Fresher Community Services Assistant NGO Jobs – Care and Assistance for Forced Migrants (CAFOMI)
Job Title: Community Services Assistant
Organisation: Care and Assistance for Forced Migrants (CAFOMI)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reference Number: CSA/BUB/ 2018
Reports to: Protection Officer
About US:
Care and Assistance for Forced Migrants (CAFOMI) is a not-for-profit; non-partisan organization limited by guarantee and registered by the Uganda NGO Board/Bureau as a national non-government focusing on protection and assistance in complex emergencies, local context durable solutions for forced migrants, early warning alerts through research and advocacy and a national response surge capacity for emergencies. CAFOMI aims to ensure that forced migrants (refugees) live a dignified life to internationally acceptable standards and positively contributing to the development of their host communities through professionalism, commitment, transparency, accountability, teamwork, participation, partnerships, respect, integrity, multiculturalism, continuous learning and development. CAFOMI, through a tripartite agreement with UNHCR and Government of Uganda (OPM) was selected to implement emergency response and mixed solutions activities in 2018 in the refugee hosting districts of Bundibugyo, Isingiro, and Kisoro.
Job Summary: The Community Services Assistant will serve as the critical interface between CAFOMI and communities of concern, providing an AGD sensitive analysis of community risks and capacities that form the essential foundations to all CAFOMI work.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Stay abreast of political and social, economic and cultural developments that impact on the protection environment.
- Participate in consultative processes with government counterparts, partners and persons of concern to develop and implement community-based protection strategies.
- Establish links with inter-agency capacity building initiatives which promote participatory community-based and AGD approaches.
- Establish systems, including those managed by communities, to ensure that individual cases identified at the field level are assessed, referred as appropriate, and followed up using established case management systems.
- Advise program/protection unit, country offices and partners, in order to integrate participatory, community-based and AGD approaches in the overall protection delivery strategy.
- Map and provide analyses on protection risks to communities of concern as well as their capacities and resources for community-based protection and self-protection initiatives.
- Work with implementing and operational partners as well as with displaced and local communities to develop community-owned activities to address, where applicable, the social, educational, psychosocial, cultural, health, organizational and livelihood concerns as well as child protection and prevention and response to GBV.
- Implement regular participatory assessments and maintain on-going consultation with persons of concern using multifunctional teams.
- Provide support in the planning and monitoring of programs and budgets through an AGD perspective.
- Assist in building office capacity for community-based protection through training and establishing systems for community mobilization and participation of persons of concern.
- Actively contribute to CAFOMI communication strategies by emphasizing the participatory, community-based and AGD approaches.
- Keenly monitor community services budgets and expenditures and advocate with senior management for (re) allocation of resources within the country envelope to meet new and/or outstanding needs.
- Carry out any other duty assigned to you by your supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Development studies, Social sciences or related field.
- Two years of working experience in the areas of community services, social work (e.g. gender, GBV programs, women’s empowerment and protection, work with refugees) and/or human rights or related tasks in government and NGO.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their applications with an application letter, updated CV including telephone and Email contacts of three professional referees with the most recent employer. Please do not attach academic credentials as these will be availed for the shortlisted candidates.
Send to:
Human Resource Department,
Care and Assistance for Forced Migrants (CAFOMI),
P.O. Box 7785 Kampala. Uganda.
Email to: hr@cafomi.org (Please clearly indicate position title and reference number as the subject of the Email)
Deadline: 12th March 2018
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