Position Summary
- The Community Mobilization Assistant will support the Cash Transfer/Community Mobilization Coordinator in planning, coordinating, and implementing community mobilization and cash transfer activities throughout the project duration.
- The position holder will serve as the primary field focal person within the assigned LGA, ensuring effective community engagement, beneficiary sensitization, registration, cash distribution support, complaint management, and post-distribution monitoring while maintaining compliance with donor and organizational standards.
Key Responsibilities
The Community Mobilization Assistant shall be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:
Community Engagement and Stakeholder Coordination:
- Mobilize communities and key stakeholders
- conduct sensitization sessions on MPCA
- Maintain relationships with community leaders, local authorities, and partners
- Promote community participation and ownership throughout the project.
Beneficiary Identification and Data Management:
- Ensure transparent beneficiary selection, registration, verification, and household data collection processes while ensuring data accuracy, quality, confidentiality, and validation of beneficiary lists.
Accountability, Safeguarding, and Protection:
- Promote Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP),
- Manage feedback and complaints mechanisms
- Uphold safeguarding standards (PSEA, Child Protection, and GBV risk mitigation) and ensure inclusion of vulnerable groups.
Field Monitoring, Reporting, and Documentation:
- Oversee post-distribution monitoring, document lessons learned and success stories
- Report incidents and safeguarding concerns,
- Submit timely weekly and monthly reports.
Project Implementation and Compliance Support:
- Support cash transfer activities and beneficiary communication,
- Participate in project planning and review meetings,
- Represent LESGO professionally and ensure compliance with organizational policies, donor requirements, and humanitarian principles.
Other Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with LESGO policies, donor requirements, and humanitarian principles.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the Cash Transfer/Community Mobilization Coordinator or Project Manager.
Qualifications and Experience
- Diploma, National Diploma (ND), Higher National Diploma (HND), or bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Community Development, Public Administration, Development Studies, Sociology, Education, or a related field.
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience in humanitarian or development programming, preferably involving community mobilization, cash and voucher assistance (CVA), livelihoods, food security, or emergency response.
- Previous experience working with NGOs or community-based organizations is highly desirable.
- Experience in beneficiary registration, community engagement, and field data collection is an added advantage.
- Residents of the respective duty LGAs are strongly encouraged to apply.
Required Skills and Competencies:
- Strong community mobilization and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse communities and stakeholders.
- Knowledge of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), PSEA, safeguarding, and humanitarian principles.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with integrity.
- Good report writing and documentation skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and mobile data collection platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK, or CommCare) is an added advantage.
- Ability to work under pressure and travel extensively within the assigned LGA.
- Fluency in English is required; knowledge of Hausa and other local languages spoken in the assigned LGA is highly desirable.
Core Values:
Successful candidates must demonstrate commitment to:
- Integrity and Accountability
- Respect and Inclusion
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Transparency
- Community Participation
- Safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)
- Humanitarian Principles.
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