MDM is looking for community mobilizers

Community Mobiliser

Main mission:

 To promote community engagement around common interests and issues

To improve a community’s ability to meet its needs, to promote self-reliance

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Main activities

• Implementing awareness/education/prevention activities on specific topics
• Developing and maintaining community engagement.
• Supporting the creation of informal groups/structures. Facilitating community meetings and discussion groups
• Supporting and advising community actors in the activities
• Contributing towards identifying potential community relays and actions of interest
• Building and maintaining relationships with the community. Initiating contacts, identifying key players
• Possible mediation with the various bodies and parties involved, both in the public sector and elsewhere
• Contributing to community involvement in the design of programmes and activities
• Contributing to the evaluation of the impact of the activities on the community, improving knowledge, changing practices
• Gathering information, participating in the study of needs and stakeholder analyses. Conducting field studies
• Participating in the management of minor supplies and equipment needed for activities

 Main skills:

• Good communication skills and public speaking skills. Ability to adapt behaviour to the target audience
• Understand methods and tools to develop leadership, promote empowerment and strengthen the capacity of a community
• Build relationships, negotiate, develop, and maintain networks
• Communicate information, know how to judge what information to share with whom
• Assess the impact of actions and adjust them accordingly
• Understand the target audience (value systems, codes and practices, medical and medico-social issues, socio-economic and health environment), know how to understand a cultural context, create a bond of trust and how to incorporate that into the action
• Being from the target community is considered an advantage for the job
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Be flexible and adaptable; understand and accept changes in the environment regarding people, tasks, work decisions, policies, etc.
• Speak Ukrainian ( or Russian and/or Romanian)

If you have Baccalaureat level or equivalent, you have at least two years work-related experience, you have working knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian  (English or Romanian  will be a strong asset) and you are motivated to engage with a multicultural team, send us your CV to mdm.moldova@gmail.com (at this stage we need ONLY the CV) indicating in the email subject: Community mobiliser

• MDM is advancing the announcement for potential positions, Applications will be processed on an ongoing basis, don’t wait for applying!
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 10 days from receiving the CV