2 Fresher Community Services Officer Job Vacancies – ALIGHT
Job Title: Community Services Officer (2 Fresher Job Vacancies)
Organisation: ALIGHT (Formerly known as American Refugee Committee)
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
ALIGHT, formerly the American Refugee Committee (ARC), is an international nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance and training to millions of beneficiaries over the last 40 years. In 2011, Alight helped nearly 2.5 million people get essential services to regain their health and take back control of their lives. Alight works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to communities of refugees and internally displaced persons in seven countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, including Iraq, Kosovo, and in the Darfur region of Sudan and is currently providing for emergency relief and recovery in Haiti. Alight provides shelter, clean water and sanitation, health care, skills training, microcredit education, protection to help survivors of war and natural disasters to rebuild their lives with dignity, health care, security and self-sufficiency.
Job Summary: Reporting to the Protection Manager, the Community Services Officer will ensure quality protection outcomes by catalyzing community actions around the PSNs, providing direct support to PSNs, and drawing from synergy with the larger community protection components.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Project development, implementation and reporting
- Under the supervision of the Protection Manager, contribute in drafting concept papers and proposal development
- Identify gaps in terms of protection and community services and generate ideas to address them with strong impact for the beneficiaries.
- Participate in PSN profiling and ongoing risks analysis in order to design adequate responses.
- Ensure quality data collection, analysis and storage in line with the Protection Information Management principles.
- Ensure daily implementation of community sub sector activities as planned.
- Ensure a daily monitoring of protection trend in the settlement.
- Make sure that all community services projects adhere to the standards and or principles of the respective thematic areas as well as ALIGHT guidelines and accountability standards.
- Contribute in preparation of monthly and weekly activity and spending plans.
- Proactively contribute to quality and timely implementation of community sub sector activities as planned.
- Contribute in drafting weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual and other reports.
- Spontaneously draft and share flash reports on major protection incidents and risks.
Coordination and representation
- Develop relationships with a range of key stakeholders, Local Government and other stakeholders on the community services thematic areas at the field level in close liaison with the Protection Team Leader.
- Represent ALIGHT and participate actively in the local Community Services working groups and any other meeting as requested.
- Close co-ordination in project implementation with partners (UN agencies and national/international NGOs), including referrals, community services gap analysis, advocacy.
- Work closely with the other program components to maximize program output and impact.
Staff development and management
- Provide technical and programmatic leadership for the Community Services Assistants, Community Services Case Workers and community based structures within the operational area.
- Develop staff performance measurement and targets and appraise them based on the set targets.
- Conduct daily field visits to support Community Service Assistant – mentoring – through technical back stopping and to train duty bearers.
- Uphold ’s code of conduct and principles on accountability.
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Actively contribute to the daily quality implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and interventions.
- Identify, document and disseminate relevant project success, challenges and follow up on implementation of project’s action points
- Assist in participatory needs/vulnerability and capacity assessments of affected communities
- Participate in project evaluations and assist in the analysis of results.
Additional tasks
- On request perform any other additional duties assigned by the supervisors in order to allow the organization to function optimally.
- Adhere to ALIGHT’s code of conduct.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a university degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Adult and Community Education, Social Work and Social Administration, Community Psychology or any related field.
- At least three years of experience in Community Services or community development interventions in a humanitarian setting.
- Familiarity with effective community mobilization techniques and social change approaches, such as Raising Voices SASA!, strongly preferred.
- Experience in participatory methods for community education and mobilization.
- Diplomacy and assertiveness; the ability to confront and discuss sensitive issues with respect.
- Must be fluent in written and spoken English.
- Ability to ride a Motocycle with a valid riding licence.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 21st August 2021
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