Community Engagement and Participation (CEP) Social Mobilizers

The Youth’s Assembly for Afghanistan Rehabilitation (YAAR) is a non-governmental, non-political, and not-for-profit organization established in 1994 to support the rehabilitation and development of Afghanistan. YAAR works across multiple sectors including protection, WASH, health, education, women’s empowerment, and emergency response.

Purpose:

Under direct management and technical supervision of CEP Officers and CEP Technical Supervisor. The Social Mobilizers will be assigned to provide support on data collection, evidence generation, social mobilization and community engagement in programme interventions, establishing and maintaining community feedback mechanism and at community and CEFCs.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collect data and programmatic information on Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education and Child Protection programs ongoing activities at district level for CEP and AAP programme planning and decision making.
• Conduct mapping of district level community structures of (CHWs, SMSs, Religious Scholar/TAAVON, Youths, GMGs/FHAG, FGs/Community Elders, CPAN etc.) for integrated CEP and AAP programme planning and implementation.
• Reach communities with programmatic messages related to Health, Nutrition and WASH key behaviours/practices.
• Engage community structures and people (men, women, boys and girls) through integrated CEP sessions at households and community level to practice and promote WASH, Nutrition and Health behaviours.
• Ensure local coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders and actors at districts, community and health facilities level.
• Provide support to the implementation and monitoring of NIDs/Immunization, Nutrition and WASH programme campaigns at district and community level. 
• Collect, register and timely follow-up for closure of (Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection and Emergency Response) community feedback through integrated CEP sessions and Community Engagement and Feedback Center.
• Engage community structures and key influencers in collecting/responding to community feedback.
• Identify human-interest stories of CEP interventions, provide support to the distribution of relevant supplies IEC and BCC materials and supplies.
• Conduct frequent programme field visits to project sites to ensure smooth implementation of the CEP/AAP activities based on annual workplan.

Required Education Level:

• University degree in one of the following fields is required:

Social Science, Public Administration, Public Health, Sociology, Communication, International Relations, Education or another relevant technical field.

Minimum professional work experience required:

• University degree with at least 2 years of professional work experience.

Language Requirements:

• Ability to read, write and speak in Dari, Pashto and English.

Required Skills:

• Knowledge of Computer Literacy/Microsoft Office 365/Office Programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other software programs)
• Ability to speak publicly, knowledge and skills of documenting activities (writing short articles/programmatic success stories and project activity reports).

Proven ability to manage multiple tasks in a result-oriented manner under demanding working conditions, often with short deadlines.

Interested candidates are requested to submit their updated CV and Cover Letter (combined into a single PDF file) via email to recruitment@yaar.af.

Please clearly mention the Position Title and Vacancy Number in the email subject line as: (Community Engagement and Participation (YAAR-GZN/(CEP) Social Mobilizers -130) Otherwise, your application will not be considered.