Community Mobilizer

Founded in 1994, Acted is a non-governmental organization with headquarters in Paris, France. Independent, private and not-for-profit, Acted respects principles of strict neutrality and impartiality in its decisions, and operates according to non-discrimination and transparency principles. Acted endeavours to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; construct effective governance and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential. With a budget of 236 million EUR in 2017, Acted is active in almost 37 countries and implements more than 500 projects a year reaching over 14 million beneficiaries with 300 internal staff and 4,300 national staff worldwide.

In Pakistan, Acted has been active since 1993 and has provided assistance across all provinces to an estimated 6.9 million people. The assistance has included emergency response to meet the immediate and live-saving needs of natural disaster and complex emergency affected households, as well as recovery and development support in the form of education and livelihoods promotion and assistance.

Job Purpose:

The Community Mobilizer, under operational guidance of the Deputy/Project Manager, is responsible for ensuring proper implementation of ACTED’s project in Jacobabad District. The Community Mobilizer oversees field operations and ensures effective and timely completion of activities, delivery of quality outputs and achievement of outcomes with maximum impact for beneficiaries. The Community Mobilizer will work with the project staff in day to day management of all aspects of the project and liaises with relevant internal departments and external partners and project stakeholders.

Duties And Responsibilities:

• CM will support beneficiary selection, preparation of lists, vouchers distribution and follow-up in the target communities and district.
• CM will identify and proactively communicate any issues that might affect the project implementation and engage community support with guidance from the Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager to address the issues.
• CM will support in identification of new home-based businesses/enterprises in target communities.
• CM will lead the necessary orientation, mobilization sessions and training in the field.
• CM will ensure active community support for the project activities and ownership.
• CM will be responsible for collection and dissemination of information between communities, project staff and stakeholders.
• CM will provide facilitation in the community groups’ formation, record keeping, weekly meetings and training/ capacity building of the community group members, if needed.
• Assist PM, DPM to ensure completion of the project in a timely manner and within budgetary limits.
• Prepare field reports on a timely basis.
• Maintain and manage record of all field related documents in hard and soft forms.
• Support PM and project team in the mapping, identification, and selection of the beneficiaries in target districts as per agreed mechanism.
• CM will support data collection, management, and field reporting on a regular basis.
• Work closely with the Project Team members to ensure that all activities are executed in a coordinated and timely manner.

Requirements:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
• Excellent local language (Sindhi) proficiency skills. Good English and Urdu language proficiency skills and familiarity with local customs and traditions will be an added advantage.
• Excellent management, team building, communication & networking skills.
• Must be flexible and adapt changes quickly with the requirements of the changed situation.
• S/he must have the ability to work effectively with colleagues from varied cultures and professional backgrounds.
• Ability to travel for work assignments in targeted union councils.

PSEAH Obligation:

• Acted has zero tolerance approach on PSEAH matters and as an Acted employee It is my utmost duty to ensure full compliance of PSEAH policies in Acted and outside Acted as well. I will not engage in any PSEAH violations and will ensure team working under my supervision will also follow the same protocols. I shall not be involved in any sexual exploitation or abuse. I shall ensure to comply with the highest standards of moral and ethical conduct. Any incident of SEA shall be reported to Acted. Any failure by myside to take preventive measures against sexual exploitation or abuse, or to investigate allegations or take corrective action, shall constitute grounds for termination of the Agreement.

For the purposes hereof, the following definitions shall be used.

• Sexual exploitation means any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes, including, but not limited to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of another.
• Sexual abuse means the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or under unequal or coercive conditions.

Note: “ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries and staff within our programs from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). ACTED has a Code of Conduct and organizational policies, which outline the expected behavior of all staff, consultants and other stakeholders and reminds ACTED’s zero-tolerance approach. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will sign those documents as part of their work contract and is expected to abide by them.” “ACTED is commitment to zero tolerance to all forms of violence against children, beneficiaries and staff. ACTED is equal opportunity employers. Females and minorities are encouraged to apply. Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Final selection will be based on security clearance of the candidate.”

Skills:

• Pro-active, well organized with sound planning, organizational, prioritization and problem-solving skills as well as effective verbal and written communication. 
• Great mobilization skills.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

•  % of milestones completed on time as per the original plan
•  Project completed on time without the need for an NCE
•  Project completed within budget flexibility (not requiring a budget amendment for project lines)
•  % of contractual performance indicators achieved
•  Project records and documents (beneficiary lists, donation certificates, attendance sheets, payment sheets) available for all project activities
•  Positive monitoring and evaluation reports (internal and external).