World Vision International (WVI) began emergency relief operations in Afghanistan in 2001 by addressing the urgent needs of children and families affected by natural disasters and decades of conflict. More than a decade later, World Vision Afghanistan’s (WVA) programs have expanded to development sectors such as health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, and education, empowering women to engage in civil and social change through interfaith partnership.

WVA targets the most vulnerable in its interventions; including children, women, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), and returnee refugees, as well as the most impoverished and marginalized families. These priorities have been chosen to contribute to our Goal of: “Improved survival and well-being of Afghan girls and boys, building the foundations for a better future for Afghan children and their communities.” 

Our work is well established in Herat, Badghis, Ghor, and Faryab provinces in the western region of Afghanistan. We work closely with all levels of society including children, parents, teachers, village councils, religious leaders, ministries, provincial departments, and other national and international agencies.

Job Description:

• Facilitate vulnerability assessment with MEAL unit to identify the vulnerable households for food assistance.
• Actively participate in beneficiary selection, beneficiary verification and beneficiary registration with MEAL unit
• Contribute in supporting of WVA HIRO in receiving and inputting the beneficiary data into the LMMS, issuing beneficiary ration cards, generating BDLs and reports.
• Contribute in developing food assistance plans, take the necessary approvals from various units including project manager, security manager and zone manager, and submit to cash, food and GIK unit for further process.
• Contribute in conducting of gender-sensitive market assessment of target areas for food distributions to identify existing markets and women’s market access.
• Contribute in conducting of HHs needs assessment to review DIALS.
• Implement all Food distribution-related activities under Food security and livelihoods and Nutrition sectors guidelines.
• Coordinate closely with the project manager to ensure timely implementation of the project activities and get readiness for timely distribution of food for the target communities.
• Ensure that all food distribution process and activities are in line with WVA endorsed SOPs and procedures.
• Ensure that proper community development practices and “Do No Harm” practices are incorporated and upheld throughout the implementation of the project.
• Provide regular updates to FSL technical and liaison officer, Cash and GIK unit on all project activities including beneficiary selection, verification and food distribution.
• Travel regularly to all project sites to ensure proper implementation and quality of project activities and prepare food distribution plan based completion percentage of the work.
• Contribute in coordination meeting with community elders and line departments on food distribution activities.
• Maintain excellent working relations with project stakeholder, partners and other contractors.
• Raise and submit PRFs for selection of food distribution contractor and contribute in selection of contractor based on request of project manager.
• Ensure project activities are in compliance with government rules and regulations.
• Submission of monthly food requests for project operations
• Ensure proper filling in a way that can be audited.

• Other tasks assigned by the project coordinator.

• Reporting planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and supervision
• Submission of monthly food requests for project operations
• Responsible to provide daily reconciliation report and monthly distribution report to project manager, FSL and Cash Food and GIK units. 
• Ensure food distributed to the selected beneficiary based identification cards (LMMS or Paper cards) according to project criteria.
• Prevent and report for any fraud, corruption of allocated distributions to project beneficiaries.
• Provide supervision to CBFs and any guidance need for the performance.

Other

• Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.

Adhere to WV accountability standards.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or

Certification

• At least two years of experience working with NGOs in Cash, Food and Voucher Programing in an emergency context.

Required Professional Experience

•    A Bachelor degree in accounting, management, marketing, agriculture and /or social science.

Required Language(s)

Fluency in English, Dari and/or Pashto, both written and spoken

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

This position is based in Herat with travel to districts

Position’s physical requirements

Being in good health and physical conditions.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

Knowledge and ability and cash and voucher programing.

• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to travel to all districts of targeted Province (where applicable).
• Strong monitoring skills.
• Communication skills and knowledge of local communities.
• Familiarity with context of targeted province (where applicable)
• Good report writing skills.
• Ability to engage with different stakeholders and partners in the project site.
• Interpersonal, management and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to manage the cash distribution challenges

Submission Guideline:

The application closing date is 27-Dec- 2024. Qualified applicants can apply for the position by filling in the online application form in WV Career portal. applicants can also attach their CV and cover letter in the online system. Please note that only the applications received through the online portal will be considered for this position.

Applicants can login to WV online application system by copying and pasting the following link into their

Submission Email:

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