Duties and Responsibilities
- Beneficiary Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM)
- Establishment and Promotion of the CRM
- Establish, implement and monitor the beneficiary Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) for the country mission in line with ACTED standard beneficiary CRM procedures;
- Build capacity and understanding among ACTED staff, partners and contractors on beneficiary accountability and CRM;
- Accompany the AME and/or project teams to the field in order to spread awareness about the CRM to beneficiaries, as well as local authorities and stakeholders in ACTED’s areas of implementation, during field visits;
- Regularly assess effectiveness of all information-sharing efforts and incorporate findings into revised approaches;
- Maintain records of CRM awareness raising and promotion activities (including approximate numbers of participants) and submit to Project Managers as required;
- Implementation of the CRM
- Ensure the effective functioning of the beneficiary CRM and that beneficiary complaints/feedback is adequately captured, analyzed, addressed and responded to in a timely manner and utilized by the program and coordination teams;
- Receive complaints through telephone hotline, in writing and in person;
- Follow up on complaints received by other ACTED staff with the same diligence as complaints received through the CRM directly;
- Treat urgent and/or sensitive complaints with the immediate attention they require, and ensure a fast resolution;
- Maintain confidential and detailed records of all complaints in the CRM database and other electronic and hard copy filing systems, as appropriate;
- Respond to complaints objectively, accurately, and in line with ACTED guidelines, using information provided by Project Managers, AME Officers/Monitors, Area Coordinators, project documents, FLAT documents and procedures, etc;
- Follow up on pending complaints with Project, AME, and Coordination staff;
- Analyse patterns and trends in complaints to help ACTED improve its programming;
- Produce a monthly analytic CRM report for ACTED staff, following ACTED template;
- Adapt and improve the CRM based on monitoring of its effectiveness.
- Other
- Provide regular and timely updates on progress and challenges to supervisors and other team members;
- Assist project and AME teams with other activities, as requested by immediate supervisor;
Perform any other related activities as assigned by immediate supervisor.