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

• Ensuring that Family Support programs activities are women, girl and survivor centred.
• Supporting the Family Support Centres officers to continuously monitor and assess risk across all their services, activities, and sites of operations.
• Conducting regular weekly in-person field visits and provide remote support to oversee the successful implementation of Family Support activities in the designated area of operation, which may include Family Support centres (FS-Centres), camps, and mobile locations.
• Meet regularly with the other Family Support programming Snr Officer, Family Support programming Manager and Family Support programming Deputy Coordinator to discuss programming progress, successes, challenges, responsiveness of our program and putting in place an action plan and follow up.

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• Always ensure a women, girl and survivor-cantered approach throughout all activities and services you and the team provide in the Family Support centres spaces; this includes ensuring confidentiality of survivors, and respect for their wishes and decisions.
• Support the mandatory weekly team case management meeting and individual supervision sessions with FS-centres officers/Case worker Team.
• Ensure the Family Support Programming are using functional, survivor-cantered referral pathways and conducting safe, confidential, and appropriate referrals in line with best practice!
• Identify concerns related to and support adherence to protection referral protocols and protection guiding principles and bring these concerns to the Family Support Programming’s Manager.
• Complete monthly activity reports, according to guidance provided by the Family Support Programming’s Manager.

Staff Supervision and Development

• Directly supervise and mentor FS-Centres Officers and ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, probation reviews, and annual performance reviews.
• Monitor staff care and well-being and approve and manage all leave requests to ensure adequate coverage.

• Through close work with the Family Support Programming’s Deputy Coordinator and Family Support Programming’s Manager, ensure that all new staff are provided with the core Family support training package and identify opportunities for further training.
• Assist with the recruitment of program staff and incentive workers.

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.
• Keep close track of indicators on a monthly, and flag to the FSP-Manager when programs is behind of activity implementation.

Budget Management:

• Update procurement plans for your sites of operation monthly ahead of procurement review meetings, send complete procurement plans to the FSP- Manager.
• Ensure estimated prices, supply chain procedures and specifications of items on procurement plans are reviewed by Supply Chain and Finance teams during monthly procurement review meetings.
• Develop spending plans based on procurement plans and submit to the FS- Manager
• Raise PRs for program activities and materials, follow up on PRs, their tracking and completion.
• As requested by FS- Manager, prepare internal reports within agreed deadlines, including feeding into donor reports in time with deadlines, ensuring the accuracy of the information provided.

Coordination:

• Serve on coordinating bodies and represent IRC in relevant stakeholder meetings at national and provincial level such as the Regional GBV Sub-Cluster.
• Collaborate with the Humanitarian Access team, security focal points, and FS- Manager to ensure smooth access for program implementation cooperation with local stakeholders and the ability to implement programming in multiple locations and in line with humanitarian principles!
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with relevant with NGOs, UN agencies and government authorities.

Other

• The ability to travel to provinces in which IRC operates, including but not limited to Kabul and Nangarhar
• Other relevant duties as assigned by the Family Support Manager to support the implementation and quality of the program.

• Bachelor’s degree social work, humanities, other social science, or related field
• 3 to 4 Years direct experience in providing basic counselling, psychosocial support, case management, and delivering services to women and girls GBV survivors.
• 3 to 4 years’ experience providing training and mentoring to others.
• 3- 4 years’ Experience in supervising staff, activity design, planning, and monitoring, and overseeing direct services.
• Clear understanding of the impact and dynamics of GBV on women and girls
• Demonstrated interest, enthusiasm, and commitment to working with women and girls, and their rights, safety, empowerment, and improving their access to resources and 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

Three to five years of experience managing GBV programming.  

(“ 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/53284?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.