Advisor, Community Mobilization and Engagement
Full time @RADOMA posted 1 day ago in Education Training Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 574
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Offered Salary 1000
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Career Level Others
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Experience 8 Years +
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Community Engagement Strategy and Planning
- Lead development and implementation of community engagement and demand-side approaches supporting malaria prevention, case management, vector control, and sentinel surveillance.
- Guide use of local intelligence, community feedback, and social mapping to identify transmission patterns, service uptake barriers, and gaps in ITN use.
- Ensure engagement strategies are responsive to local epidemiology, population dynamics, and local government planning.
- Supervision and Team Management
- Provide technical mentorship, coaching, and performance management to support Community Engagement Officers within the field team.
- Ensure Community Engagement Officers effectively plan, deliver, and report on community-level activities in line with approved approaches.
- Promote consistency, accountability, and quality across community engagement activities.
- Government Integration and Coordination
- Ensure community engagement activities are aligned with and embedded within RALG, council, and regional coordination structures.
- Work closely with government counterparts to support community participation in sentinel surveillance, ITN utilization, and linkage to services.
- Represent the project in community engagement and health promotion coordination forums, as delegated.
- Collaboration with Technical and Program Teams
- Coordinate with other project advisors to ensure community engagement approaches align with approved technical guidance for vector control, surveillance, and case management.
- Work with Field Team Leaders to align community engagement priorities with approved activity scope of work and implementation sequencing.
- Coordinate with the Field Team Leaders to ensure logistical readiness for community engagement activities to support ITN distribution.
- Monitoring, Data Use, and Learning
- Work with the M&E team to support monitoring of community engagement activities and participation in sentinel surveillance.
- Use routine data and community feedback to inform adaptive engagement strategies and improve effectiveness.
- Document implementation experiences, challenges, adaptations, and lessons learned related to community engagement.
- Reporting, Compliance, and Quality Assurance
- Contribute community engagement inputs to work plans, progress reports, and internal reviews.
- Ensure activities comply with Jhpiego policies, Department of State regulations, and national guidelines.
- Promote continuous improvement through structured feedback and learning
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Health Promotion, Public Health, Communications, Social Sciences, or a related field required, master’s degree preferred.
- At least 6-7 years of progressively responsible experience in community engagement, demand-side programming, or health promotion within donor-funded health programs.
- Demonstrated experience supervising field-based staff and coordinating community-level teams.
- Strong understanding of person-centered approaches, community participation in surveillance, and factors influencing ITN utilization and service uptake.
- Experience using social mapping, local intelligence, community feedback and human-centered design to inform micro-planning, adaptation and case-based management.
- Demonstrated experience working with local government and community development structures at regional, council, and community levels.
- Familiarity with U.S. Government-funded project implementation and reporting requirements.
- Strong coordination, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Kiswahili.
- Willingness to travel up to 25-30% to project-supported geographies across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills in English
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Ability to travel nationally to project sites
