Officer, Community Mobilization & Engagement
Full time @RADOMA posted 1 day ago in Construction / Facilities Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 575
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Offered Salary 1000
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Experience 6 Years
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Industry Development
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Community Mobilization and Demand-Side Implementation
- Implement approved community engagement and demand-side activities supporting malaria prevention, case management, vector control, and sentinel surveillance.
- Support community sensitization, dialogue, and outreach to improve ITN access, consistent use, early care-seeking, and participation in surveillance activities.
- Engage local leaders, influencers, and community structures to address misconceptions, harmful norms, and structural barriers affecting service uptake.
- Social Mapping and Contextual Analysis
- Apply social and participatory mapping approaches (e.g., community mapping, network mapping, transect walks, stakeholder mapping) to identify population dynamics, mobility patterns, underserved groups, and barriers to service access and utilization.
- Use community feedback, social mapping outputs, and local intelligence to inform micro-planning and adaptive engagement strategies.
- Support targeting and prioritization of community engagement activities based on social mapping findings.
- Coordination with Government and Field Teams
- Work closely with regional and district health promotion coordinators, council teams, CHWs, and facility staff to plan and deliver community-level activities.
- Support alignment of community engagement activities with RALG, council, and regional plans and structures.
- Participate in local coordination meetings and government-led malaria campaigns as assigned.
- Monitoring, Documentation, and Learning
- Monitor and document community engagement activities using approved tools and reporting formats.
- Collect, synthesize, and report community feedback, participation data, and social mapping findings.
- Contribute to documentation of lessons learned, challenges, and promising practices to inform adaptive management.
- Reporting, Quality, and Accountability
- Prepare timely activity reports and field updates for submission to the Community Engagement Advisor.
- Ensure activities are implemented in line with approved workplans, safeguarding standards, and quality requirements.
- Flag implementation challenges, community risks, and emerging issues for follow-up
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Community Development, Health Promotion, Public Health, Social Sciences, Communications, or a related field required.
- At least 5-6 years of relevant experience implementing community mobilization, engagement, or health promotion activities in donor-funded health programs.
- Demonstrated experience applying social or participatory mapping approaches to identify community structures, social networks, mobility patterns, underserved groups, and barriers to service access and utilization.
- Practical experience using community feedback, qualitative methods, and local intelligence (e.g., community dialogues, key informant discussions, participatory exercises) to inform micro-planning and adaptive engagement.
- Experience engaging local leaders, influencers, and community-based structures to address social norms, misconceptions, and structural barriers affecting health service uptake.
- Experience working with health promotion and community development structures at district and regional levels.
- Familiarity with person-centered, participatory, and social and behavior change approaches.
- Ability to document activities, synthesize social mapping findings, and contribute to routine monitoring and reporting.
Required skills
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