Job Location: | Kabul |
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Nationality: | National |
Category: | Security |
Employment Type: | Full Time |
Salary: | |
Vacancy Number: | VA-2024-26 |
No. Of Jobs: | 1 |
City: | Kabul |
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Organization: | Afghanaid |
Years of Experience: | At least 5 years |
Contract Duration: | 12 months |
Gender: | Male/Female |
Education: | Bachelor’s degree |
Close date: | 2024-07-21 |
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 practices, 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.
Responsibilities:
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Education & Professional Qualification
A bachelor’s degree in a similar field, Political Science, or Military School is preferred, but candidates who have passed 12th Grade and possess five years of working experience will be considered.
Work Experience
At least 5 years of work experience as a security professional with NGOs, government, and UN agencies are preferred.
Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes
Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable Security Officer with strong initiative, judgment, and adaptability as well as excellent skills in communication, organization, interpersonal relations, decision-making, and reporting.
Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:
Key Skills and Competencies
Essential
Desirable
Other Information
Afghanaid’s core values are creativity, fairness, and honesty. Our staff are passionate about and proud to work at Afghanaid. Teamwork is fundamental to our standards and demonstrated by taking initiative, assisting others, and taking on additional responsibilities and 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.
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 Sunday 21th July 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