Community Mobilization Assistant Under the direction of the Community Mobilization Coordinator, will support in ensuring a close working relationship between IDPs, host communities and relevant government stakeholders as well at implementing partners to achieve desired objectives.
• S/he will be responsible for ensuring seamless community entry to internally displaced persons camps, with gatekeepers in host communities, health care workers, local emergency and humanitarian response stakeholders, religious leaders, adolescent girls, young women and their caregivers to ensure project gains sustainable support.

Minimum Recruitment Standards

• Diploma in Sociology, Social Work or Community Development with at least 5 years work experience especially in OVC and girls training/HIV/AIDS and gender issues;
• 1 year experience in community mobilization
• Preferred work experience in conflict affected states in Nigeria;
• Fluency in English, strong writing and presentation skills. Local language skills will be an added advantage;
• Strong communication (particularly community entry skills) to collaborate with community leaders, state governments and local NGOs;
• Sensitivity to socio-cultural context in communities;
• Willingness to travel up to 60% of the time