PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
The Community Mobilizer (Education) is responsible for strengthening community engagement and participation in COAR's education project, particularly activities implemented through Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) in targeted communities of Herat Province, including Injil District and Herat City.
The position focuses on mobilizing communities to support children's access to education, identifying and enrolling out-of-school children, promoting regular attendance and retention, supporting the establishment and daily functioning of TLSs, promoting safe and inclusive learning environments, and facilitating effective communication between COAR, communities, teachers, education authorities, and other relevant stakeholders.
The Community Mobilizer will also support field-level data collection, monitoring, reporting, accountability, safeguarding, and implementation of education activities in accordance with COAR policies and project requirements.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Community Engagement and Mobilization
- Mobilize community members, parents, caregivers, elders, religious leaders, and School Management Shuras/Committees to support education activities and TLSs actively.
- Promote community ownership of TLSs and encourage communities to support children's education, attendance, retention and protection.
- Conduct community meetings, awareness sessions and household visits to promote the importance of education.
- Support the identification and mapping of out-of-school children (OOSC) in targeted communities.
- Support beneficiary verification, registration and enrolment in accordance with approved project criteria.
- Promote inclusive participation of marginalized and vulnerable groups, particularly girls, children with disabilities, returnees, displaced children, and vulnerable households.
- Identify and communicate community concerns, barriers and cultural issues affecting children's access to education.
- Support community awareness campaigns and back-to-school activities.
2. Education Project and TLS Support
- Support the establishment, daily functioning, and sustainability of Temporary Learning Spaces.
- Coordinate with teachers, Education Trainers and other education staff to ensure smooth implementation of learning activities.
- Support student enrolment, re-enrolment and regular attendance tracking.
- Follow up with parents and caregivers regarding irregular or prolonged learner absence.
- Support activities related to remedial education, accelerated learning, catch-up learning and life-skills activities where applicable under the project.
- Support the distribution of student kits, teaching and learning materials, textbooks and other education supplies as assigned.
- Assist in ensuring that distributed materials are properly received and used by intended beneficiaries.
- Support the organization of community and learner activities at TLS level.
- Identify operational challenges affecting TLSs and report them promptly to the supervisor.
- Support learner transition to formal education or hub schools where applicable under the project.
3. Coordination and Liaison
- Act as a liaison between COAR, communities, TLS teachers, Education Trainers and project staff.
- Maintain regular communication with parents, caregivers, community leaders and School Management Shuras.
- Support coordination with relevant education authorities, including the District Education Department (DED) and other designated education authorities.
- Facilitate communication between communities and the project team regarding project activities, concerns, challenges and updates.
- Participate in community meetings, project coordination meetings and field-level events as required.
- Maintain constructive relationships with community structures and relevant stakeholders.
4. Safeguarding, Child Protection, PSEA and Accountability
- Promote child protection, safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) principles at community and TLS levels.
- Ensure that community engagement and project activities are conducted in a safe, inclusive, respectful and child-friendly manner.
- Report safeguarding, protection and PSEA concerns or incidents immediately through COAR's established reporting mechanisms.
- Support awareness among beneficiaries and community members regarding COAR's feedback and complaint mechanism (CFM).
- Facilitate safe access to feedback and complaints mechanisms for children, parents, and community members.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive beneficiary and safeguarding information.
- Ensure that all beneficiaries are treated fairly and without discrimination.
5. Monitoring, Reporting and Digital Data Collection
- Collect accurate field-level information related to beneficiary registration, attendance, community participation and education activities.
- Support OOSC assessments, beneficiary verification, surveys, monitoring visits and project evaluations.
- Use KoBo Toolbox and other approved digital data collection tools as required.
- Maintain accurate digital and hard-copy records of community meetings, beneficiary information, attendance, and other assigned activities.
- Upload reports, attendance sheets, photographs and other required documentation to OneDrive or other designated online platforms.
- Ensure that collected data is complete, accurate, timely, and properly protected.
- Provide regular field updates and reports to the Project Officer/Project Coordinator.
- Report implementation challenges, risks and community concerns and provide practical recommendations where possible.
- Support the project team in preparing monitoring and progress reports.
6. Compliance and Adherence to COAR Policies
- Comply with all COAR policies, procedures and personnel requirements.
- Strictly adhere to COAR's Child Protection, Safeguarding, PSEA, Code of Conduct, HR, Accountability and other relevant policies.
- Follow approved project procedures, tools and reporting requirements.
- Maintain confidentiality and integrity of project and beneficiary information.
- Follow security and field movement procedures applicable to the assigned location.
- Avoid any conflict of interest, unauthorized collection of money, or provision of preferential treatment to beneficiaries.
- Perform any other education- or community-related duties assigned by the Line Manager.
