TITLE: Community Mobilizer, Community Partnerships for Respectful Care

No. to be recruited: Seven (7)

REPORTS TO: Designated CPRC Project Staff depending on the interventions

LENGTH: 24 Months, with potential to extend based on program need, performance, and funding availability

ABOUT AMERICARES:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches more than 90 countries, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine and medical supplies. Americares is the world’s leading nonprofit provider of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

ABOUT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR RESPECTFUL CARE (CPRC):

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under theNew Partnerships Initiative (NPI)has awarded to theAmericares Foundation Inc..

NPI is shifting the focus of USAID’s traditional partners to mentoring, capacity-building, and technical oversight, by using umbrella mechanisms and sub-awards strategically to enable new and underutilized local partners to lead development in their own communities and advance the Journey to Self-Reliance. USAID seeks to expand its network of partnerships with local organizations because they can mobilize quickly and take advantage of long-standing grassroots relationships to bring needed interventions directly to people at risk.

The Americares Community Partnerships for Respectful Care (CPRC) project is a five-year, $25 million effort under NPI to reduce mortality and morbidity among mothers and their children through improved community-based health care. Americares will work withChristian Connections for International Health (CCIH)and its local affiliates in the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Liberia to leverage the expertise and reach of local and locally established organizations, by building their institutional capacity. This new partnership will work closely with Tanzanian and Liberian communities and faith-based networks to improve access to, and demand for, high-quality, community-based health care for mothers, newborns, and children; voluntary family planning; nutrition; and respectful maternity care.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Americares is looking for Community Mobilizers (CM) to implement program activities and data collection throughout Montserrado County. The CMs will engage with health facilities and other stakeholders throughout the county on projects such as health communication, capacity building, data collection and reporting.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Community and Facility Engagement/Advocacy

• Contribute to community sensitization approaches, in collaboration with CPRC project officers.
• Mobilize and facilitate active participation of health facility staff and their communities to participate in planning, monitoring and implementation and evaluation of community health. development initiatives to address respectful maternity care (RMC) issues.
• Build the capacity of children, women, families, and communities to collectively engage local leaders on identified RMC issues.
• Follow-up on commitments by leaders on improvement of the wellbeing of children, women, and healthcare staff.
• Facilitate networking relationships and participation with wide stakeholders such as government, church, faith-based organization leaders and other key partners at local level such as NGOs, CBOs.

Program Implementation

• Support health facilities, communities and partners in adoption of RMC behaviors
• Empower the community members to understand RMC services available at health facilities.
• Work with communities and health facilities on implementation of RMC approaches.
• Identify linkages’ opportunities between communities and health facilities that are (environmentally) RMC friendly.
• In collaboration with District Health Teams, and Montserrado County Health Team, support capacity building of health facilities staff on formulation and implementation of RMC best practices.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring of health facilities and communities Performance on RMC Approaches

• Participate in the development of Community and Health facilities monitoring plan in various catchment communities as per the project scope
• Work with the existing structure to participate in meetings at the facility level to assess progress in implementation
• Travel to health facilities to provide supportive Supervision to Health facilities and communities on RMC adoption and collect data.

• Reporting and Strategy Planning
• Participate in monthly and weekly planning and budgeting, implementation of planned activities and monitoring/ reporting of progress.
• Coordinate and, when required, lead trainings, meetings, and workshops
• Support the collection and documentation of evidence-based impact and success stories, lessons learned and best practices on monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annually.
• Maintain and update database of your assigned facilities and surrounding communities monthly.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Diploma in social science, social work, nursing, midwifery or equivalent from accredited College/University
• One – two years’ experience working for international development organization in the area of health, community-led activities, or social and behavior change
• Must be experienced and comfortable riding a motorbike on a regular basis.
• Experience with capacity building projects, coordinating workshops and trainings and/or working with health facilities preferred.
• Experience networking and building relationships with stakeholders a plus.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, especially with report writing and computers.
• Highly reliable and dependable.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and donors.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• 80% travel throughout Montserrado County to conduct program activities.
• 20% office environment for report writing, meetings, and administrative work.
• May be required to lift heavy boxes from time to time

HOW TO APPLY

In order to be considered for this position, the applicant should please submit the following items in an expression of interest to Americares:

• Curriculum vitae or resume that clearly spells out qualifications and experience
• Cover letter highlighting interest in the position and relevant skills
• Academic credentials
• List of 3 references

Deadline for submission: March 31, 2021

Submissions should be sent to: opportunitiesliberia@americares.org

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.