Community Mobilizers (4 Position) – Jowhar, Somalia

POLISH HUMANITARIAN ACTION IS LOOKING FOR COMMUNITY MOBILIZERS

General information:

• Organization: Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH).
• Position: Community Mobilizers (4 Position)
• Location: Jowhar
• Starting date:
• Reports to Project Assistant
• Contract duration: 8 Months
• Application Deadline: 18th April 2023

About PAH:

Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to make the world a better place. For over 20 years, we have been providing relief in big and small emergencies worldwide alongside running long-term missions in several countries in crisis.

Our interventions – of both humanitarian and development character– have been carried out in 44 countries so far. Our focus is on ensuring sustainable and stable development of regions suffering the consequences of war and/or natural disasters. We possess long-standing expertise in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), but also implement projects in Nutrition. For more information, please refer to www.pah.org.pl.

PAH Mission in Somalia:

PAH has been present in Somalia since 2011. With WASH, FSL, and Nutrition programs PAH supported people from the most vulnerable communities in different regions in Somalia. Our primary focus is to provide safe drinking water through the rehabilitation of water infrastructure, the construction of water distribution systems, and the construction of rainwater reservoirs. In our work, we also focus on other WASH components such as the improvement of sanitary conditions, and hygiene promotion to make our WASH interventions fully comprehensive. In FSL, we implement an unconditional Cash transfer

Our current donors are ECHO, GFFO, SHF, and UNICEF. PAH, programs target the most vulnerable IDPs, hosts, and rural communities as well as institutions in Banadir, Lower Shebelle, Middle Shebelle, and Galmudug Region.

PAH, in Somalia, is looking for Community Mobilizers who will become part of our operation team. The person will hold the following responsibilities:

• Organizing community meetings, awareness sensitization, and sharing project activities information.
• Leading community discussions and the formation of the committees, training the committees, and providing them with the necessary support for the effective delivery of the project activities.
• Conduct regular community meetings in the project-targeted communities. Ensure the target beneficiaries have received the entitlement and address any concerns with the project officer and other relevant project teams.
• Work with the project officer and other teams in continuous needs assessment, related data collection, and managing surveys process at the community levels.
• Develop weekly updates and monthly reports on community mobilization activities.
• Ability and willingness to travel to project areas at short notice.
• Directly supervise the community volunteers
• Train and give on-site training to all community volunteers.
• Gather complaints, concerns, and data directly from the field and share it with supervisors.
• Fulfil any other task assigned by the supervisor