Responsibilities and Tasks :

Job Responsibilities 01:   Project Development and Management

• Ensure that Project is planned, implemented, and managed with technical, logistical and administrative support.
• Ensure that beneficiary selection, verification, distribution of inputs to the beneficiaries are in accordance with approved beneficiaries list.
• Ensure that beneficiary trainings are completed at village level with support of other colleagues in proper way with agreed objectives.
• Ensure that project inputs are managed with all standards in different location.
• Ensure that proper documentations are maintained according to the ActionAid and donor requirements.
• Provide technical support to provincial team in the development and implementation of project activities
• Provide support to the project teams to develop and revise strategic plans to align with the country strategy.
• Accountable for oversight of monitoring, budget utilization, preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Assist Line Manager in responding to the enquiries of a technical nature from field staff, government, donor and other stakeholders.
• Assist in the development of project proposals in accordance with the donor guidelines, including the facilitation of inputs from the field.
• In collaboration with the Regional Manager / Sr. Project/ Provincial Coordinator, ensure enquiries from donors are responded to promptly and that good quality project reports are prepared and submitted on time. 
• In consultation with the Regional Manager / Sr. Project/ Provincial Coordinator, organize and facilitate meetings and workshops with relevant staff to guide Project direction and enhance Project performance.
• Undertake regular visits to field and project sites to support implementation, validate monitoring reports and assess capacity needs of field staff.

Job Responsibilities 02:   Project Quality Assurance:

• Effective project delivered with impact in line with agreed objectives
• Actively encourage and facilitate the documentation of good practice and lessons learned in the field and ensure that this information is shared throughout the country Project.
• Guide the process for identifying, reviewing or and developing indicators for measuring progress and impact of project interventions. Such performance indicators are to be developed in consultation with the relevant Project teams.
• Support and train Project and project staff members to undertake baseline, endline surveys, evidence-based assessments and both qualitative and quantitative data analyses to measure and document Project/project effectiveness in accordance with ActionAid guidelines 
• Ensure that data collection and analyses is shared with Project staff and include a focus on gender issues.
• Assist the Program Manager in preparing progress and final reports, together analyzing these in terms of problems and actions needed.

Job Responsibilities 03:   Coordination :

• Engage with government to appraise about AA’s work and to feed it into government planning processes: Represent AAA in GOA meetings at the provincial, District and village level to appraise them of AAA's work to garner support in smooth implementation of projects
• Engage intra and inter department coordination with finance, admin, logistics, IT, HR and MEAL for smooth and transparent implementation of the project.
• Attend to stakeholder meetings as advised by line manager
• Ensure compliance with any GOA requirements at the provincial, district and village level for effective implementation

Job Responsibilities 04:  as required :

• Represent AA Afghanistan; undertake all such actions that are required to further AA role in the country and the federation and undertake assignments as directed by the line manager.

Job Specification:

Education & Training:

Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Agri-business, Agricultural economics, or any other relevant fields with at least 5 Years of experience at the relevant level.

Experience:

5-7 years working experience in the Livelihood/Agriculture/Emergency field, preferably with INGOs, with at least 3 years in a senior position.

Technical Skills :

• Experience of working in Agricultural/Livestock/ livelihood programme with emergency context.
• Experience of working with various ministries and government departments to improve service provisioning, capacity building, policy advocacy processes.
• Experience and skills to handle implementation of complex and socially sensitive components of adolescent development, given the context of fragile socio-economic and security situation of the country.
• Knowledge and skills of facilitating agricultural value chains trainings.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills in English
• Excellent team building and participatory management skills.
• Abilities to undertake frequent field visits (80% time) for project progress follow up and monitoring.