Job Description

Position:                    CCCM Community Mobilizer

Department:               Project Implementation

Direct Hierarchy:      Senior CCCM Project Officer

Location:                    Burao-Somaliland Region

Starting date:             09/09/2024

Background on ACTED

ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context.

Acted is committed to immediate humanitarian relief to support those in urgent need and protect people’s dignity while co-creating longer-term opportunities for sustainable growth and fulfilling people’s potential. Acted endeavors to respond to humanitarian crises and build resilience; promote inclusive and sustainable growth; co-construct effective governance; and support the building of civil society worldwide by investing in people and their potential.

ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the CCCM Community Mobilizer position in Burao-Somaliland.

Position Profile:

This position falls under the direct management of Senior CCCM project officer. The CCCM Mobilizer will play an integral part of the camp management team of ensuring that all inhabitants of the camp are living in a safe, secured and dignified life. This will require constant interaction with the camp community, coordination, monitoring and understanding the protection risks and challenges faced in the camp.

The CCCM Mobilizer will assist the CCCM Project Assistant and CCCM IM Officer on information management activities such as camp committee creation, surveys and assessments, assisting in data collection, leading outreach campaigns.

The CCCM Community Mobilizer is the primarily responsible for community mobilization and support to community governance activities, under direct supervision of the CCCM Senior Officer.

This involves implementing strategies such as information campaigns, setting up complaint mechanisms, ensuring the inclusion of vulnerable groups, and building the capacity of the Camp Committee Members in community governance and mobilization. These efforts aim to empower the committee members to effectively engage with the camp population, advocate for their needs, and influence the delivery of humanitarian aid.

The CCCM Community Mobilizer will be based in Burao-Somaliland, where Acted operates with the full project team in coordination with the area-based office in Hargeisa.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Community Mobilizer Assistant is primarily responsible for community mobilization, communication with communities and support in the community governance activities under direct supervision of the CCCM Snr Officer and indirect supervision of the CCCM PC. This includes but it is not limited:
• to conduct information campaigns
• implement complaints and feedback mechanism in the site,
• ensure that vulnerable groups and people with specific needs are represented and participate in CCCM activities and
• build capacity of the Camp Committee Members in community governance and community mobilization, to ensure that they can effectively participate to the camp life, passing information to the camp population, advocate for the needs of their own community and influence humanitarian assistance delivery.
• Create, follow-up, strengthen and monitor Camp Committees (including management committee) and provide TORs/Forms and tools at site level ensuring transparency, participation, inclusion and agreement of all the stakeholders.
• Strengthening daily the coordination and relationship-building with community leadership groups and community members on a formal and informal basis
• Conducting regular meetings with committee members and ensuring community participation in coordination meetings through community mobilization activities.
• Monitoring of service provision by partners at site level in close cooperation with the communities, partners and stakeholders.
• Timely reporting any gaps and/or duplication in service delivery and community needs emerges during daily activities.
• Timely reporting of any risk of evictions identified during daily activities to the line manager
• Cooperating in data collection for service delivery or other purposes as needed.
• Support in training the camp committees, partner agencies and site team on CCCM and CCCM related topics, as requested by the line manager with a strong focus on enhancing capacity of camp committees.
• Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities
• Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, casual labours)
• Supporting and promoting participation of women, youth, people with specific needs and marginalized groups in camp governance mechanisms and CCCM Activities
• Referring to and following up with protection partners on identification and addressing of cases of vulnerability within the camp.

Experiences and Qualifications

• Completion of university degree in humanities, social studies, or another relevant degree
• Minimum one years of experience in international and/or local NGO; ideally involved in the direct implementation of field level humanitarian assistance to refugees or IDPs.
• Experience in community services, women empowerment, youth activities, protection, distribution or registration.
• Extensive knowledge of Somaliland displacement context.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and team-playing skills.
• Highly flexible, with the ability to use initiative.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and values.
• Understanding of gender, protection and human rights.
• Commitment to promoting gender equality.
• Proficiency in English and local language, both oral and written.
• Experience in working with national partners, local/government authorities, and UN organizations.
• Experience, including leading/supervising subordinate staff, organizing activities and report writing.
• Experience in training and capacity-building of staff.
• Experience in CCCM, including Introduction to CCCM Training.
• Preferable experience operating in a refugee/IDP camp environment.
• Knowledge of logistics and procurement processes.

Skills Required

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