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| Case Management Officer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Bamian, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2023-04-25 | Close Date | 2023-04-27 |
| Vacancy No | 41423 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | Till end of Dec 2023 ( Extendable) |
| Education | Bachelor Degree | Experience | 2 Years relevant |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | Based on IRC Salary Scale 8B |
About Company
About IRC (International Rescue Committee): The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. The IRC opened the country program in Afghanistan in 1988. Our programs span the range from humanitarian relief to early recovery and development activities, focusing on child protection, education, economic wellbeing, health, and power. The IRC works in 10 provinces throughout Afghanistan, among which some of the most security volatile, and employs over 1000 staff.
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
Specific Duties:
- Ensure the functionality of the case management system and oversee delivery of high-quality case management [BC1] in accordance with SOPs and global minimum standards. Protection assistance and services will prioritize persons experiencing high vulnerability, such as women and girls, children, socio-economic hardship, persons with disabilities and serious medical conditions, elderly persons, persons exposed to explosive hazard risk.
- Support and guide case management teams in their day-to-day work ensuring adherence to key protection principles.
- Provide guidance to teams on identification of protection risks and appropriate response, such as protection cash, individual protection assistance (IPA), and referrals, through one-to-one guidance or case review meetings as needed. Ensure that caseworkers are familiar with the criteria for identifying cases for protection cash and individual protection assistance. Oversee and ensure timely response and follow up protection cases.
- Conduct regular meetings with case workers on lessons learned and best practices and provide feedback to the Sr. PRoL Officer
- As relevant, collaborate with agencies and stakeholders in provision of assistance and services
- Ensure capacity for teams to receive and make external referrals, with access to service mapping that is updated regularly.
- As needed, coordinate with the protection monitoring officer and community-based protection officer in identifying protection risks and trends. Protection monitoring teams and Community Protection Committees may make referrals to PRoL Case Management for protection assistance and response. The Case Management Officer will provide guidance to other PRoL teams on internal referral process.
- Contribute to creation and dissemination of key protection messages including rights and available services
- Participate in, and as needed organize regional/provincial protection meetings/workshops and provide feedback to Sr. PRoL Officer on discussions and outcomes.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders including community leaders NGOs community-based organizations and other IRC sectors to enhance cooperation and coordination
- Coordinate with PRoL Officers in other locations on project implementations.
- Under the supervision of the Sr. PRoL Officer and PRoL Manager, monitor program budget and expenditure.
- Provide regular progress reporting on cases to Snr. PRoL Officer and PRoL Manager for donor reporting.
- Support Information Management Officer by providing data on PRoL cases and trends as requested perform other duties as requested.
Job Requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. social work, sociology, psychology, law)
- Approximately 2 years of relevant experience, professional technical experience, including 1 year implementing humanitarian protection programs in emergency/conflict contexts
- Experience in regular report writing
- Experience with protection monitoring and case management preferred
- Experience in designing and implementing surveys or assessments preferred
- Good communication skills including ability to gain trust and build relationships with new communities
- High standard of spoken and written Dari and Pashto (depending on location) and English
- Basic computer skills including Microsoft Word
Submission Guideline
For IRC- Afghanistan Internal Candidates:
(“ The IRC encourages employees to remain in a position for at least one year and be in good standing before applying for another position within the organization. if an employee is interested in a vacant position within the organization, he/she must inform his/her supervisor in advance before applying for a new position”)
(However, 1 year is proposed based on the approved policy but we encourage IRCA employees to remain up to 6 months and above to be given chance to compete for an opportunity in the organization)
All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:
https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/41423?c=rescue
applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process.
Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post. IRC Afghanistan Country Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10, Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.