Social Specialist (Anticipated agro market, health, and food security project)
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Global Communities
Req #: 2540
Type: Regular Full-Time
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Overview: Location: Gracias a Dios Department, Honduras Reports to: Project General Coordinator Please Note: This position is contingent upon award and client approval with an anticipated start date of June 2025. **Please note: We are seeking local nationals for this position.** Global Communities works at the intersection of humanitarian assistance, sustainable development, and financial inclusion to save lives, advance equity, and secure strong futures. We support communities at the forefront of their own development, partnering with local leaders, governments, civil society, and the private sector to achieve a shared vision of a more prosperous and equitable global community. We work with government, non-government, private sector, and community stakeholders to promote transparency, foster accountability, and access the channels they need to make their voices heard, promote change, and realize their full potential. Global Communities is seeking a Social Specialist for an anticipated project. This two-year program will contribute to the food and nutritional security of vulnerable communities in the Moskitia and the Atlantic Coast of Honduras through environmentally sustainable, resilient, and culturally relevant solutions. The Social Specialist will coordinate the execution of the project's social management process, ensuring, in collaboration with the Environmental Specialist, compliance with the requirements of the relevant Environmental and Social Standards of the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) in the formulation and execution of the business plans of the participating groups. He/she will assess social risks and ensure that measures are included to avoid, minimize, or mitigate them, as relevant. He/she will also design strategies to promote social inclusion processes in the participating groups, establishing and following up on the complaints and grievance mechanism and maintaining adequate communication with counterpart environmental and social teams and national authorities. We are looking for passionate, dedicated professionals to help us build the world we envision: one of expanded opportunity, where crises give way to resilience and all people thrive. Responsibilities: * Ensure that all actions are framed and comply with national and ESF standards for social inclusion and environmental protection, in coordination with the Environmental Specialist. * Facilitate trainings and lectures on inclusion, women's empowerment, and related subjects to ensure project staff integrate these subjects into their programming. * Conduct a study of gender gaps and multi-generational inclusion; develop and implement strategies according to this study. * Promote and facilitate the participation of young people in project activities. * Assess social risks in business plans and nutrition & hygiene plans and ensure that measures are included to avoid, minimize, or mitigate them. * Ensure the implementation of protection and safeguarding policies. * Facilitate participatory and consultative mechanisms with communities, including the establishment and required follow ups of the complaint and grievance mechanism. * Promote the process of social inclusion in the participating groups. * Promote the methodology for the preparation and execution of Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP). * Develop a mapping of providers of gender-based violence prevention and care services. * Support the development of monthly and quarterly reports on project implementation and monitoring. * Support the development of project management indicators as part of the project's Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan. Qualifications: Key Requirements * A university degree in social work/social management, sociology, anthropology, history, psychology, economics, or another degree relevant to the functions of the position, with a master's degree in any discipline in the social, economic, or development area. * At least six (6) years of work experience promoting, supporting or advising processes of participation and social inclusion, preferably with indigenous peoples and afro-descendants of Honduras or other regions of the Americas. * Knowledge of the indigenous and/or Afro-descendant context and verifiable work experience in the Honduran Moskitia region. * Verifiable work experience in promoting the inclusion of specific groups such as youth, women, indigenous, and Afro-descendant peoples, the disabled, and the elderly in agricultural or rural development programming. * Verifiable experience in social risk assessment and management for programs or projects in rural areas. * Verifiable experience in facilitating, supporting, or executing organizational strengthening processes in communities, family/producer groups, and/or organizations in rural Honduras. * Proven experience in facilitating training processes on social issues for different actors in rural areas, with the ability to adopt processes and methodologies in culturally differentiated groups. * Good verbal and written communication skills. * Leadership and ability to coordinate with technical teams from different disciplines. * 100% proficiency in Spanish (spoken, reading and writing). Knowledge of the Miskito, Tawaka, Pech and/or Garífuna language will be an advantage, but is not required. Additional Competencies * Broad understanding of the principles of humanitarian action/emergency relief and resilience objectives. * Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams. * Tolerance to working under pressure. * Strategic planning and negotiation skills. * Planner, methodical, orderly. * Excellent interpersonal relations, * Analytical skills * Excellent interpersonal relations. * Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software. * Good negotiation and problem-solving skills. * A passion for the mission and values of Global Communities. Global Communities positively welcomes and seeks applications from all sections of society. We are committed to a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of everyone and offers equal opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. Global Communities holds strict safeguarding principles and has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. In the process of recruitment, selection, and appointment, Global Communities will conduct robust reference and background screening checks, including international vetting as a signature of the Global Misconduct Disclosure Scheme to ensure children and vulnerable adults are safeguarded, and abuse is prevented. The incumbent is required to carry out their duties in accordance with Global Communities Safeguarding policy and the Standards of Conduct. Especialista Social (Proyecto anticipado de mercado agrícola, salud, y seguridad alimentaria) Ubicación: Departamento Gracias a Dios, Honduras Reporta a: Coordinador General del proyecto Nota: Este puesto depende de la adjudicación y de la aprobación del cliente, con una fecha de inicio prevista para junio de 2025. Visión general: Global Communities trabaja en la intersección de la ayuda humanitaria, el desarrollo sostenible y la inclusión financiera para salvar vidas, promover la equidad y garantizar un futuro sólido. Apoyamos a las comunidades en la vanguardia de su propio desarrollo, asociándonos con líderes locales, gobiernos, la sociedad civil y el sector privado para lograr una visión compartida de una comunidad global más próspera y equitativa. Trabajamos con las partes interesadas gubernamentales, no gubernamentales, del sector privado y de la comunidad para promover la transparencia, fomentar la rendición de cuentas y acceder a los canales que necesitan para hacer oír su voz, promover el cambio y desarrollar todo su potencial. Global Communities busca
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