Community Mobilization and Engagement Advisor

• Oversee community interventions through collaboration with community-based organizations (CBOs); appraising project proposals, award sub-grants, follow-up implementations, collect and review reports of CBOs.
• Lead, execute and monitor all project work plans, milestones, and progress of key deliverables that are related to community outreach.
• Develop/participate in development of annual health education plans and quarterly reports for donors and government.

• Facilitate and provide technical assistance and insights for digital-health platform design, development, implementation, and continued improvement.
• Participate and support grassroots advocacy activity of Ipas and partner CBOs.
• Provide ongoing technical support, supportive supervision, and periodically organize review meetings with CBOs and other partner organizations.
• Create/facilitate referral linkages between the community/youth and Ipas supported health facilities, NGOs / private clinics.
• Serve as a point of contact on community education activities of Ipas Ethiopia with partners and stakeholders through regular communication with all key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the design, development, use and evaluation of IEC/BCC tools and other teaching aids to enhance access to information on SRH.
• Support/participate in Ipass media interventions including journalists training, and message development.

• Compile/develop community education/ communication strategy to guide sub grantees and partner organizations to properly address family planning and abortion issues.
• Identify effective community-based organizations and participate in project appraisal of CBOs and youth focused organizations.
• Conduct pre-award assessment prior to award grants including robust risk assessment by using Ipass sub recipient management SOP.
• File and store all contractual documents in a secure and retrievable place.
• Review and monitor financial and programmatic reports from sub-grantees based on agreed timetable.

• Identify best practices/lessons learned from community approaches and create a forum to share with other Ipas networks and stakeholders.
• In collaboration with R&E unit, track and document data and information on community mobilization activities of CBOs and youth-focused organization.
• Develop tools/ guidelines for conducting pre- and post-test assessments, to evaluate the usage and effectiveness of IEC materials and other community-based interventions.
• Participate/ support conduct rapid evaluation on the success of community-based and youth-focused interventions.
• Participating in in-house review meetings, grant proposal writing, and documentation and reporting of project performances to government partners and donors
• Responsible for documentation of community engagement interventions and generating a report.
• Other related activities as assigned by supervisor.

Report to:Senior Project Manager

Grade: Advisor

Terms of employment:One year with possibilities for extension

Note: Female applicants are highly encouraged!