IFRC recruits 01 Officer, Risk Communication and Community Engagement

IFRC recruits 01 Officer, Risk Communication and Community Engagement

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Officer, Risk Communication and Community Engagement 

Jobnumber:S02104

Contract Type:Employee

Closing date:12-Sep-2022

Posting Start Date:30-Aug-2022

Location:ETHIOPIA

Duty Station:Addis Ababa

Duty Station Status:N/A

Duration:12 months

Accompanied Status:N/A

Grade:Not applicable

Job Purpose

Officer, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) will work closely with the Country Cluster Delegation for Ethiopia and Djibouti and be responsible for coordinating IFRC RCCE support and technical assistance to the Ethiopia Red Cross and Djibouti Red Crescent in the implementation of the SLL programme in their respective countries. To this end, the RCCE officer will work closely with the National Societies programme focal points, the Operations Manager for Country Cluster Delegation, CEA and Community Health teams in ARO and MENA, and RCCE Working Group

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Under the Direction of the Country Cluster Delegation (CCD) for Ethiopia and Djibouti and supervision of the CCD Operations Manager, the RCCE Officer is responsible for providing technical assistance and support to the Ethiopian Red Cross and Djibouti Red Crescent while engaging all relevant team members including NS counterparts, IFRC programme related staff (CEA and Community Health teams in ARO and MENA), Partner National Societies, and external partners. The postholder is therefore accountable for the following tasks:  

RCCE Technical Support in RCCE design and implementation:

Provide technical support in developing tools, topic guides, training and sampling methodologies for the perception surveys and qualitative assessment.

Support the NSs in setting up community feedback systems, conducting perception surveys, strengthening inter-agency coordination, and ensuring that tools, guidance and resources are shared to support NS to respond appropriately in promoting COVID-19 vaccine uptake

Support NSs with capturing a thorough understanding of the community context and existing knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and rumours circulating in the community around COVID-19 and health responses.

Support NSs to review, adjust, and improve the programme/response regularly, based on community feedback and monitoring

Promote a culture of learning and sharing within the National Societies, including ensuring previous successes and failures are used to inform new programmes and responses

Support NSs to capture and document examples of RCCE best practices, including community-driven approaches to COVID-19 prevention and management, for example physical distancing, hand washing, isolation etc

Ensures existing RCCE materials and resources including strategies, guidance notes, key messages and tools from ARO are shared with NSs

Capacity Building:

Organize and help conduct training of the Ethiopian and Djibouti RCs RCCE teams on the program technical components, ensuring a sound understanding of the activities and deliverables, emphasizing on the agreed technical RCCE/CEA standards for the SLL program.

Support the NSs with the development/adaptation and rolling out of Risk Communications and Community Engagement tools, methodologies, trainings, and capacity building activities to support vaccine uptake.

Job Duties and Responsibilities (continued)

Programmatic Monitoring, Coherence, Quality and Accountability:

Monitor AfCDC RCCE programme implementation in Ethiopia and Djibouti to ensure accordance with the Movement-wide commitments and minimum actions for Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA), and relevant policies and guidelines and report on any issues that arise.

Work closely with technical colleagues across the region, as well as inter-agency partners, to support use of the most relevant social science research, impact surveys and perception data to support the design of comprehensive and evidence-based community engagement strategies for vaccine uptake at country level.

Ensure RCCE socio-cultural research, analysis and key findings are shared with ERCS and DJRC.

Assist the National Societies and regional team in the routine data collections from the community feedback mechanisms and social listening channels to inform the RCCE strategy and key messages.

Support the ERCS and DJRC in defining risk management frameworks, mitigation, and control measures.

Working with the Information Management Officer, Health teams and RCCE Working Group members, support the compilation and updating of the 4Ws (Who does What, Where and When) mapping at country cluster level.

Representation and Coordination:

Represents IFRC in technical coordination meetings with Africa CDC, RCCE/Health working groups led by respective MoH and Red Cross Red Crescent African National Societies forums.

Represent IFRC in close coordination with AfCDC Regional Centres and focal points at country cluster level for the SLL program.

Represent IFRC in any relevant technical RCCE forum with partner agencies at country cluster level to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

Work closely with global and regional CEA, Health and PMER colleagues to ensure there is coordination between RCCE efforts at the country level and regional and global levels

Support the ERCS and DJRC RCCE coordination efforts with external partners, including interagency RCCE Working Groups, UN agencies, other NGOs, and Government

Other Duties and Responsibilities

Contribute to the Country Cluster Delegation’s coordination mandate

Brief personnel deployed to support the SLL Program in Ethiopia and Djibouti

Perform any other work-related duties and responsibilities that may be assigned by the line manager.

Education

A university degree in a relevant area such as community engagement, community development, social and behaviour change communication, sociology, anthropology, health education, or relevant work experience

IMPACT or equivalent knowledge

Experience in and knowledge of project management cycle

Experience

Required

Demonstrable technical experience (3 years+) in risk communications, social and behaviour change communication and community engagement in epidemics, working at a national/cluster level

Experience in setting up and managing projects with a qualitative data collection focus, with sources such as community feedback mechanisms, interviews, focus group discussions, social media posts, etc.

Experience in planning and implementing targeted and appropriate behaviour change or risk communication under health approaches and activities

Experience of designing and delivering/trainings and building the capacity of staff and volunteers

Experience of supporting social science research and/or community feedback systems, including presenting and advocating for action based on findings

Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team in a challenging and highly fluid environment, handle constant change and stay flexible

Experience in designing and developing culturally appropriate and context specific IEC materials and messages, and media campaigns.

Preferred

Experience working with WHO, UNICEF, IFRC and/or other partner organizations

Experience of working with UN Humanitarian Coordination Teams, clusters and health emergencies coordination systems

A good understanding of information management (including data flows, protection and analysis), as well as qualitative and quantitative data collection methods

Red Cross Red Crescent experience is an asset

Knowledge, Skills and Language

Previous working experience in the Africa Continent

Able to analyse and identify areas for improvements in programmes, operations through the integration of RCCE/CEA approaches and activities

Excellent interpersonal, communication and networking skills, able to build relationships with people at all levels of the organisation and with external partners and organisations

Good knowledge of epidemic response, including gender and diversity analysis

Highly motivated, self-starter and team player able to lead a process, engage others and create ownership, across multiple countries and cultures, both in person and remotely

Clear and engaging written and verbal communication skills

Proven good judgment and ability to work with complete integrity and confidentiality

Programme and project management skills (Preferred)

Ability to work within multi-cultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary team

Language 

Fluently spoken and written English

preferred good commend of French 

Competencies and Values

Communication, facilitation and listening skills

Respect for diversity

Integrity

Learning and improvement

Collaboration and Teamwork

Results focused and accountability

Creativity and Innovation

Comments

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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