About Islamic Relief Worldwide
Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) is an international, non-profitable, non-governmental humanitarian relief organization with its head quarter in Birmingham, UK. It enjoys consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for International Red Cross and red Crescent Moments and NGOs in Disaster Relief. Islamic Relief has been working in Afghanistan for more than 23 years, providing emergency relief and implementing life-changing development projects for some of the most vulnerable people in the country. Islamic Relief set up our first Afghanistan office in 1999. Since then, IRA continued providing assistances in emergency relief, food security, livelihood, education, health, nutrition, shelter, orphan sponsorship, Ramadan and Qurbani programmes.
Job Summary
The incumbent will be responsible for Livelihood projects implementation and supervising, coordination with the relevant stakeholders, reporting the project issues/challenges, planning the project activities.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Overall management of the livelihood activities of the project with close coordination with the project coordinators and community mobilizers.
- Maintain close cooperation with community leaders and with the assisted population, as well as with all relevant stakeholders.
- Devising proper planning for implementation of livelihood portion of the project and follow up of day-to-day activities of all livelihood activities of the project.
- Responsible for ensuring that all participants in the livelihood part of the project have achieved targets of the program.
- Follow up of the project livelihood activities implementation in the field.
- Smooth Implementation of the prepared plan.
- Support the quality and control it means provided by the line manager and ensure the reporting about capacity gaps.
- Ensure a positive working environment and good team dynamics (solve out potential conflicts)
- Representation IRW vis-a-vis district authorities participate in official meetings to ensure maximum visibility.
- Prepare monthly quarterly, result based activity plan the livelihood activities of the projects.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly result based progressive report the relevant activities.
- Designing of trainings to the beneficiaries accordingly to the approved proposal of the projects.
- Preparing and coordinating daily plan and activities that contributes to the objective of the project.
- Appropriately planning for visibility of IRW activities in the field.
- Regular field visit from the project site
- Monitoring and supervision of the activities at the field level and sharing the findings with the provincial coordinator and relevant staff for improvement.
- Keep the perfect record, and filing system of the project activities, and do the proper data collection.
- Develop success stories for the monthly report and newsletter.
- Data collection, survey and small research from the project in the initial implementation step of the projects.
- Perform any other task assigned or required.
Job Requirements
Education:
• At least bachelor’s degree in agriculture and food security, BBA, Economics, Social Sciences, or any other relevant field.
• Master’s degree holders in the relevant fields are preferred.
Experience:
- At least 3 years’ work experience, agriculture, livestock, value chain, community development and any relevant fields.
- Experience in staff management, public outreach/ counselling, community mobilization, data collection and coordination with stakeholders
- Strong Command on Dari and English both written and spoken.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-ethnic team and take on diverse tasks.
- Working experience in the same local community, district, villages and familiar with society.
Language:
- Knowledge of the livelihood and food security context gaps and needs in Afghanistan.
- Team management skills.
- ability to effectively plan, set priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Results-oriented approach to delivering work priorities.
- Ability to convert lessons learned and experiences gained in the field to improve the quality of the project activities.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills in working with a multi-disciplinary team.
- Stress resilient, oral communication, structured, team and result-oriented.
- Flexible and with the ability to take initiative and inspire others.
- Ability to work both independently and as a team with less supervision.
- Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis, and production of reports.
- Ability or willingness to travel extensively in remote or inaccessible areas to conduct meetings and awareness raising.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and coordination skills.
- Strong report-writing skills.
- Understanding of IRW’s mandate.
Submission Guideline
Interested and qualified national candidates should submit a cover letter explaining their motivation and updated CV by clicking (Apply Now) option at the top of this page or below link.