FilmAid Emergency Program Assistant Job in Dadaab Kenya

Project Background:

FilmAid International is one of UNHCR’s Implementing partners and currently implements a variety of projects with funding support from UNHCR and the US government through Bureau of Population and Migration (BPRM).

These projects generally correspond to FilmAid’s core areas of Health, Protection and Community services and involve production of different videos.

Additionally, FilmAid is also responding to the emergency precipitated by the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa which has caused an unprecedented influx of refugees into the Dadaab camp.

FilmAid is responding through developing and disseminating a new arrivals information kit targeting the new arrivals exclusively.

This kit will contain short instructional videos and accompanying public service announcements (PSAs) with key messages on the emergency registration procedures, food collection and intake and malnutrition among other identified needs.

FilmAid is looking to recruit an emergency program assistant to coordinate production and dissemination of relevant informational audio-visual materials to respond to this emergency.

Specific tasks for the Emergency Program Assistant:

The Program Assistant will be based in Dadaab with the general objective to provide emergency program implementation support in Dadaab. The emergency Program Assistant reports to the Program Officer and will fulfill the following functions.

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Meet regularly with the emergency response coordinating committee and update them on FilmAid’s response and also obtain necessary updates and trends.
• Spearhead the information gathering process by engaging all the relevant stakeholders including members of the community and the aid organizations.
• Coordinate rapid informational needs assessments of the new arrivals and incorporate outcomes into the response frameworks.
• Adapting information gathered from emergency coordination and relevant emergency sector meetings within Dadaab, in the camps and other reviewed data into structured messages that can be used by the production team in developing rapid IEC materials.
• Work with program officer, the emergency staff in designing information and dissemination plans in accordance with FilmAid’s established emergency information dissemination strategies.
• Work closely with the Program officer in providing regular updates of the dissemination through quantitative and qualitative reports.
• Work with the field staff in keeping accurate statistics of daytime screenings, public awareness campaigns, mass audience screening and video workshops with regard to the emergency.
• Monitor and collect feedback on emergency production and dissemination activities.
• Act as a liaison between FilmAid, the new refugee community and other agencies in Dadaab on issues pertaining to information dissemination activities in Dadaab.
• Be responsible for the well being of FilmAid equipment in the field by Ensuring that FilmAid screening and other equipment are safely and properly stored
• Train facilitators in the use of the facilitation guides on a regular basis and supervise emergency
• Perform any other duties as may be required to address issues of the emergency
• Be familiar with both FilmAid and the Kenya Codes of conduct.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Be of Kenyan nationality.
• Degree or Diploma in community development and/or social sciences.
• Experience working in a humanitarian organization in the field.
• Experience working in community media for development projects.
• Experience in working with refugee communities or rural communities
• Should be culturally sensitive and able to work with diverse cultures
• Ready to work for long hours, in a hardship area.
• Ready to work with minimal supervision with ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Detail oriented and good organizational and communication skills.
• Must be computer literate with excellent knowledge of Microsoft windows office packages.
• Knowledge of Somali language and culture is an added advantage.
• Possessions of a valid driver’s license an added advantage.
• Video facilitation skills an added advantage.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and action

Send in your cover letter and CVs ONLY to jobskenya@filmaid.org so as to reach not later than 22nd August 2011.

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