Community Activist (CA)

 You will work in a team of other Community Activists and cooperate with local partners. Your tasks include to work with and facilitate the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of community-led initiatives. The aim of the initiatives is to mitigate and reduce the stress and conflicts between different communities , with a focus on the areas specifications, culture and psychographics.

Main responsiblities: 

• Formation and Coordination of Local Mechanism
• Planning, conducting and documenting  a Needs- and/or conflict assessment in identified locations
• Identify  community needs and conflict issues to be worked on  and develop action plans / budgets
• Integrate different communities (Lebanese and Non-Lebanese) in a participatory way into the project process to initiate and utilize interventions based on the needs and conflicts
• Facilitating regular meetings and fostering joint decision making with all actors involved
• Outreach and regular communication with local communities and local key stakeholders in their area to build trust and visibility in the local communities
• Coordinating the implementation of the action plans and community projects
• Evaluating activities and using different trained mentoring and evaluation methods
• Social-marketing and bringing issues on the public agenda/raise public awareness

Capacity Building:

• Attend a one year training - cycle (6 x 5-days trainings per year) provided by forumZFD in combination with mentoring support from forumZFD

Learning and Reflection:

• Regular debriefings and time for personal and collective reflection, evaluation, adaptation to changes within the project
• Mentoring community initiative members

Documentation, Narrative and Financial Reporting:

• Document needs, conflicts, activities, interventions and success-stories
• Provide periodical reports regarding the tasks achievements to the coordinator