The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC opened the country program in Afghanistan in 1988. Our programs span the range from humanitarian relief to early recovery and development activities, focusing on child protection, education, economic wellbeing, health, and power. The IRC works in 10 provinces throughout Afghanistan, among which some of the most security volatile, and employs over 1000 staff.

Compliance with Policies:

• Compliance with the IRC WAY (our standards for professional conduct) is a responsibility shared by all involved in delivering on the IRC’s mission. We must abide by the IRC Way and Safeguarding Policies all the time. 
• The IRC has zero tolerance approach to the IRC Code of Conduct including safeguarding violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.

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 Centre 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 Centre 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 Centre 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

• Ability to travel to villages throughout relevant province districts and other provinces in which IRC operates, including but not limited.
• 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. 
• Other relevant duties as assigned by the FSP Manager to support the implementation and quality of the program.

• Education: 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.

For IRC- Afghanistan Internal Candidates:

(“ The IRC encourages employees to remain in a position for at least one year and be in good standing before applying for another position within the organization. if an employee is interested in a vacant position within the organization, he/she must inform his/her supervisor in advance before applying for a new position”)

(However, 1 year is a must to complete but to encourage IRCA employees somehow we are flexible who work in the current IRC position for at least 6 months or above and are given chance to compete for an opportunity in the organization)

All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/56782?c=rescue

applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post. IRC Afghanistan Country Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10, Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.