Education School Health & Nutrition (ESHN) Mobilizer

TITLE: Education School Health and Nutrition (ESHN) Mobilizer, Zwedru, Liberia

TEAM/PROGRAMME: LEARN II Project

LOCATION: Duty Station in Program Cluster/ District in Grand Gedeh County/ Liberia

GRADE: 5

CONTRACT LENGTH: Indefinite

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3: The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: Save the children is looking for a creative individual for the Liberia Empowerment through Attendance, Reading, and Nutrition 2 (LEARN II) Project who has the experience and competencies to work as ESHN Mobilizer. Under the guidance of the Lead Mobilizer, the ESHN Mobilizer is based in selected duty station in programmatic cluster/ district to support effective community entry, engagement and mobilization in school communities. The objective of the engagement with school administrators, PTAs, communities, and parents is to increase community awareness and commitment, and contribution of local resources to project activities implementation across project districts working with other ESHN Mobilizers and project staff. The ESHN Mobilizer is also responsible to coordinate project implementation at local levels with DEOs, and other MOE/MOA/ MOH local staff based and working in the district(s). The ESHN Mobilizer will engage with the schools, the PTAs, FMCs, parents and communities and ensure that all of the project engagement and activities have been properly implemented in the assigned schools. The post holder will work to facilitate the quality implementation of the food for education program according to projects’ design using measurable results framework.

SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Lead Mobilizer 

Staff reporting to this post: None 

Budget Responsibilities: None

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

1. Program Management and Coordination ▪ Conduct field level activity planning with supervision from Lead Mobilizers and support timely project implementation in close collaboration with Education Advisor, School Health and Nutrition Advisor, Agriculture Specialist, Local Regional Procurement (LRP) Manager, and DCOP Program to ensure integrated and quality programming; ▪ Input into the formulation of program annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly workplans and submit in a quality and timely manner; ▪ Participate in Team meetings organized by Lead Mobilizers and/ or Education Advisor, School Health and Nutrition Advisor, Agriculture Specialist, Local Regional Procurement (LRP) Manager and DCOP Program to review program implementation approach, identify gaps and solutions, conduct joint planning sessions, and share quality and timely feedbacks and field updates; ▪ Support the development of quality field level program narrative reports on a monthly, quarterly basis and LEARN Semi Annual Reports with clear analysis and information/data on planned activities, acheivements, constraints and submit to Lead Mobilizers; ▪ Under the supervision of Education Advisor, School Health and Nutrition Advisor, Agriculture Specialist, and Local Regional Procurement (LRP) Manager perform other tasks as required. ▪ Conduct cluster level enagagement, coordination and monitoring with Distrrict Education Officers (DEOs) other MOE/MOA/ MOH local staff based and working in the district(s). through joint planning and school visitation.

2. Community Mobilization and Engagement ▪ Facilitate community mobilization and engagement; stimulate active local participation, facilitate community response mechanism, local capacity building, school development planning through agreed processes for program implementation; ▪ Stimulate community facilitation to organize elections of PTA Executive Committees, revitalize PTA structures and the selection of Food Management Committees (FMCs), SHN Champions, Literacy Champions, and School Garden Focal Points; ▪ Conduct training, coaching, mentoring for community resource persons and committees including Literacy Champions, Community Volunteers, Cooks, Storekeepers, SHN Champions, PTAs, FMCs, School Garden Focal Points; ▪ Facilitate community meetings to conduct assessment and develop action plans with PTAs, FMCs, and SHN Champions, Literacy Champions, and School Garden Focal Points; ▪ Engagement with District Education Officers (DEOs) and community structures including PTAs and school administrators to conduct dialogue meetings, radio awareness and popular mobilization of school and out of school children to re-enroll in school. ▪ Conduct the roll out the PTA training manual to executive committee members, adapting rural participatory menthods to re-enforce local understanding, acceptance, pacticipation and ownership of the implementation of the LEARN Project

3. Technical Areas: 

3.1 School Feeding ▪ Conduct community entry and mobilization to facilitate preparation to commence and provide ongoing support to school feeding activities; ▪ Conduct assessment of school infrastructure and engage PTAs and FMCs to ensure regular improvement, maintenance and/or rehabilitation of school infrastructures (Energy Saving Stoves, Kitchens, Latrines and Storerooms); ▪ Engage technical leads, PTAs and FMCs for provision of cooking utencils, cups, plates, spoons, condiments and fuel/ wood; ▪ Work with the FMCs and PTAs to ensure that schools have the necessary cleaning supplies to maintain safe food preparation and storage; ▪ Conduct training for PTAs, FMCs and Cooks in commodity preparation and accountability of the school feeding program; ▪ Conduct awareness, mobilization and participate in GTHRs/ THRs distribution; ▪ Ensure school meals are provided on time in keeping with safe food preparation guidelines, standards, and FMC action plans. ▪ Support community awareness raising and mobilization on School Garden and Local Regional Procurement (LRP) activities and produce for school feeding.

