Community Mobilization Officer

Role & responsibilities

The role involved identifying children requiring academic assistance and linking them to appropriate education services with regular monitoring of childrens attendance, progress and learning needs through assessments, home visits and regular follow-ups. The position also requires maintaining programme data, preparing reports, documenting best practices and ensuring smooth implementation of CAC activities.

Job Description

• Identification of eligible children who requires academic support and link them in Children Activity Centre (CAC).
• Conduct Baseline and collate the data and share it with the programme manager
• Conduct quarterly need assessment for children at CACs and presenting the inferences to the stakeholders
• Conduct meetings with the parents of the children on monthly basis and share the progress of the children regularly.
• Conduct regular home visits of the children who are absent from the CAC to ensure regularity of the children in the CAC.
• Enrolling children in the schools, ICDS centers and linking the children with NIOS. Develop new, creative activities as appropriate for the children to enhance their learning abilities.
• Consistently collect data on activities implemented at CAC level and attendance, recording attendance of children. submit weekly reports that are on time and of high quality
• Ensure adherence to the Code of Conduct and reporting procedure.
• Responsible for supporting child group, Adolescent group and Community Group activities, including life skills sessions, psychosocial support and awareness.
• Run awareness sessions for children and parents, and support other project staffs to facilitate awareness sessions, as required.
• Flag protection issues which need to be addressed through awareness raising activities and support the development of key message and materials
• Build and manage relationships with Government school management
• Ensure smooth functioning and implementation of programme activities at CACs along with the expected outputs
• Attend and share the experience in regular weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Organise and Participate in Community and SMC meetings
• Document the Best Practices being used in CACs, Prepare monthly report of the work.
• Regular tracking of children in community.
• To identify out of school children and make efforts to enrol them in Government schools.

To support organising enrolment drive campaign in slums with the support of Government teachers, SMC members and Education government authorities.

Skills: Effective communication, Advocacy and Outreach skills, Project Management, Training and Facilitation, Reporting, Data handling and Knowledge on excel

Competencies: Adaptability and conflict management

Kind of experience: Community mobilization, Planning and Execution of field plans