Community Monitor (4 Positions), Baidoa, Wajid, Burhakaba, Mogadishu, Somalia

Term of Reference for Community Monitor

Duty stations: Mogadishu/Baidoa/Wajid and Burhakaba (Somalia);

Position: Community Monitor 4 Positions (1. Baidoa, 2. Wajid, 3. Burhakaba & 4. Mogadishu)

Reporting lines: Reports to the ANPPCANSOM Monitoring Support Specialist/SMLP Team Leader

Duration: 4 months

1. Background

ANPPCANSOM is Women and Child oriented local NGO that works in the Humanitarian and Development Sector and operates as a non-governmental, not-for-profit and non-partisan national institution. ANPPCANSOM Somalia is legal entity connected to the ANPPCAN Regional Office as one of the 28 ANPPCANS Chapters across the continent with principles policy directions aimed at effectively realizing its vision, mission and core values. The organization was founded by a team of Somali intellectuals who were concerned with the living condition of children and women in Somalia whose protective environment has been weakened more two decades of conflict resulting in the collapse of institutions at all levels. Hence, they decided to speak for and stand to support underprivileged groups. The institution is registered in Somalia (2008) as LNGO and has operational mandate in the country.

1. Duties and Responsibilities

• Community Monitor is responsible to conduct Site Visits as assigned in 10 distinct and adjacent sites (such as IDP camps and adjacent rural villages). The assigned communities will either be areas with a high concentration of BHA activities, or an area that is perpetually inaccessible due to insecurity.
• The community monitor conducts data quality reviews with special attention to data completeness, data accuracy, data integrity, validity, and timeliness, and submits the Community Monitoring Site Visit data for 10 sites to ANPPCANSOM team leader by the 20th of each month so that ANPPCANSOM TPM manager can review and share the report by 28th of each month.
• Community Monitor, who already lives in the assigned community, is expected to provide ongoing context monitoring including capturing contextual photographic information when photographs are determined to be safe.
• The community monitoring collects Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of each of the 10 sites as well as other points of interest (such as major infrastructure or IP offices) when use of GPS is determined to be safe.
• The Subcontractor collects data using one Community Observation Tool for each of the 10 assigned sites per month.
• The community monitor will carry out mapping of humanitarian aid organizations, actors, and facilities. The community Monitor will conduct Local market/supermarket scans for donor-funded food and nutrition commodities.
• The Community Monitor is expected to record highlights from local media on issues related to humanitarian assistance, including context monitoring on market conditions, natural disasters/disease outbreaks, conflict/insecurity, political /administrative changes, and migration in and out of the communities/camps.
• The Community Monitor is responsible for recording highlights of community meetings, when attendance is possible, and/or recording the content of publicly posted notifications from the IPs or community leaders as they relate to beneficiary selection and aid coordination/announcements.
• The Community Monitor will be responsible to record observations of live activities including distributions, service delivery, training, community awareness events, etc., when security and safety conditions allow.
• The Community Monitor will conduct 360-degree video tours of each site, when security and safety conditions allow.
• The Community Monitor will record highlights of informal one-on-one conversations (on select guiding topics described in the tool) with community members (particularly members of minority clans, people with disabilities, pregnant and lactating women, families with children under five) community leaders, local officials, and IP/IP local partner staff. These conversations will be completed only when security and safety conditions allow.
• The Community Monitor will also conduct beneficiary survey (BSs) for at least three beneficiaries for the site monthly. The Monitor will aim to survey those same three beneficiaries each of the months of CM-SVs, to assess changes over time to the respondents’ conditions and perceptions.
• University degree in public health, social sciences, statistics, planning development, and/or related field is required. Degree in monitoring and evaluation or research will be an added advantage
• A minimum of 2 + years’ experience in field work and data management.
• Ability to work in teams, openness to respond positively to different points of view
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrate computer skills
• Experience and knowledge on mobile data collection ODK
• Willing to travel on different region across Somalia and can speak fluent Somali language both MAAY and MAXAATIRI.
• Experience in undertaking both qualitative and qualitative data
• The enumerators will provide services when there is need.

1. Safeguarding

We believe in a country where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we do everything we can to keep children safe. In the light of this, a range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with ANPPCANSOM’s Adult and Child Safeguarding Policy. We will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Adult and Child Safeguarding Policy and the Code of Conduct By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

How to apply

Deadline for this post will be December 14, 2023. Any application submitted later than given time will not be considered valid

How to apply

Please send your application Cover letter and CV to hr@anppcansom.so. Please indicate Community Monitor as the email subject. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

ANPPCANSOM is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all.