3.2 Education Literacy Development ▪ Conduct community mobilization and work with PTA structures to identify literacy champions and community volunteers for the establishment and management of Community bookbanks; ▪ Provide training and followup coaching for literacy champions in SCI Literacy boost community action for the mobilization and identification of reading/ summer reading clubs participants; ▪ Support literacy champions and community volunteers to conduct summer reading and regular reading activities; ▪ Facilitate communities to identify convenient locations for the Book Banks so that they are accessible to the community at all times; ▪ Jointly with MOE County and District Education Officers conduct quarterly classroom observation and supportive supervision on implementation of early grade reading instruction and management of teaching and learning materials provide support to teachers and principals to ensure proper books borrowing system is in place; ▪ Conduct the roll out teacher recognition tools to children during school assembly or devotion, reading club and School health club activities, to teachers during planning and training activities, and to parents during regular PTAs meetings; ▪ Conduct the roll out safe school modules to children during school assembly or devotion, reading club and School health club activities, to teachers during planning and training activities, and to parents during regular PTAs meetings. 

3.3 School Health and Nutrition (SHN) and School Garden ▪ Work with PTAs, FMCs and school administration to monitor the implementation of infection prevention control measure at schools; ▪ Promote COVID-19 protocols and guardlines during GTHR/ THR, school health club and reading club activities and assembly or devotion; ▪ Work with school administration to identify school health and nutrition focal person and provide training and followup coaching sessions; ▪ Establish/ reactivate school health club and support development of action plan to ensure healthy hygiene practices; ▪ Provide coaching and mentoring session for SHN Champions in running school health club activities; ▪ Mobilize community for the administering MDA to school communities and collaborate with DHO to collect information on the numbers of children enrolled in LEARN Project schools that received medication. ▪ Liaise with Agriculture Specialist, school administration and PTA to identify school garden focal person; ▪ Mobilize PTA, school garden focal person and school administration to identify school garden site and initiate nursery, compost, transplant,measure acre/site and production of the garden; ▪ Work with school garden focal person to track the quantity of meal provided by the school garden.

3.4 Moniroting, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) ▪ ESHN Mobilizers use pre-prepared MEAL tool, observe, document and report conditions of school facilities: storerooms, kitchens, school buildings, water source, latrines and energy saving stoves. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers collect data on community contributions to related school feeding and building/ rehabilitation of LEARN project school infrastructures. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers to distribute and ensure PTAs and school administration receive ledgers for recording community contribution. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers to ensure community contribution ledgers stored and are properly formatted. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers observe, document and report school level hygiene practices, hand washing,

waste disposal and cleaning school’s campus. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers support, monitor and report on School Health Clubs Activities (group establishment and functionality). ▪ ESHN Mobilizers use pre-prepared MEAL tool, assist MEAL Officer and MEAL Assistants to observe, document and report on school garden activities. (Clearing, seeds and tools distribution, planting, productivity, and harvesting). ▪ Distribute Attendance log to LEARN supported schools on a monthly basis ▪ ESHN Mobilizers monitor the work of school cooks and during lunchtime distributions to students and school staff to ensure that all actions adhere to SC policies and donor regulations and to minimize the risk of damage, loss, theft and/or misuse of commodity. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers monitor LEARN Project supported classrooms, using pre-prepared classroom monitoring tool, to conduct regular headcount to compare daily attendance with Dispatch Authorization Memo (DAM).

3.4 Coaching and Mentoring ▪ ESHN Mobilizers responsible to improve data quality at LEARN Project supported schools, and will develop coaching and mentoring plan for all schools. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers conduct regular coaching and mentoring sessions with school administration, teachers and PTAs at LEARN supported schools. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers produce post coaching and mentoring report with progress on action plans to show improvement. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers conduct supportive supervision for mentees as a way of continually supporting his/her mentees. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers conduct experience sharing meeting with school record keepers to share their experience with other schools. ▪ ESHN Mobilizers provide evidence to LEARN management showing improvement in data quality at LEARN supported schools.

3.5 Child Safe Guarding Policies and Practices ▪ Liaise and work with community groups and the schools to ensure accountability and best use of project resources; ▪ Roll out Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding and Protection Policy and Procedures to stalkholders and beneficiaries during trainings and meetings; ▪ Comply with the requirements of Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding and Protection Policy and Procedures to ensure maximum safety and protection for children during program work and other related actions in communities; ▪ Report all incidents or breach of CSG policy and monthly updates.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice) Accountability: ▪ Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values; ▪ Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved. Ambition: ▪ Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same; ▪ Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others ▪ Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration: ▪ Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters; ▪ Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength; ▪ Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to. Creativity: ▪ Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions; ▪ Willing to take disciplined risks. Integrity: ▪ Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS ▪ Associate’s degree in Social Sciences, Rural Development, International Development, Social Work or a related field, with significant course components in either community development, social work; ▪ Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in community mobilisation activities preferably with an international organization; ▪ Knowledgeable in Word and Excel; ▪ Previous experience in planning and community facilitation skills; ▪ Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; ▪ Understanding of Save the Children’s vision and mission and a commitment to its objectives and values; ▪ Written and verbal fluency in English; ▪ Should be capable of operating Yamaha AG100 motorcycle, sometimes in robust terrain and/or demonstrate the willingness to learn how to operate a motorcycle.

Additional Job Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Gender Inclusion Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Equal Opportunities The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding: We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse

Health and Safety The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.