Community Mobilizer
Shelter For Life-International
- Parwan
- Permanent
- Full-time
He/she will mobilize and register beneficiaries, conduct awareness sessions, and support trainings and Farmer Field Schools.
The role will promote women's participation and strengthen coordination between project staff, community leaders, and local authorities.
Additionally, the Community Mobilizer will gather feedback, address concerns, and ensure transparency and accountability in all activities.Shelter for Life implements safe and PSEA-sensitive human resources practices
and processes throughout recruitment, contracting, and performance management to ensure the safety and well-being of all staff and beneficiaries.Shelter for Life has zero-tolerance policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA).Job Requirements:
- Mobilize and register beneficiaries for crop, livestock, and input distribution activities, ensuring inclusiveness and gender balance.
- Coordinate with community leaders, CDCs, and local authorities to organize training and Farmer Field School sessions.
- Facilitate awareness-raising on project objectives, beneficiary roles, and women's participation.
- Collect community feedback, resolve grievances, and ensure transparency and accountability in project interventions.
- Act as a communication bridge between project staff and communities to strengthen trust, cooperation, and smooth implementation.
- Engage with community elders, CDCs, and local authorities to support smooth project implementation.
- Identify, register, and mobilize beneficiaries for wheat seed, fertilizer, animal kits, milk collection centers, compost, and other inputs.
- Conduct awareness sessions on project objectives, beneficiary roles, and gender inclusion.
- Support Agriculture Trainers in organizing Farmer Field Schools (FFS), demonstrations, and training events.
- Ensure women's active participation in kitchen gardening, livestock care, and food security activities.
- Gather community feedback and report challenges, issues, and grievances to the Project Manager.
- Maintain accurate beneficiary records, attendance sheets, and prepare simple progress reports.
- Serve as a link between project staff and communities to build trust and transparency.
- Assist in resolving local disputes related to beneficiary selection or project interventions.
- Carry out any other tasks assigned by the Project Manager in line with project objectives.
- Bachelor's degree in Agriculture.
- 4 to 5 years relevant work experience in the field of Agriculture with NGOs, INGOs or UN agencies.
- Computer skills at the operator level, especially with MS Office packages.
- Fluency in English and Dari and/or Pashto, both written and spoken.
- Ability or experience in the field of community driven development projects monitoring
- High attention to detail, effective time management skills, strong work ethic, a willingness to learn new skills, and the ability to be a self-starter.
- Having strong report writing skills.
- Experience in planning, reporting and budgeting.
- Good communication skill and able to pass the massage/questions in local languages to the respondents.
- Have good interpersonal skills and ability to plan work.
- Supervisory, team worker, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
- Regional and cultural knowledge of areas of SFL field operations in Afghanistan
- Willingness to work long hours when required
- Ability and willingness to travel to the project sites and outside of duty station within Afghanistan and adjust to the SFL environment as frequently as required
- Honest, proactive, well mannered, and must share values of SFL.
- Willing to stay in field locations
- Ready to work, live and travel in an intricate and strenuous environment
- Local candidates will be preferred.