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Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict.
Description
The Gender and Youth Community Facilitators will be based in the following wards in Samburu county.
The Position
The Community Facilitator will be responsible for supporting the USAID Nawiri Gender and Youth technical approaches targeting adolescents and young people (10-24yrs). Girls Improving Resilience through Livelihood and Health (GIRL-H) targets adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) (10-24yrs) and Transforming Masculinity targets young men (15-24yrs). The approaches aim to work with young people to improve their: Assets- Youth have the necessary resources and skills to achieve desired outcomes, Agency- the ability to employ their assets and aspirations to make their own decisions about their lives and set their own goals, and act on those decisions in order to achieve desired outcomes without fear of violence or retribution, Contribution- encourages, recognized, and enables young people to be involved in and lead through various channels as a source of change for their own and their communities’ positive development through safe space model.
S/he will focus on community engagement of adolescents and young people, including the identification, recruitment, retention and training of adolescents and young people; support mentors for the AGYW and Young Men, the establishment of partnerships with key community members (elders, religious leaders, government officials); and ensuring that common strategies and approaches are applied consistently in all communities.
Essential Responsibilities
Monitoring and Reporting
Organizational Learning
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
Accountability to Beneficiaries
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Supervisory Responsibility
Knowledge and Experience
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