Citizen Organization for Advocacy and Resilience, COAR (formally Coordination of Afghan Relief) CoAR is an Afghan, independent, nonpolitical, non-sectarian, and non-for profit organization established in 1989 and registered formally with the ministry of Economy. COAR actively bridging between donors of humanitarian aid and rural Afghan communities severely affected by almost four decades of wars,
internal conflicts, natural and manmade disasters, and complexities. COAR endeavors to reach the unreached and embark on strengthening local coping mechanisms to enable communities to find durable local solutions to their local problems and encourage self-reliance and sustainability. COAR works with
communities to proactively utilize their own scarce and limited resource the most efficient and effective way and discourage a culture of aid dependency, except in times of disasters and extreme poverty. COAR has maintained the access of beneficiaries to basic services with strict observation of humanitarian principles of Independence, Neutrality and Impartiality in practice.

Key Responsibilites and duties

• Work with community to identify education needs, create work plan, assuring that community members are supporting the education program and School Shura
• Establish and maintains good working relations with SMS members, community elders and DED to strengthen community mobilization process.
• Plan capacity building trainings and events and lead the training delivery to target SMS members.
• With guidance from AQBE PMU office, plan and facilitate district level exchange visits among SMSs;
• Contact, orient, and mobilize respective parents and communities on education related topics and work with communities on Early Grade Reading and learning specific related activities.
• Facilitate participatory planning and development of School Improvement Plans (SIPs), approval and implementation process.
• Engage in conflict resolution and peace education at the school community level and liaise between school/community, project IPs and education offices at the district levels.
• Conduct campaigns and trainings for raising awareness about Education, especially for girls.
• Maintain and develop regular contact and mutual understanding between AQBE and community representatives in their respective areas in order to have effective communication.
• Work with communities to ensure safety and security of children and school facilities.
• Develop and implement all community mobilization activities, and make sure that the community level stakeholders actively participate in the process of project cycles management. 
• Assist project community engagement and M&E teams in data collection and reporting
• Any other task assigned by supervisor
• Conduct trainings SMS/ CEC members, schools’ headmasters/ principles.
• Facilitate social audits on school level.
• Facilitate Exchange visits amount School Management Shuras SMSs.
• Facilitate school safety assessment and conduct follow up visits to monitor the progress.   

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in education, social sciences or any other any relevant fields.

Experiences: 

• At least 3 years of related experience in community mobilization, community participation and conflict resolution and involvement of community and parents in community level activities, preferably with an international organization and Ministry of Education.

Computer Skills:

• Familiar with required office packages

Language Proficiency: 

• Proficient in Pashto and Dari languages with good understanding and writing of English.

Other Skills:

• Knowledge of the community structure, dynamics and development and community mobilization approach.
• Knowledge of the value of education in Islam, the child development and the current trend of education in Afghanistan.
• Ability to regularly travel to the target school and communities.
• Ability to effectively conduct and manage community level meetings and exchange visits.
• Have good communication and coordination skills both community and Schools level.
• Be familiar with the culture of the communities.
• Experience of working in formal education system.
• Excellent Pashto and Dari written and speaking language skills.
• Ability to prepare and submit timely report.

Qualified candidates may send their CVs include a Cover letter to the COAR Human resource department to this email address:cv@coar.org.af
CVs received after the closing date (12-13-2024) will not be considered.
Applications are reviewed on an active basis and after receiving sufficient eligible applications we may process the position before the closing date. 
the subject line of the email must be (Community Mobilizer VN05) otherwise your CVs may not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the Written test and Interview.
COAR is an equal opportunity to the employer for all ethnic groups and both genders are urged to apply
COAR has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).

Note: Locally Applicants are highly preferred.