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| Camp Management Officer -Community Center & Outreach (Subject to Funding) | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, |
| Categories | Other, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-11-07 | Close Date | 2022-11-19 |
| Vacancy No | VA-2022-0433 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | Till 31 Dec 2022 ( extendable) |
| Education | University degree (preferably in social sciences, e.g. education, political science, international relations, law, journalism, gender studies, human rights, etc.) | Experience | Minimum 3 years work experience in the field of community outreach and/or protection |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per NRC salary scale |
About Company
About Norwegian Refugee Council: The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organization helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country. Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks. NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability Job Overview: The purpose of the Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) Technical Assistant position is to assist in the day-to-day implementation of the ICLA project in Mazar Province as per the given annual and monthly action plan. This position will normally not entail management responsibility of staff. But will have focus of to conduct Information, counselling, legal assistance on Legal Identity Document (LID) and to help the ICLA officers in doing legal assistance, counselling on House, Land, Property (HLP) rights, Essential needs, Basic Employment Law Procedure (ELP), Capacity Building Trainings and Mentorship Programmes for duty bearers (formal and informal justice system).
Job Description
Generic responsibilities:
- Implementation of the different components of CM according to tools, SOPs, and annual work plan
- Contribute to regular activity progress reports
- Ensure proper completion and filing of all documentation (soft and hard copy, as required)
- Support CM Officers in day-to-day problem solving according to agreed procedures, priorities, and standards for the area of work
- Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection and/or assistance
- Visit the settlements on daily bases in order to provide information/counselling on rights, services, and durable solutions; to refer cases; and to disseminate information about NRC’s mandate
- Support CM Officer to coordinate with community leaders as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations and UN agencies to establish and maintain networks for access, referrals, and problem solving
- Contribute to collection of information about the situation and needs within the Community Centre area(s) to use for coordination and advocacy
- Ensure close co-operation with all NRC core competencies including through joint needs assessments and activities, and identifying beneficiaries where appropriate
- Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
Specific responsibilities:
- In Community Spaces and informal settlements, disseminate relevant and meaningful information, in order to enhance access to services and assistance.
- Train and support Settlement Committees to disseminate information as per the above
- Promote the Community Spaces among potential visitors and ensure information about services offered is properly communicated.
- Support Community mobilizers communication with communities and provide support on the issues to solve at field level.
- Visit community centre on daily basis and provide strongly support to the community centre activities.
- Support the establishment and follow-up Community Committees
- Deliver capacity building trainings to the community committees and ensure the transformation of the required knowledge
- Promote community participation by involving the community committee in decision making process
- Facilitate and encourage collaboration between other NRC Core Competencies and external service providers with the Neighbourhood Community committees
- Support coordination with potential service providers (governmental, non-governmental, private, etc.) to improve the provision of assistance and referral mechanisms
- Collect information regarding obstacles and constraints to beneficiaries’ access to services
- Facilitate monthly meetings I the Community Centre and host all the available site service providers
- Promote good relationship with the site service providers
- Collect required data on service providers and monthly update the service mapping tool
- Conduct Protection Monitoring FGDs, key informants and collect necessary data from the field.
- Conduct referrals for the most venerable displaced population to the available site service providers
- Facilitate the process of community project led at the community level
Job Requirement
Qualifications:
- University degree (preferably in social sciences, e.g. education, political science, international relations, law, journalism, gender studies, human rights,)
- Minimum 3 years work experience in the field of community outreach and/or protection role preferably with INGOs.
- Fluency in English and loccal languages.
- Political and cultural awareness, as well as good understanding of the displacement context in Afghanistan.
- Experience in community capacity building and training
- Previous similar experience preferred
- Experience from working in a humanitarian/recovery context, preferably in community services or community engagement and mobilization, protection, community capacity building, or related field
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
We Offer:
- Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
- Smart Phone with Top up Credit card with internet package on monthly basis.
- NRC will cover staff plus four (4) depended for medical insurance.
- Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.
Submission Guideline
Interested qualified candidates can apply by clicking on below link:
Note: All applicants are supposed to create and properly fill online CV profile in the NRC People site, example (personal, education, experience background etc..) and only attaching CV will not be enough.
We do not have to inform all the candidates. Only those who closely meet the job requirement will be informed.