Under the direct supervision of the Lead Construction Management Engineer and guidance of the Team Lead - Urban Component, the Community Liaison Senior Associate (internally referred to as: Project Management Support - Senior Associate (Community Liaison)) coordinates the day-to-day community liaison activities across all projects under the engagement, in coordination with relevant team members. The Community Liaison Senior Associate will support the Lead Construction Management Engineer and Head of Project in liaising with the local community and local contracting and labor associations to ensure the project can be implemented in line with the agreement and as per schedule and scope, addressing the day-to-day concerns of the community, updating on project’s progress, project’s plans, etc. The Community Liaison Senior Associate will be based in Kabul and is expected to travel across all project sites, as required.

Facilitate community targeting 

• Identify target communities in poor neighborhoods. Target communities will be constituted by Community Development Council clusters or a Gozar Assembly.

• Organize and facilitate meetings with target communities to verify whether the project’s Entry Criteria for Access are fulfilled.

• Liaise and collaborate with Facilitating Partners, organizations which will help target communities to meet the Entry Criteria for Access.

Facilitate sub-project selection 

• Facilitate the smooth liaison between the project and community representatives and other stakeholders listed under the project documents recommended by the Head of Project, by maintaining regular contact and networking.

• Organize and facilitate meetings with target communities in order to identify subprojects.

• Ensure target community leaders clearly understand the objectives of the project, the permissible menu for subprojects, beneficiary criteria, and roles and responsibilities. 

• Administer voting procedures and ensure adequate levels of transparency.

• Clearly communicate to target communities which subproject will be implemented. 

Monitoring and reporting

• Maintain detailed and accurate record of meetings including agendas, meeting minutes, follow-up/action points. Details of meetings held or canceled should also be maintained.

• Deliver documents to all the interested parties and similarly receive documents from both external and internal parties.

• Ensure that follow up of document approvals by concerned authorities is done consistently, in a timely manner, and ensuring that the Project Management Team is updated as required.

• Ensure that communities at construction sites are kept abreast of the project developments and communication channels remain open with the communities.

• Respond to community concerns by ensuring that they are brought to the attention of the Contractor and UNOPS project management team and facilitate the process of resolving the issue.

• Keep and maintain the record of labor force utilization under each sub-project.

• Assist UNOPS in the identification of potential implementation problems and bottlenecks.

• Report to the Project Management Team on a daily and weekly basis on community issues and the project’s performance in relation to those issues.

• Keep up with the weekly and daily developments of the project.

• Mediate issues between the community members and the project staff.

• Forward questions about the project from community leaders and residents to appropriate government authorities and the Project Management Team.