Social Organizer
Position Title: Social Mobilizer
Number of Positions: Four (Two Women and Two Men)
Duty Station: Badin, Sindh
Job Type: Fixed Contract (1 year; extendable subject to performance)
Career level: Field Staff
Required Travel: Frequently to Project locations within Badin
Programme/s: DRR
Reports to: Project Manager
Closing Date: July 27, 2020
Description:
The position holder will working under the direct supervision of the Project Manager to implement the project interventions at field and office level. According to the project need the SMs will work closely with the key stakeholders including communities Organizations and the line departments for facilitation of project activities. This multi-tasking job and the position holder will be required to work with multi-dimensional approach i.e. mobilization, advocacy, awareness raising, networking and coordination at field level.
Under the project, Laar Humanitarian and Development Programme will ensure and committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment throughout the project. LHDP will take every possible step to ensure that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
Major Responsibilities:
Conducting Area Profiling and Identification of Villages/Revenue Villages for Project Interventions
Formation of the Community Organization (COs), Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in the targeted villages as per set criteria developed in the project
Frequent meetings with COs, FFS for planning of new actions under the respective project
Regular field visits and conduct the community meetings frequently in project selected villages
Support the technical team of the project i.e. Agriculture and Livestock Officers in identification of beneficiaries, sites for demonstration plots and conducting trainings and sessions at community level
Community mobilization in consultation with the project staff under the supervision of the Project Manager
Facilitate COs, FFS in maintaining and updating the relevant records as per prescribed tools and templates
Deliver trainings and sessions on drought –resistant agriculture farming, at village and cluster of villages level
Collect data as required by the project as per prescribed formats being issued by Project Manager, time to time.
Facilitate linkages between line departments and formed COs, FFS
Preparation of Periodic Reports (Qualitative and Quantitative)
Preparation of weekly/Monthly Implementation Plan
Qualifications and Experience:
The following requirement for this position
Academic Qualification:
Bachelors (14 years of education) in relevant disciplines like Social Science/ Social Work/ Economics/Agriculture or equal degree with at least two years’ experience
or
Intermediate (12 years of education) with 4 years of relevant experience
Skills and knowledge required:
Good Understanding of Climate Change and DRR
Excellent Mobilization and Sensitizations
Sound knowledge of local issues of small holder farmers.
Experience of FGD, Data Collection, Field Assessments and Survey
Basic Computer Skills, Ms. Office, Internet
Excellent Reporting Skills
Excellent Coordination and Correspondence Skills
Sensitivity and sound knowledge of the Rights based approach
Key Relationships:
Main Internal contacts:
The position holder will primarily work with the Project Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Livestock Officer and Agriculture Officer. The incumbent will secondarily work with the consultation of Logistic, Procurements, Admin and Finance Staff, where and when required and will follow the organization’s functional chart/organogram.
External Contacts:
The position needs to be in close coordination of partner communities at field level and other stakeholder including line departments, media persons and civil society forums/organizations.
Note: Any Application which does not fully address the requirement of the respective position, may be rejected when local candidate will be preferred. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the further process of recruitment.