Overview
The Community Engagement Officer will be responsible for mobilizing communities, facilitating engagement activities, and supporting advocacy efforts in coordination with local stakeholders. This role will play a key role in ensuring effective community participation and ownership of project activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate community engagement and mobilization activities and ensure active participation in project interventions.
- Support the planning and implementation of community engagement strategies, like youth led initiatives.
- Coordinate with local stakeholders to promote awareness and ownership of project goals.
- Assist in organizing community meetings, workshops, and advocacy events.
- Collect and document feedback from community members to inform project implementation.
- Collaborate with the advocacy team to support local-level policy engagement.
- Work closely with both the Adolescent and Youth Development Officer and Gender Equality Officer, to ensure alignment with youth engagement and gender equality strategies and best practices
- Monitor and report on community engagement activities and outcomes.
- Ensure that all activities are implemented in line with SCI’s safeguarding and child protection policies.
- Provide ongoing capacity building and mentorship to field teams, community mobilizers, and youth advocates.
- Collaborate with technical teams to ensure consistent messaging, alignment with national strategies, and the use of evidence-based approaches in community engagement.
- Ensure that community engagement tools and guidance are adapted for local contexts and responsive to community feedback.
- Contribute to the design of monitoring tools and indicators related to community engagement and advocacy efforts.
- Track and document community engagement outcomes, success stories, and lessons learned to inform adaptive SRHR and gender programming.
- Prepare high-quality reports and inputs for different reporting, learning products, and advocacy materials.
- Represent Save the Children in relevant community-based forums and advocacy platforms.
- Carry out any other tasks assigned by the Project Manager to support the objectives of the PATHWAY project.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in community mobilization or engagement roles, aimed at encouraging social and behaviour change.
- Experience working with local communities and stakeholders.
- Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring.
- Experience working on gender and/or SRHR programs and interventions.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, or a related field.
