Save The Children Community Development Facilitator Jobs in Ethiopia
Save The Children Community Development Facilitator Jobs in Ethiopia
Job DescriptionIntroductionSave the Children is an exciting and dynamic organization that follows a holistic approach to achieve more for children and use its resources in an efficient and sustainable way.
In every programming we aim to achieve results at scale, build partnership to influence others and increase our impact; look for innovate solutions to the problems children faces, campaign for better practice and ensure that Children’s voices are heard.
Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives.
We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity.
We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity.
Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.
Save the Children offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development. If you are interested to work in an organization that is determined to achieve dramatic change for the most vulnerable children, we encourage you to look through the job profile below.
Role Purpose:
The post holder works with particular geographical community in order to collectively bring social change, empowerment and improve quality of life.
S/he mobilizes and motivates the community to critically discuss their situation and their roles and contributions in all decision making process and activities that affect their lives and the life of their community.
The post holder will closely work with community members , community leaders and government Development Agents & health extension workers to help them tap in to their own knowledge and resource, provide them with latest scientific results, methods and techniques to increase income, productivity and production, improve quality and also aid interventions and assesses and updates the food security situations of the operational areas where he/she is assigned .S/he ensures real community participation in different stages of project cycle and facilitates a process of empowerment, learning and action.
Key Areas of Accountability:
Mobilize the community together with technical officers and Government Development Agents(DAs) and Health extension workers(HEWs) as appropriate for participation in planning, implementation and monitoring of activities
Carry out the day-to-day implementation and monitoring of activities at community level
Facilitates a process of community empowerment, learning and action
Engage communities actively in making sense of the issues which affects their lives, setting goals for improvements and taking action through empowerment and participative process
Conduct data collection, tabulation, analysis, documentation and dissemination
Ensure participatory monitoring and evaluation of existing projects (local people are active participants-not just source of information)
Acquire accurate information about selected beneficiaries’ families, their problems, needs and capabilities
Acting as facilitator to promote self-help and other social groups in the community
Participate in Planning, coordinating meetings and other events at kebele level
Job Requirements
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Natural Resource Management, Environmental science or relevant
technical field.
Minimum of 4 years of professional and technical experience for Diploma holder and 2 years for degree.
Training in participatory approach/Participatory Learning and Action/extension service
Professional work experience in organizing/conducting participatory learning
Working contacts
External:
Significant engagement with kebele government officials and stake holders like Kebele leader/manager, ADA, HEWs, livelihood & DRM committees
Regular engagement with project beneficiaries at kebeles level
Internal:
The CDF reports to FSL Officer and functional relationship with H&N Project Officer, WASH Project Officer and Youth livelihood and employment specialist at Sekota.
Regular engagement with the Field Office staff, the overall RESET PM, Senior Program Manager and FOM.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Child safeguarding
Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children. We undertake rigorous procedures including background checks to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organisation and all candidates will therefore be subject to this scrutiny.
How to Apply
Interested applicants who meet the minimum requirements should send the following through Selamawit.Ayelign@savethechildren.org before 4th February, 2019 with in ten days.
A CV (not more than 3 pages)
A cover letter (not more than one page)
A one-page table summarizing your educational background, work experience, technical skills and competencies to facilitate the screening process. Refer the vacancy announcement while doing this
Please DO NOT SUBMIT copies of transcripts, academic degrees or recommendation letters with the application. You will provide them upon request.
Please Make Sure You State the Code of the Vacancy on the Subject of Your Email.
Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children. We undertake rigorous procedures during the recruitment process including background checks to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organisation and all candidates will therefore be subject to this scrutiny.
In the selection of its staff, Save the Children is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities.
Note: All travel costs should be covered by the applicant if invited for written exam or interview.
