Community Services Assistants x8 at ALIGHT

Community Services Assistant
Job Category: Programme
Duty Station: Kyaka II (2), Nakivale (2), Rwamwanja (2), Kyangwa, UG
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary Scale: Not Specified
Deadline: Nov 20, 2020 05:00 PM
Description
Reporting to the Community Services Officer the Community Services Assistant will be responsible for empowering Persons with Special Needs to enhance Quality and healthy life for sustainability development. He / she will also be responsible for community involvement and ownership to enhance sustainability and empowerment of Refugees in the Settlement.
Perform any other duties assigned to you. .

Key Duties & Responsibilities
• Ensure effective and efficient community development participation and ownership as an activity in the Refugee settlement
• Responsible for training and empowering community leaders for self-management.
• Carry out and support all outreach activities in the Refugees settlement such as mobilization, sensitization, counseling etc for Refugee to realize full potentials and build on self-mechanism.
• Responsible for effective and efficient follow up of individual cases of beneficiaries for support
• Conduct community leaders meetings including planning meetings, AGDM Verification and Needs assessment.
• Take the lead in all community mobilization during meetings, sensitizations, campaigns organized by ALIGHT and any IPs in the settlement
• Provide psycho social counseling services to all PoCs in need and provide referrals
• Organize weekly community incentive workers’ meetings to discuss activity progress, lesson learnt and challenges and forge way forward in different zones of the settlement
• Be in charge of organizing, mobilizing and facilitating international events days in the settlement such as Women days, World Refugees days, Youth days, 16 days of activism etc.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly reports to be submitted to the supervisor.
• Conduct strategic development and empowerment village informational meetings with the RWC leaders.

Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Social work, Community Psychology, Education, Development studies
• A minimum of 2 years working experience in Community Development services with an INGO
• Excellent report writing, communication and analytical skills.
• Work with minimum supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at a time and work effectively with colleagues from different backgrounds
• Strong computer skills.
• Abillity to ride a motor cycle

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