Community Facilitator

Location: Okara

Education: Master's or Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Economics, or Gender Studies

Experience: 3–5 years of experience in community mobilization, advocacy, and trainings within the development sector

Key Responsibilities/Functions

Social mobilisation and community dialogue for behaviour change

• Lead the social mobilization process, identify hotspots, villages and members for establishing Aawaz II Village Forums (VFs), with the support of the Project Coordinator.
• Coordinate regularly with VFs and their Focal Persons and lead the identification process of Aawaz Aagahi Centers (AACs) and Resource Persons.
• Manage VFs and other community structures and organize behaviour change activities with local communities on programme thematic areas.
• Support Resource Persons in organizing community dialogues for formation of the AACs and engage with key community stakeholders in identified villages.
• Lead VF formation, in coordination with Project Coordinator and support Resource Persons for managing VF meetings and activities.
• Support Resource Persons and VFs for developing workplans, maintaining records, organising activities and holding dialogues etc.
  
  

Information and awareness for behaviour change

• Create awareness and share information about Aawaz II priority themes i.e. child marriages, gender-based violence, social cohesion, and other harmful practices, etc. at the community level and target villages to facilitate behaviour change in community;
• Assist the Project Coordinator in mapping of services, mandated and non-mandated structures and preparing a Referral Directory. Ensure that the printed Referral Directories are available in all AACs and AAC RPs are facilitating the information provision to communities including legal information about relevant laws, information related to various government policies and programmes.
• Conduct orientation and capacity building activities with communities and other stakeholders on Aawaz II thematic areas focusing behaviour change.
• Build and strengthen linkages with local communities focusing Aawaz II thematic groups and duty bearers.
• Facilitate behavior change by sensitizing key stakeholders e.g., elders, influencers and specific service providers and support leadership development among the marginalized groups.
• Support the Resource Persons, ACAs and communities in accessing the relevant government and non-government service providers through the formal referral mechanism (legal aid, protection centers, women shelter, social protection etc.)
  
  

Capacity building

• Participate in ToTs and be the facilitator to cascade capacity building sessions to Resource Persons, Village and District Forums and ACAs.
• Support ACAs and VFs in implementing Social and Collective Community Action Projects (SAPs/CCAPs).
• Support AAC (Resource Persons) and district team in behaviour change campaigns on Aawaz II themes such as ending gender-based violence and child marriage, campaigns on the rights of vulnerable groups.
• Support RPs to conduct and organize meetings with relevant duty bearers.
• Ensure that the printed copies of all training modules and EWS-ERM SOPs are displayed in all AACs
  
  

Early Warning System and Early Response Mechanism

• Facilitate VFs in establishing the Early Warning System (EWS) and Early Response Mechanisms (ERM)
• Support establishment of Early Response Mechanisms (ERM) in village forums and their referrals in collaboration with the AACs to relevant mandated and non-mandated structures, for example the Child Protection and Women Protection Committees, District Vigilance Committees, Vigilance Committees (Punjab)/Police Liaison Councils (KP).
• Ensure monitoring and validation of EWS/ERM records maintained by RPs.
  
  

Progress reporting

• Develop and maintain profiles of members of VFs, DFs, ACAs and other volunteers
• Develop and share periodic progress reports with Project Coordinator and support AAC and district team in collecting and documenting relevant information and success stories.
• Weekly reporting of EWS-ERM data to the Project Coordinator
• Lead to prepare training reports, databases, and narrative reports for all the activities held by VFs, ACAs and AACs etc.
  
  

Safeguarding

• Ensure that the Resource Persons, Village Forum Members, ACAs and volunteers are aware of the Safeguarding policy and reporting mechanisms and escalate safeguarding concerns arising from the field to the relevant focal person.
  
  

Knowledge & Skills

Strong communication and writing skills, with the ability to deliver and manage tasks under tight deadlines. Proficiency in MS Office and database management is required.

We proactively encourage individuals from marginalized groups (e.g., minorities, persons with disabilities, and women from remote or underprivileged areas) to apply.

How to apply?

If you are interested in joining our team, please submit your updated Resume along with a Cover Letter clearly stating the position name, your current and expected salary. Applications can be sent via email to or by post to Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi, 12-Sharif Colony, Iftikhar Ahmad Malik Road, Canal Park Gulberg 2, Lahore, Pakistan.

Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards harassment, violations of safeguarding principles, and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
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