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Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict.
Program / Department Summary
With funding from USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps’ Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on an eight-year journey to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence - based interventions, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation, the program has applied a robust contextually - informed design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. USAID Nawiri Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Turkana counties.
General Position Summary
The Social Accountability and Civic Engagement Officer is responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of the community engagement program strategy for community members and their platforms such as village councils, ward development planning committees, civil society and local stakeholders. This will also include engagement and management of civil society organizations (CSOs) and managing the scope of work. The officer will implement integrated community engagement across multiple program components, which will include the continuous assessment and capacity building support of CSOs and community structures, including mentorship, over a long-term period of engagement with a view to enhancing community-driven nutrition resilient interventions. The main objective of this role is to support community platforms, civil society and citizens to better identify problems related to nutrition services and undertake actions to address these problems directly; build collaborations between citizens and government to ensure that the priorities and feedback of beneficiaries are helping government officials plan, resource and provide better services; and analyze accountability ecosystems to help citizens, civil society partners and governments better understand how to make positive change happen with regards to sustainably reducing persistent acute malnutrition in politically complex environments.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT & COORDINATION
SAFEGUARDING
ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
ACCOUNTABILITY TO PARTICIPANTS
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
OTHER:
Conduct themselves professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and do not jeopardize its humanitarian mission. Other duties as assigned.
Accountability
Knowledge and Experience
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