Social Mobilizer

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• One pair of community mobilizers/facilitators will be responsible for beneficiary households depending upon the geographical location of the households and the villages.
• Collect necessary baseline information about the target community and area.
• Motivate and encourage community committees, community activists, and influential to advocate and promote the project in their community and ensure their participation.
• Conduct meetings/sessions in the community regularly.
• Detailed sharing of the work plan with the beneficiaries and identification of their roles regarding the package plan for the individual households and community level.
• Mobilize and build the capacity of community committees.
• Obtain feedback, suggestions, and grievances from the target communities related to the project activities and forward to project management for necessary actions.
• Assess and identify priority points in the targeted areas in liaison with the community committee members for repair, maintenance, and equipping of small-scale infrastructure through different schemes. 
• Sensitize communities on their role in the operation and maintenance of various communal schemes. 
• Keep a close liaison with the beneficiary households, by visiting/meeting them once a week.
• Develop and maintain the necessary documentation and record of all project outreach activities.
• Maintain and update all records at the office level.
• Develop and submit daily activity reports, and monitoring reports in a given format.
• Make continuous follow-ups on the activities with the beneficiaries and inform the project management accordingly.

• Participate in capacity building trainings, workshops and seminars.

• Mobilize communities in line with project objectives, conduct surveys, and need assessments at the target communities to identify eligible project livestock owner groups.
• Instruct men/women on personal and environmental hygiene, housing, water sanitation, and dairy processing issues.
• Conduct regular monitoring of livestock production, status stables, and livestock treatment process.
• Collect necessary data and information to keep track of the change in attitudes and practices of target livestock owner groups
• Maintain good relations with the communities, area representatives, and target beneficiaries.
• Conduct regular Meetings with target livestock owner groups and ensure a proper coordination network is established.
• Assist to prepare, quarterly and monthly plans for effective execution of the project activities as stipulated in the project document.
• Develop and submit accurate monthly work plans and reports to the project Manager The reports should include technical social and impact information.
• Assist Project Manager in developing high-quality donor reports in the agriculture-related activities that is contributing to the project donor reports as required.
• Ensure government participation in vital social events such as training, exposure visits, workshops, etc, as appropriate
• Liaise with relevant government departments and keep updating them on the project progress and achievements regularly.
• Establish livestock owner groups in each target community.
• Any other task to be assigned by the project manager /senior management

Familiarity with the cultural, social, and economic context of Afghanistan, particularly in the target provinces.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse community members, including women and girls.

Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings, conduct trainings, and mobilize communities towards collective action.

Proficiency in local languages (Pashto, Dari) is required; knowledge of English is an advantage.

Ability and willingness to travel within the target provinces for community engagement and project-related activities.

Bachelor degree in veterinary

Four years of experience with master and 2 years of experience with bachelor degree in related field

Demonstrated ability to work with local authorities and government agencies, local governance structures, cooperatives and female farmers.

Enthusiasm and commitment to improve others’ livelihoods opportunities, and engage with rural communities, including women

Good report writing skills in English

Good computer skills

Well familiarity in English and local languages 

Good coordination and communication skills

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