Community Facilitators

About The Youth Platform

The Youth Platform (TYP) is a regional youth-led network that amplifies young people’s voices, strengthens youth movements, and promotes meaningful youth participation in social, economic and political development.

Through advocacy, leadership development, community engagement and youth empowerment, TYP works to ensure adolescents and young people are seen, heard, protected and included in decision-making spaces.

About the role

The community facilitators are required to provide the link between The Youth Platform (TYP) and the community in areas where the project activities are implemented. This is to ensure the facilitation of TYP activities done within the community are helping and improving health programmes in terms of strengthening community participation in their health outcomes and improving data for quality programme decisions.

Additionally, the Community Facilitators must be able to live in the community as part of TYP’s strategy which ensures community project ownership.

Location: Solwezi, Kitwe, Kasama and Chipata

Responsibilities

• 01Mobilizing communities and facilitating TYP-organised programmes to ensure the mandate of TYP is achieved.
• 02Organise and facilitate Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and or In-Depth Interviews (IDIs) to ensure data collection that assists project quality delivery.
• 03Facilitating planning, implementation, data collection and routine monitoring of the project in the assigned area/s of operation.
• 04Facilitating effective participation of adolescents, young people, communities and stakeholders in programme activities.
• 05Coordination of programme activities and networking with the communities.
• 06Establishing good working relations with adolescents, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), relevant government departments and other stakeholders at the community level.
• 07Participating in stakeholder meetings and networks at community level.
• 08Identifying key project risks within the area of operation and putting in appropriate control measures to manage them.

Qualifications

• Excellent Communication
• Ability to organize their own work and work independently
• 2–3 Years experience in a similar role in the NGO Environment
• Certificate in Social Work, Project Management, Development studies or related discipline.
• Diploma and Knowledge on SRHR and HIV will be an added advantage.