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 Social Workers will be based in Nuristan and Laghman provinces and will be directly reported to the Project Officers; the Social workers under the supervision project officer will engage communities, beneficiaries, and stakeholders and ensure effective mobilization and engagement of local communities effectively in the program.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Social worker is required to work according to the plan and instructions of the program
• Ensure effective community mobilization
• Support M&E officer while visiting the field and provide the required information
• Conduct survey in targeted districts and villages
• Assist in establishing safe space centers if required
• Establish working relationships with communities and local government offices in the project target areas
• Coordinate project activities with target communities
• Conduct awareness sessions with the local community
• Coordinate with relevant government departments at the local level to facilitate the administrative processes
• Facilitate meetings of project staff with local government authorities and community people
• Ensure field feedback of beneficiaries
• Organize meetings with local leaders beneficiaries and collect their feedback and share the report with the team leader
• Work with a cooperative attitude and keep a high standard of working quality
• Generate timely reports on all their relevant activities
• Register cases of violence against women meted out to women and girls visiting the center for legal consultation Documentation of counseling records for each of the visitors in both soft and hard formats
• Provide the visitors with legal consultation and services. Identify, set up, and strengthen legal referral mechanism
• Referral of cases of grave concern to advanced legal consultation centers or courts/attorney general office when and where required and necessary
• Follow up and referral of cases of girls and women experiencing violence Develop and maintain a legal register and collect success stories on cases
• Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for clients
• Represent clients/victims in court or before government agencies – if necessary
• Any other tasks being assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Social science, law, or Sharia is preferred

Experience& Skills: 

• At least 2-3 years of experience in social work, legal issues, case management, reporting, mobilizing communities, and organizing training
• Fluent in speaking and writing Pashto and Dari languages
• Computer literate
• Honest, Motivated, tolerant, active and well mannered
• Strong Interpersonal & communication
• Selected candidate undergoes PESA background check.

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.”