SUMMARY
Ensure the implementation of community mobilization activities and directly or indirectly lead/supervise local teams (MdM or partners).
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning and implementing capacity building activities
Training, providing technical supervision and advice to teams (MdM or partners) and community organisations
Developing community dynamics, facilitating, and mediating
Identifying community organisations and/or the organisational potential of the community
Building and maintaining the relationship with the community
Involving the community in the design of programmes and activities
Evaluating the impact of activities on the community, improving knowledge, changing practices
Contributing to the development, review, and adaptation of tools
Contributing to needs’ assessments
Collecting information and data. Compiling, communicating, and participating in analyses
Drafting activity reports, contributing to the evaluation and capitalisation report
Contributing to advocacy work, promoting community issues and their acceptance
Management:
Managing and leading a team (information, setting objectives, monitoring activities, managing leave, recruitment, discipline, security, training, skills management)
Planning and monitoring activities and implementing corrective action where necessary
Advising, arbitrating, and supporting measures to be taken in the event of difficulties, malfunctions and/or incidents
SKILLS
Understand methods and tools to develop leadership, promote empowerment and strengthen the capacity of a community
Understand the theme (SRH, HR, MHPSH, PHC, etc.)
Good communication skills and public speaking skills. Ability to adapt behaviour to the target audience
Draft professional documents, organise, classify, communicate
Build relationships, negotiate, develop, and maintain networks. Communicate information, know how to judge what information to share with whom
Assess the impact of actions and adjust them accordingly
Understand the target audience (value systems, codes and practices, medical and medico-social issues, socio-economic and health environment), know how to understand a cultural context, create a bond of trust and how to incorporate that into activities
Being from the target community is considered an additional advantage for the job
Work in a multi-disciplinary team
Be flexible and adaptable; understand and accept changes in the environment regarding people, tasks, work decisions, policies, etc.
Speak the language of the target audience
Use distancing techniques
Management:
Take decisions and arbitrate
Define objectives and performance indicators
Organise, plan, and distribute the workload
Communicate
Assess and develop skills
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Only successful applicants will be called for the next steps and are obligated to disclose any information about family member(s) currently in the employment with MDM-France in any location.
No monetary transactions, neither demands of favors in kind, nor other types of favoritism will be tolerated in the MDM recruitment process.
MDM reserves the right to refuse hiring a candidate having benefitted from any such acts. All illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.
MDM is an equal opportunity employer and encourages any Nigerian citizen to apply irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, political affiliation.
Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct and hence not acceptable.
MDM reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage.
MDM France takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their application.
Candidates are required to submit references upon application.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that MdM does not engage in or accept bribes in exchange for job opportunities. Any attempts to offer or accept bribes will result in immediate disqualification from the recruitment process.”
Due to the nature of this role we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and the role might be filled and closed before the closing date. Early applications are encouraged.
Interested and qualified send in your cv and cover letter in the same document to recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net using the JOB TITLE & LOCATION (e.g JOB TITLE – LOCATION) as subject. using the position as subject of email.
Apply via :
recruitment.nigeria@medecinsdumonde.net