Senior CORR Officer (Male) - Afghan National Only

Requisition ID: req51190

Job Title: Senior CORR Officer (Male) - Afghan National Only

Sector: Social Work

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Herat, Afghanistan

Work Arrangement: In-person

Job Description

Technical Quality

• Adhere to and proactively promote the women-, girl- and survivor-centred support approach, and the FSP guiding principles.
• Ensure at all times a women, girl and survivor-centred approach throughout all activities and services you and the team provide; this includes ensuring confidentiality of survivors, and respect for their wishes and decisions.
• Providing any supports need for conducting Dignity Kit Distribution and maintain all Dignity kits distribution documentation.
• Manage team during assessment of Clients for dignity kits distribution.
• Provide technical support to outreach officers during conducting FGDs, safety audit, community mapping and awareness sessions.
• Providing budget report of grants, spending plans, purchase request and procurement plan.
• Provide weekly report to FSP Manager.

Community Outreach and Risk Reduction Support

• Adhere to the FSP guiding principles throughout all FSP outreach and engagement interventions. This includes ensuring confidentiality of survivors, and respect for their wishes and decisions.
• Work with the FSP team to develop and conduct regular safety audits, Focus Group Discussion, Community mapping to ensure safest possible programming for women and girls.
• Work with FSP team to ensure that women and girls’ safe spaces and programming are responding to the evolving needs of community.

Staff Supervision and Development

• Conduct a weekly scheduled team meeting for all staff at the Center to discuss programming progress, successes, challenges, quality and areas for improvement, adaptation, or change; feedback to the Snr FSP Program Officer and put in place an action plan.
• Conduct weekly check-in meetings with the incentive workers and volunteers to ensure they are supported in their roles and have what they need to run their activities; support on recruiting these positions for the center.
• Directly supervise the family Support Center Programming and ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, communicating clear expectations.

Monitoring and Reporting:

• In cooperation with the Family Support manager, continuously monitor activities, assessing their relevance to the needs, priorities and interests of women and adolescent girls at community level.
• Keep close track of indicators on a monthly, and flag to the FSP-manager when programs is behind of activity implementation.

Coordination

• Conduct ongoing focus group discussions with women and adolescent girls to inform program activities; and working with the FSP team in the Center to ensure response to the evolving needs of women and girls and their communities.
• Maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders and other implementing partners.

Complete monthly activity reports, according to guidance provided by the WPE manager.

Other

• The ability to travel to villages throughout Herat and provinces in which IRC operates, including but not limited to Kabul and Nangarhar
• The ability and willingness to travel throughout Herat province during emergencies to provide essential FSP CM services.
• Complete attendance sheets for relevant activities and contribute to monthly activity reports.
• Maintain positive coordination and relationships with partners and other sector staff. 
• Perform any other job related duties as assigned by the FSP Manager to support the implementation and quality of the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social science, or related field.
• 3-4 years of experience in Community engagement ,women and girls related programming and supervisory role.
• Clear understanding of the impact and dynamics of FSP on women and girls
• Direct experience in providing basic counselling, psychosocial support, and delivering services to women and girls.
• Experience providing training and mentoring to others.
• Experience in supervising staff, activity design, planning and monitoring, and overseeing direct services.
• Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients.
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting.
• Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect, empathy, and professionalism.
• Knowledge and experience with community outreach and mobilization
• Familiarity with principles of monitoring and evaluation; experience in writing brief narrative reports and data reporting.
• Basic computer skills and familiarity with Word/Excel
• Fluency in Dari, Pashto, and English
• Ability of raise PR, spending plan, procurement plan and skills of budget management.