Position: Community Mobiliser x 2
Based: EJF offices in Robertsport and Marshall
Contract: Full-time, for the duration of the project (4 years) after a 6 month trial period
Salary: Up to €9600 (gross) per annum, dependent upon experience
Benefits:
 Support for healthcare costs
 Annual leave of 17 days plus all 11 Liberian national public holidays, increasing by 2 days each year of
service, plus 1 personal day per year.
 Travel allowance to facilitate access to work
Position overview
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is seeking two highly motivated and experienced Community Mobilisers
to implement and develop our oceans programme in Liberia. We are recruiting two positions, one to be based in
Robertsport and one in Marshall, with the responsibility to effectivity engage and sustain relationships with local
fishing communities and government. This activity is part of a 4-year project supported with funding from the EU to
reduce illegal fishing and improve the sustainability of fisheries by expanding and strengthening community comanagement associations, creating effective capacity for community monitoring and reporting of illegal fishing in
Liberia. The role will require a range of skills and abilities and offers many opportunities for career development
including, but not limited to, community participatory management and community science data collection.
Key responsibilities:
 Act as the local project relay and focal point.
 Communicate, build trust and positive working relationships with local fishing communities (including
fishers, fish processors and sellers), local fishery associations, and Collaborative Management Associations
(CMAs), and other local networks as appropriate.
 Communicate, build and sustain positive working relationships with local government and other
stakeholders as appropriate.
 Ensure that stakeholders are appropriately and consistently engaged to facilitate participation. This
includes women and stakeholders that may feel marginalised, and those that do not have representation or
spokespeople.
 Ensure that the specified project activities are implemented effectively and with the full support and
participation of local stakeholders.
 Provide input into the design and implementation of project activities and approaches as required to ensure
that they are appropriate for the local context and target groups. Gather and document critical issues facing
different target groups including those that could interact positively or negatively with the project activities,
and help identify local opportunities.
 With other members of the team, help build support and capacity of local stakeholders in the tracking of
violations and IUU fishing.
 Support and manage the participation of local volunteers for community science and IUU fishing
surveillance data collection.
 Facilitate the sharing of information with target communities and other stakeholders.
 Organise and enable local meetings, events and capacity development activities as appropriate. Provide
ongoing monitoring as required.
 With the Communications Officer, provide input into the design of communication strategies and outreach
materials, and support the implementation and distribution of the key messages for each target audience.
As appropriate collect monitoring data to help measure the impact of key messages.
 Provide weekly and monthly reports. Document best practices and lessons.
 Carry out any other relevant project activity that may be assigned by EJF.
Essential skills and attributes:
 Education
– Educated to at least high school.
 Professional experience
– At least 2 years’ experience of working with local communities and stakeholder platforms.
– Good written and spoken English. Ability to speak the local languages in the project location where you will
be based.
– Computer literate.
Attributes:
 Diplomatic and tactful under pressure.
 Ethical, responsible, enthusiastic.
 Strong organisational and interpersonal skills.
 Demonstrable ability to work within teams and produce agreed outputs in line with project deadlines.
Desirable skills:
 Ability to collect and interpret basic field data and information.
 Some technological knowledge or interest and willingness to learn (e.g., data collection using smart phone apps)
 Experience of working with coastal fishing communities.
Applications: please send your CV and cover letter explaining why you are the right person for this job:Click the apply for Job button below to apply.
Applications will be considered on an ongoing basis.
Candidates must have the legal right to work in Liberia.
EJF is an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity within the workplace. We encourage applications
form females and marginalised groups
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
EJF is an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity within the workplace.
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Background
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) works to Protect People and Planet.
We believe environmental security is a human right.
EJF investigates and campaigns to protect our natural world, and with it, the communities most dependent upon it.
We work at the grassroots, with environmental and human rights activists who are working to expose threats to the
local environment and to build sustainable futures. Our investigations and the evidence we gather are presented to
the very highest levels of decision taking, amongst policy makers in governments and private industry and to opinion
formers including international media and the wider public. EJF works to end illegal fishing and the use of slavery in
fisheries, protect our global climate and defend climate refugees, and eradicate the use of hazardous chemical
pesticides.
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