AWEC is a non-political, non-profit, woman-headed national organization established in 1991 by a group of educated Afghan women in exile, who rallied together to address the lack of facilities for Afghan refugees in Islamabad and eventually Peshawar, in Pakistan. AWEC has always been involved in advocacy and awareness-raising for women and children’s rights while providing services to those who frequently fall through safety nets. In recent years, one of AWEC’s core activities has been to support women through mobilizing Afghans, from local communities to political elites, towards the goal of reducing and eventually eliminating violence against women.

Our vision in AWEC is “an inclusive and just society with sensitized and responsive public and private sector, where all women and children have access to opportunities to improve their quality of life in order to realize their full potential”.

AWEC has zero tolerance approach to the AWEC Code of Conduct including safeguarding, SH, and Fraud violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.

Position Objective

The center managers will be based in Nuristan and Laghman provinces and will directly report to the Project Officers; the center managers will manage center activities and provide support, resources, and consulting services to the visiting local communities’ women and girls.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with women and girls in the centers to identify their needs, interests, and priorities, and where possible, adapt activities according to these to ensure activities offered are culturally appropriate and meet their needs
• Conduct, prepare, and help plan and organize activities with women and adolescent girls
• Adhere to and promote GBV guiding principles
• Know and understand the GBV referral pathway
• Share with the women and girls care options are available at centers
• Maintain positive coordination and relationships with partner and other sector staff
• Ensure supplies/resources for women centers and other program activities are requested promptly and are efficiently utilized
• Track participation numbers of women and girls attending centers activities
• Manage overall center activities, resources, tools, and spaces
• Assist and support the Project officer with training management, information collection, and reporting.
• Strong ability to search findings and report on time
• Perform any other duties as required 

Qualifications:    

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Psychology/ Gender or Women's Studies/ Social Science/ Social Work or other related studies and professional experience in counseling

Experience & Skills:      

• At least 2-3 year of experience.
• Communication skills (oral & written) in Dari / Pashto
• Selected candidate undergoes PESA background check.
• Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect, empathy, professionalism, knowledge, and experience with community outreach and mobilization, data collection, narrative and statistical reporting.

Interested candidates are requested to send their applications along with their CVs to the attention of following address recruitment@awec.info

Kindly mention vacancy number and position title in your email's subject line, otherwise you won't be shortlisted. All shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for test/Interview.

“Being committed to diversity & equal employment opportunity we highly encourage females & people living with disabilities to apply, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, language, religious sect.”