Position: Community Mobilizer

Organization: OXFAM INDIA

Location: Ahmednagar, Osmanabad and Beed (Maharashtra)

Apply: https://oxfamindia.zohorecruit.com/careers

Key Responsibilities:

• Mobilizing and organizing training sessions, meetings, community events with the community and influencers as per the program at village to district level
• Identify and nurture community volunteers, facilitate youth leadership to support the program as and when required
• Training and capacity building of community groups and update the field activities on a day-to-day basis
• Work closely with community for knowledge generation, evidence generation
• Build an alliance of supporters and engage with middle class
• Initiate preliminary interaction / dialogue/ community based visibility with the community and other concerned.
• Participate in the process of reporting & documentation and provide back up support to the team
• Implement weekly and monthly action plan in coordination with District Coordinator focusing on the program requirements
• Coordinate with district coordinator and cluster resource person to connect community level issues with district and state administration
• Maintain all the program register/documents/ information properly and submit to the District Coordinator
• Will also do any other official work as directed by the District Officer / Coordinator
• Based on the field requirement your role and responsibility may be changed

Skill and Competence:

• 12^th and substantial working experience of at least 2-3 years in development sector
• sound understanding of community and the community processes, local dynamics
• ability to work with different stakeholders (panchayats, local bodies, local leaders, local departments, municipalities, youths
• ability to build rapport with community
• ability to identify & nurturing local leadership
• ability to gather community-led data/evidence/authentic ground knowledge/primary research for advocacy
• strong perspective on gender and social exclusion issues
• Proven track record of doing similar jobs (community mobilization)
• Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team.
• Ability in writing and speaking skills in English and Hindi.
• Should be a self-starter, have good negotiation skills.
• Physical fitness for travel and a willingness for sustained fieldwork.
• Focused work experience on gender/ women’s rights and social inclusion/ diversity in relevant sector would be desirable