Community Volunteer at the Rehabilitation Empowerment and Better Health Initiative (REBHI)

Community Volunteer at the Rehabilitation Empowerment and Better Health Initiative (REBHI). Please ensure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.

The Rehabilitation Empowerment and Better Health Initiative (REBHI) is a National Non-governmental organization that aims to respond to the need of vulnerable communities by supporting self-reliant empowerment activities, particularly for women and youth and other vulnerable members of society.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Community Volunteer
Location: Pulka, Borno
Employment Type: Contract

The Project

• The project Improving Access to Integrated GBV Services for Women and Girls of Reproductive Age is a 10-month project funded by the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF) and implemented by the Rehabilitation Empowerment and Better Health Initiative (REBHI) in Jere, Bama and Pulka LGA’s of Borno state.
• The project targets vulnerable populations in IDP camps and host communities in Jere, Bama and Pulka with the aim of reducing suffering and vulnerability to GBV, SGBV & SEA for women and girls of reproductive age.
• The project will also support the co-ordination of the GBV sub-sector through co-ordination of the dignity kits technical working group (which REBHI leads) by assessing, reviewing and implementing the needs of beneficiaries into the standardized dignity kits contents.

Job Description

• Conduct door-to-door sensitization on GBV prevention and reporting by community volunteers within IDP camps and host communities of target locations.
• Assist in program coordination, which may include focus group discussion, key informant interviews and one on one interview with respondents based on program developed and supplied by the program lead.
• Promote program intervention within community, especially integrating community leaders and decision makers.
• Assists in developing ways in which community involvement can be increased and community groups strengthened;
• Liaise closely with local actors and other local stakeholders to raise the awareness, sensitize and engage them at grassroot level.
• Provision of linkages to community-based structures relevant for project implementation.
• Participate in overall implementation of the activities as may be assigned by the project team lead.
• Gather and accurately record responses from the community members as the need may demand.
• Submit completed reports and other equipment used in fieldwork to the supervisor and will, if required to do so, compile his/her findings in a format required by the GBV Officer.
• As part of each assignment, he or she will participate in briefings; carry out data collection, data entry and/or reporting.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree, HND, NCE or OND qualification with 3 – 20 years work experience.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the email.

Note: Applications that do not follow this guideline will be disregarded

Application Deadline  17th October, 2022.