New Way Social & Development Organization is a development, advocacy, and humanitarian organization established in 2011 and registered with the Ministry of Economy, Government of Afghanistan. The organization is based in Kabul, with programming hubs across the northern and northeastern provinces of the country. The organization strives to empower the vulnerable and marginalized communities suffering from the impacts of war, natural calamities, poverty, and injustice. Additionally, the Organization is also working on the idea of integrated development, which encompasses socio-economic, cultural, and good governance. Community Empowerment is the core of the Organization’s strategy to engage with grassroots groups and communities to address the root causes of poverty, inequalities, and injustice.

• Lead the planning, implementation, and supervision of all project activities in accordance with the approved project document, work plan, and budget.
• Manage the project team and coordinate with partners, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities, effective communication and coordination, and high-performance standards.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with relevant government authorities, private sector actors, civil society organizations, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders at provincial and district levels.
• Ensure that the project adopts a participatory, community-based, and market-driven approach, involving all relevant stakeholders in the identification of needs, priorities, opportunities, and solutions.
• Supervise the project activities in Herat project and coordinate project activities in Herat, Parwan and Kabul provinces, such as training of master trainers, improvement of TVET centers and equipment, and promotion of private sector partnership, in accordance with the project work plan, budget, and log frame.
• Ensure that the project integrates cross-cutting issues such as gender equality, women’s empowerment, and social cohesion in all its activities and outputs.
• Monitor the progress and performance of the project against the agreed indicators, targets, and milestones, using appropriate tools and methods, Log frame, result framework, and theory of change.
• Prepare regular narrative reports on the project activities, achievements, challenges, and lessons learned for internal management and external reporting to the donor.
• Identify potential risks and challenges and under the supervision of the Program Manager, develop mitigation measures and contingency plans to ensure smooth implementation of the project.
• Supervise, monitor, and follow up with the project team’s activities and operations.
• Conducting staff meetings on a weekly basis with the provincial team for better coordination, implementation, and addressing challenges and issues faced by them during the implementation phase.
• Facilitate learning and knowledge sharing among the project team, partners, and stakeholders on the best practices, innovations, and lessons learned from the project.
• Communicate and engage with the donor, the government, the TVET institutions, the private sector, and other relevant stakeholders, to ensure their participation, collaboration, and feedback in the project activities, and to disseminate and advocate the project results and impact.
• Attending all sectoral meetings and presenting NSDO’s operations within the context of a project to relevant governmental and non-governmental authorities and organizations.
• Any other tasks being assigned by the Program Manager.

• A master’s degree in education, Business Administration, Management, economics, or a related field. Knowledge of project management is an asset.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in managing complex and large-scale projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in TVET training, competency standards, TVET facilities and equipment and private sector support, especially in the context of Afghanistan.
• Excellent leadership, management, and communication skills, with the ability to motivate and coordinate a diverse team of staff, and partners.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to adapt to changing situations and cope with challenges.
• Excellent report writing skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and quality reports for internal management and external reporting to the donor.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Knowledge of Dari and/or Pashto is an asset.
• Proficiency in MS Office and other relevant project management software applications.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to the project sites in Kabul, Parwan, and Herat Provinces.

Note:

• Candidates should be current residents of the mentioned duty station.
• New Way Social & Development Organization believes that its employees, beneficiaries, partners` staff, and community members (Child, Young, Male or Female) should never experience abuse or exploitation of any kind related to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), Gender and GBV, Child Safeguarding, safeguarding (Safe environment), Anti-fraud and corruption policies. We have a responsibility to work in a way that promotes the welfare and best interests of children, women, and other vulnerable people and protects them from harm. We have a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to or exploitation/abuse of a child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.
• Our safer recruitment process in the organization includes criminal records checks, a self-declaration of criminal or disciplinary background, and the collection of relevant references; all roles are subject to strict probationary periods.
• We expect those representing the organization to adhere to our PSEA Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding policies, both in their private and professional lives.
• This organization is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship, or physical or mental handicap.
• Considering the Official published letter from IEA (Government), we cannot recruit any current or previous governmental employee who was employed by governmental agencies during last two years.

Applicants are required to submit their Cover Letter and CVs (in one file) to afghanistan.hr@nsdo.org.af no later than the closing date mentioned above and please mention the position title as well as the vacancy number in the subject of their emails. For example, the applicant or candidate may write the position title first and the vacancy number subsequently as follows: Project Manager – NSDO-37-2023

Note:

1- Applications with insufficient, incomplete, and inconsistent information will not be considered.

2- We thank all applicants for their interest; however, due to the large number of applications, only those short-listed for the written test and interview will be contacted.

afghanistan.hr@nsdo.org.af