ACTED Vacancy - Community Mobilizers - Belu, NTT.
Henrico Impola
VACANCY – COMMUNITY MOBILIZERS
The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) is a French non-profit organization working in over 30 countries worldwide to provide emergency response, early recovery, and development assistance to communities in need. ACTED’s interventions seek to cover multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach that is both global and local, and adapted to each context. ACTED’s vision is to establish emergency, rehabilitation, and development. ACTED aims to guarantee the sustainability of relief interventions carried out during crises by remaining in the field after the emergency to engage in long-term support to communities in food security, health, education, economic assistance, microfinance, advocacy, and cultural promotion. ACTED’s actions are needs based and identified in a participatory manner with communities in the areas where we are present. ACTED has been active in Indonesia since April 2005, assisting those affected by the tsunami and Nias earthquake and is now working to support livelihoods, community-based disaster risk reduction, and child protection in North Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), and elsewhere.
Currently ACTED has an immediate need for qualified and experienced staff to be part of our RADKOM-DRR project in southern Belu District, NTT. ACTED, in partnership with CIS Timor, proposes to establish a community radio and provide training that will contribute to improving communication and capacity among southern Belu communities in order to improve the timeliness and nature of response to multiple coastal hazards. The intervention will also work to raise awareness of and integrate environmental management into risk reduction among communities and the government, expanding their focus and planning from simple emergency response to longer-term strategies of disaster preparedness and mitigation.
ACTED is recruiting for the following position to be based in the Betun (Belu District) project office. In order to apply, please submit (1) cover letter stating how your experience and qualifications meet the desired criteria and Terms of Reference, and (2) your Curriculum Vitae (CV) in English labeled with your name (maxiumum file size 200KB). Applications must be submitted by e-mail to jakarta.adm...@acted.org by Friday, October 5th, 2012. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
COMMUNITY MOBILIZERS
Under the supervision of the Capacity-Building Manager, the Community Mobilizer is responsible for mobilizing community participation in RADKOM-DRR project activities, delivering training and mentoring to village disaster management committee members, and organizing village-level activities including awareness campaigns, hazard mapping, capacity and vulnerability assessment, and risk analysis, and environmental assessment and micro-project proposals, in collaboration with community members. The Community Mobilizers will be based in the Betun, Belu District project Office, but will travel daily and/or weekly to the 4-5 villages to which they are assigned.
Professional Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum bachelor degree in relevant educational background such as social sciences;
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience working for local or international NGOs or government social programs at village level in community-driven development, Self-Help Groups, capacity-building, Disaster Risk Reduction, or other relevant area;
- Previous experience and good skills in community-based facilitation, training, presentation, and awareness-raising;
- Experience conducting Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) activities desired;
- Good understanding of vulnerability and good capacity to ensure participation of women, elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups in community activities required;
- Problem-solving skills, result oriented and sensitivity to gender issues;
- Ability to draft basic reports on activities and track data such as beneficiary names and numbers;
- Excellent Bahasa Indonesia and Tetun language skills required;
- Intermediate English skills, ability to understand documents and comfort working in a multilingual environment;
- Computer proficiency in Word and Excel.
Personal Qualities:
- Flexible and adaptable, willing to learn new skills and conform to new systems and situations;
- Honest, responsible, self-motivated and able to take initiative under minimum supervision;
- Ability to work as part of a team in a cross cultural environment.--