Generic responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with NRC policies, Core Competency tools, handbooks, and guidelines.
• Prepare periodic progress reports and other documents.
• Promote and share ideas for technical improvement.
• Promote the rights of displaced persons in line with the advocacy strategy.
• Support program design and operationalization by providing updates on contextual changes.
• work closely with the field offices to provide tailored support, as well for capacity building at the local level.

Specific responsibilities

Access incident tracking and analysis

• Gather access incident information from area access focal points and support its input into a country-wide access tracker. Support the Country Access Coordinator maintaining this tracker and support the production of monthly humanitarian access updates.

Actor mapping and analysis

• Supporting access focal points maintain regular updated provincial actor mappings and analyses to help NRC ensure it has a strong understanding of stakeholders with influence over humanitarian access. In doing so, ensure country access colleagues are informed of changes at the provincial level that might impact national level access engagements.

Access Engagement

• Support the area manager and field office coordinator to develop area and local access strategies engagement plans to help improve the structure of NRC’s engagement.
• At the request of the area manager, undertake specific access engagements with the authorities, including supporting the programme teams.
• In consultation with AM, leverage support from country access adviser and senior management for local negotiation if necessary.
• If opportunities arise, participate in and support area-based access coordination groups.

Liaison Support 

• Maintain activity resumption matrix up to date and work closely with area level coordination groups and NGOs to understand where females are able to report to office, and how the agreement was reached.
• Provide technical support for programme leads and field office coordinators for introduction of project and project verification letter.
• Serve as a liaison focal point with authorities for programmatic issues as assigned by the area manager.

Generic professional competencies:

• Undergraduate degree in management, political science, international relations, or relevant topic, and (or religious studies equivalent to a university degree).
• Minimum 3 years' of working experience in a humanitarian access related role.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the humanitarian response and the humanitarian access environment in Afghanistan
• Experience in conducting humanitarian negotiations (direct and indirect)
• Experience in supporting data collection and analysis activities, preferably in the humanitarian sector.
• Experience working independently, but with strong personal drive and communication skills needed to operate effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to draft clear and concise briefing papers.

• Fluency in written and spoken Pashto and Dari is essential.
• A good level of written and spoken English is essential.
• Good comprehension of computer programs specifically in MS. Office

Behavioral competencies

• Working with people
• Analyzing
• Planning and delivering results
• Communicating with impact and respect

We Offer

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• Mobile Phone with Top up Credit card.
• NRC will cover staff plus four (4) depended for medical insurance.
• Pension Allowances on monthly basis.
• On time Eid bonus in yearly basis.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labor Law.