JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY MOBILIZER I - Organization context

Samyukta Safai Jagaran (SASAJA) is a non-governmental, non-profit making, non-political organization established by groups of informal waste workers in 2014. SASAJA focuses on the recognition, rights, occupational health and safety, and advocacy for Informal Waste Workers (IWWs). SASAJA wants to advocate to the government, especially on recognizing their contribution to waste management, government trust funds for IWWs, ensuring health and safety, and access to social health insurance.

SASAJA, in collaboration with a trusted international partner, is implementing a project for the protection of the environment and promotion of the health of informal waste workers and people of the slum areas of Kathmandu and Sisdole. SASAJA is especially responsible for the overall implementation of the project which is to Mitigate environmental factors affecting the health of exposed vulnerable populations of waste workers and urban slum areas in Nepal, Support the local government in the promotion of a resilient health system providing quality healthcare services and health equity in Nepal through advocacy in Kathmandu Valley and Sisdole landfill site of Kakani Rural Municipality.

SASAJA will contribute to ensuring that waste workers’ and slum peoples’ health issues are better addressed within the health care system, wellbeing, and institutional linkage. Through the project, SASAJA identifies the target groups and aims to support them with different activities to mitigate Environmental and Occupational Risks and improve access to health care through the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme and other health and environmental interventions.

II- Main aims of the post

The Community Mobilizer is responsible for community mobilization in the field to implement the project activities with communities. The Community Mobilizer works in close coordination with the SASAJA project coordinator and the project team.

Hierarchical positioning: Reporting directly to the Project Coordinator of SASAJA.

Main responsibilities:

Community mobilization and project implementation

• Participate actively in conducted trainings, workshops, and meetings.
• Compliance with the Community Mobilization guidelines of this project.
• Actively participate in the mapping of Informal Waste Workers (IWWs) and people of slums involved in Kathmandu Valley/Kakani Rural Municipality and outreach activities and assist in collecting information for KAP surveys, qualitative research, periodic updates/assessments, and final survey.
• To communicate and orient the community about the objectives of the project and organization.
• To manage the local level meeting, group discussion, and orientation for the activities as per the project objective in coordination with the supervisor.
• Support IWWs and people of slums for active participation in meetings, BCC sessions, health camps, orientation, and training.
• Support, supervision, and monitoring of IWW’s non-profit enterprise leaders regarding registration and well-functioning
• Support PC to conduct a capacity assessment of leaders.
• Support PC to conduct various capacity-building trainings for leaders and members of IWW non-profit enterprises.
• To conduct and support managing all regular group meetings, coordination meetings, and training at the field level.
• To support IWWs and slum people for accessibility of health services through NHI.
• Conduct various demand-generation activities at the community level for utilization of local health services.
• Coordination and collaboration with local stakeholders for effective planning and implementation of project activities.
• To conduct orientation and training on Behavior Change Communication awareness sessions and waste management campaigns in the communities.
• Implement waste management promotion events at wards level and different community groups that involve 3R and waste segregation training.
• To help facilitate and conduct public hearings and social audits in the communities.
• To coordinate the local stakeholders such as ward chairperson, members, ward secretariat, schools authorities, health post authorities, political parties, and other waste management-related organizations in the concerned wards.
• Develop strategic action plan and pre & post questionnaires for BCC orientations

Communication and Reporting

• Report to Project Coordinator on all issues related to progress and achievement in the field
• Collect information and produce quality reports, case stories, and photos and keep proper data records and other related documents.
• To submit the regular report on events, on a monthly, quarterly, and trimester basis as per the requirement of the project.
• To perform the work as per the rules and regulations of the organization he/she has to be in contact with the organization at any time.
• Close coordination with all the partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries of this project.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Collect relevant project data and records as per the donor requirements.
• Follow the project M&E mechanism and handle the issues that may arise
• Create and share case stories of best practices every month.

Education and qualification

The candidate should possess at least a proficiency Certificate in General Medicine, (BPH preferred) with at least 2 years of professional experience in the related field.

Required no. of position

One position based in Kathmandu

Project duration: Three months initially.

Interested and qualified candidates are requested to submit their updated CV with motivational letters to [email protected] no later than 9th April 2024.