About Afghanaid:
Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar, Khost and Paktia. For 4 decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable livelihoods and food security; adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk, and emergency humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.
Job Descriptions:
Responsibilities:
- Ensure all required information and documents to Community Resilience and Livelihoods Project are entered in MIS and submitted to database officer.
- Conducting of awareness and relevant training sessions with community and CDCs.
- Facilitating and implementation and follow up of project activities in provincial and district level.
- Updating the community profile with communities.
- Prepare community beneficiary list.
- Informing the CDC when their fund is disbursed and arrived at the CDC Bank account.
- Ensuring the transparency and accountability at the community level.
- Supporting the CDCs and its procurement sub-committees on the procurement process.
- Completion of all financial and procurement document.
- Make sure the confirmation and approval of all financial documents by CDC and its record in CDC file
- Preparing a clear report from all steps and submit to Lead social organizer.
- Any other duties as and when assigned by lead social organizer.
Job Requirements:
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Education & Professional Qualification
At least Bachelor degree in in relevant field
Work Experience
Relevant experience as Social Organizer in community driven development programs in Afghanistan or similar environments.
Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable with strong initiative, judgment and adaptability as well as excellent skills in communication, organisational, interpersonal relations, decision-making and reporting.
Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:
Key Skills and Competencies
Essential
Fluency in written English and demonstrated ability to write and lay out high-quality documents,
Knowledge of Dari and Pashtu is compulsory.
High-level proficiency in office applications, including spread sheets, word processing, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Excellent conceptual and analytical skills able to distil key ideas with clarity and precision.
Strong organizational and coordination skills, able to work with significant levels of autonomy, manage personal priorities and meet tight deadlines.
Resilience to live, travel and work in isolated and possibly insecure locations.
Flexible and dynamic with the ability to deal with difficult, often ambiguous and challenging situations and creatively solve problems.
Clear and firm commitment to the rights, equality, role and empowerment of women, minorities and persons with disabilities.
Desirable
Previous work experience in the same positon with INGOs
Other Information
Afghanaid’s core values are creativity, fairness and honesty. Our staff are passionate about and proud of their work. Teamwork is fundamental to our standards and is demonstrated by taking initiative, assisting others and taking on additional responsibilities / tasks if necessary. We are results driven, committed and motivated to achieve targets and take accountability for our own actions.
Our remuneration and benefits package is competitive with other similar organisations. This position presents an excellent opportunity for someone who has the ambition and determination to move up in their career.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form and email a completed application form, covering letter and your CV, by no later than 20 March 2024 to vacancies@afghanaid.org.uk ; including your name, vacancy number and the job title in the subject line. Your covering letter should be no more than 1 standard A4 page in length and explain how you meet the essential and desirable position requirements and why you feel you would be a suitable candidate for this role. Your CV should be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer. The precision and style with which you present yourself in your covering letter and CV will be given significant weight in short listing candidates. Application with no proper subject (requested above), without the application form or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful for shortlisting.
Please note that applying without filling the standard job application form will result in disqualifying the applications to review for shortlisting.
Link for the Afghanaid Standard Job Application form: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vLmMCTTa7peZ-8Odm-L4xm_5ULr6nvRG
Note: Only local candidates within the same District & Province should apply.
Submission Email:
vacancies@afghanaid.org.uk
