Senior Community Engagement Officer-Immunization at Save the Children

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Program Delivery

• Support the development of the project's strategic documents including SBC strategy, work plan, MEAL plan and quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports
• Prepare narrative reports for the donor(s) and Save the Children as required, ensuring these are of a high quality and submitted for review in a timely manner
• Collaborate with MOH to cultivate strategic relationships with community leaders, and other stakeholders for the smooth implementation of SBC strategy for the immunisation demand creation
• Participate in the Immunisation microplanning planning process in close collaboration with County and sub county health teams and the project staff.
• In collaboration with county and sub county health teams, support shifts in community engagement approach as needed based on the reports and data
• Respond to donor requests related to progress against targets and provide other programmatically relevant information in a timely fashion
• Ensure that gender and child safeguarding is at the forefront of all community level mobilization activities, including design, planning, implementation, and monitoring
• Ensure the timeliness and quality of all SBC community mobilization content for reports and meet all reporting requirements

Community and Stakeholders Engagement

• Attend meetings and represent the SBC community mobilization initiatives of the project in all relevant levels of government officials, partners, NGOs and private sector representative
• Represent the project at relevant sub-county and county forums including relevant sector conferences
• Work closely with the core group partners to complement ongoing advocacy initiatives aimed at ensuring best practices are institutionalized and scaled up
• Work with health sector working group to further Save the Children's mission for children

People management, mentoring and development

• Provide mentorship to technical project and MOH staff on community mobilization approaches
• Ensure all staff have the technical knowledge to complete their job duties
• Lead and motivate the team to ensure effective project implementation

Knowledge management

• Facilitate appropriate dissemination of good practices documentations in the project internally and externally to donors, governments, partners and other key actors
• Work with MEAL team to facilitate sharing and learning in SBC and leverage on their support to strengthen knowledge management capacities at project level

Contract Duration: 10 Months

Number of Vacancies: 1

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• A Bachelor degree in Public Health or Social sciences with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in INGOs delivering community centred public health interventions in North East Kenya
• Extensive experience implementing community mobilization and health promotion in North East Kenya
• Good understanding of the social behaviour change communication and socio ecological model ; significant players in the community health, community mobilization and Immunisation programming in hard to reach populations
• Proven experience in training staff and community members and strong knowledge of community capacity building for team members, government and community counterparts
• Experience of working with county and subcounty management teams and capacity building of frontline health workers
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in matrix management environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills, collaboration experience, creativity and willingness to innovate.
• Willingness to travel within Wajir county as needed
• Fluent oral and strong analytical, written English communication skills is required
• Proficiency in the Somali language is highly desirable
• Good computer skills (particularly Word, Excel and database)
• Commitment to Save the Children's aims, values and principles including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.