Position: CCCM PROJECT ASSISTANT
Department: PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION UNIT
Direct Hierarchy: CCCM OFFICER
Location: GAROWE, PUNTLAND
Duration: 7 Months
Starting date: Jan 2025
Background on ACTED
Created in 1993, ACTED is an international non-governmental organization pursuing a dual mandate of emergency response and development interventions in 40 of some of the world’s most vulnerable countries affected by conflicts, disasters, or socio-economic hardship. With a team of 7,000 national staff and 400 international staff, ACTED implements 500 projects a year to support more than 20 million beneficiaries, notably in hard-to-reach areas.
ACTED goes to the last mile through programs and approaches that look beyond the immediate emergency towards opportunities for longer term livelihood reconstruction and sustainable development. Guided by the motto “Think Local, Act Global” and its 3Zero –Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, and Zero Poverty – strategy, ACTED puts local territories at the centre and provides a tailored support to local needs.
ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced, and committed team player to fill the CCCM PROJECT ASSISTANT in GAROWE, PUNTLAND.
Position Profile:
The CCCM Assistant supports the CCCM Officer in the implementation of the community mobilization activities in the ACTED-managed sites. This includes but is not limited to the development/implementation/follow-up of the establishment/support to camp governance structures. The CCCM Assistant will liaise with, and support IDP leaders, organize and participate in committee meeting, coordinate, and liaise with other actors, organize and conduct information and awareness session in the sites, conduct focus group discussions and support the CCCM Officer in his/her duties.
The CCCM Assistant also provides support in the supervision of CCCM outreach workers in the implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
o The CCCM Assistant is primarily responsible for community mobilization, Communication with Communities and support to community governance activities under direct supervision of the CCCM Officer and IM Officer
o 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 the their own community and influence humanitarian assistance delivery.
o 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.
o Strengthening daily the coordination and relationship-building with community leadership groups and community members on a formal and informal basis
o Conducting regular meetings with committee members and ensuring community participation in coordination meetings through community mobilization activities.
o Monitoring of service provision by partners at site level in close cooperation with the communities, partners and stakeholders.
o Timely reporting any gaps and/or duplication in service delivery and communities needs emerged during daily activities.
o Timely reporting any risk of evictions identified daily activities to the line manager
o Cooperating in data collection for service delivery or other purposes as needed.
o Support training 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.
o Considering gender, protection, and GBV concerns in all aspects of activities
o Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, casual labours)
o Supporting and promoting participation of women, youth, people with specific needs and marginalized groups in camp governance mechanisms and CCCM Activities
o Referring to and following up with protection partners on identification and addressing of cases of vulnerability within the camp.
Qualifications/Skills Required:
• Completion of university degree in humanities, social studies, or another relevant degree
• Minimum one year 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.
• Knowledge to work with Microsoft ensuite
• Extensive knowledge of Somalia 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.
Qualified national persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single document i.e. with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts to somalia.jobs@acted.org and received on or before 5.00PM on 24th December, 2024 with the subject line
“CCCM PROJECT ASSISTANT – GAROWE, PUNTLAND”
Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.
ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outline the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer however females, PLWD and individuals from marginalized community, are strongly encouraged to apply .
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