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| CC Referral focal point (Couple) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Nangarhar, |
| Categories | Program, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2024-08-21 | Close Date | 2024-08-26 |
| Vacancy No | KBL_050 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 6 Months (Extendable) |
| Education | University degree in MD, Law or Political science | Experience | At least 2 years experience of referral mechanism with INGOs/NGOs |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | According to Acted's Salary Scale |
About Company
About Acted: Created in 1993, Acted is an international non-governmental organization pursuing a dual mandate of emergency response and development interventions in 40 of some of the world’s most vulnerable countries affected by conflicts, disasters, or socio-economic hardship. With a team of 7,000 national staff and 400 international staff, Acted implements 500 projects a year to support more than 20 million beneficiaries, notably in hard-to-reach areas. Acted goes to the last mile through programs and approaches that look beyond the immediate emergency towards opportunities for longer-term livelihood reconstruction and sustainable development. Guided by the motto “Think Local, Act Global” and its 3Zero –Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, and Zero Poverty – strategy, Acted puts local territories at the center and provides tailored support to local needs. Acted Afghanistan: Acted is working in 20 provinces in Afghanistan around the country. These provinces are affected by natural and man-made disasters. Acted provides relief and emergency assistance to vulnerable populations affected by displacements, conflicts, or natural disasters, in the fields of agriculture, shelter, wash, and food security
Job Description
Job purpose:
The Referral focal point (RFP) will be part of the CC team in each location and will be responsible for protection monitoring, case referral and follow-up as required. The RFPs will ensure protection concerns are quickly identified, and that protection is mainstreamed through all Acted’s and partners activities within the areas of intervention.
The RFPs will collaborate closely with the humanitarian actors in the field and will be involved in identifying or creating existing protection referral mechanisms at the site level. In addition, He/She will be tasked with training CICs members on protection issues and provide on-site mentoring of committee members on community-based protection mechanisms. Further, the RFPs will be chiefly responsible for conducting safety audits in Acted’s areas of intervention. Finally, He/She will be
Overall Responsible to conduct daily assessment for the Emergency cases under the FIB project , deploying the data into master database, and ensure gathering supporting documents and flag the urgent cases ensuring the BNFs will have receive a dignified Protection E-Cash assistance.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assess protection needs and community assets to identify risks and vulnerabilities including those related to gender and age. Develop concrete strategies / initiatives to reduce these risks involving and building upon assets within the affected population in the sites and strengthening the capacity of displaced communities and other vulnerable groups to protect themselves.
- Establish protection referral mechanisms to existing protection partners.
- Initiate close coordination with relevant community stakeholders to conduct awareness raising sessions in relation to protection issues.
- Ensure the data accuracy and quality in Referral and E-cash databases.
- Ensure that all data entered in the referral database and other relevant forms/documents is in English (translated from Dari/Pashto to English if needed).
- Conduct a proper archiving of the referral forms (internal and external), following the ACTED data protection policy.
- Conducting consistent field visits to monitor protections problems and concerns of vulnerable people and groups in the targeted area.
- Be responsible for legal counselling and follow-up of protection cases with relevant service providers.
- Provide trainings and in capacity building as well as dissemination of awareness / understanding of protection issues Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and refugee and human rights law with local / international NGOs government authorities and UN agencies.
- Concentrating on strengthening the communication with other humanitarian organization to recognize different services for referral.
- Liaise with other agencies/NGOs/government bodies/donors to ensure coordination implementation of common standards in the field and consideration of protection issues in assistance programs. May be required to facilitate protection working group(s).
- Prepare periodic reports on protection issues and activities.
- Conducting E-cash monitoring case, Door-to-door assessment and ensuring that the most urgent and in need BNFs are surveyed, and assisted accordingly.
- Report to the Project manager/Project officer on trends, delays, or challenges in terms of internal and external referrals, including regarding gaps in service provisions.
- Produce monthly and quarterly analytical reports on referrals and any other data analysis as per the line manager request
- Identity and assist IDPs and host community members threatened by eviction
Job Requirement
- University degree in MD, Law or Political science
- An understanding of the basic principles of humanitarian work, human rights protection and the needs of internally displaced persons and returnees in Afghanistan.
- Interest in humanitarian work and human rights ability and willingness to learn.
- At least 2 years experience of referral mechanism with INGOs/NGOs
- Ability to work with communities, respecting the dignity of the most vulnerable, and
- behave IDPs, returnees and local community members equally without any kind of discrimination, in accordance with the principles and standards of ACTED.
- Fluent in English, and local languages (speaking/reading/writing)
- Computer skill (MS offices for the database creation and presentation)
- Experience with including marginalized populations in the program, especially PSNs and women headed household
- Experience in protection programming
Submission Guideline
Those who fulfill the above-mentioned criteria should send their updated CVs to the below submission email:
Kindly mention the Vacancy number, and position tittle in the subject line or your application may not be considered.
Please do not send heavy size documents (i.e., Tazkira, Education documents, work certificates)
Only shortlisted candidates will be called for the next stage of recruitment.
No CV will be considered after the closing date.
Local couple candidates/Mahrams who have the relevant work experience are strongly encouraged to apply and will be given preference for this position.
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Acted is an equal opportunity employer and does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. All applications are free for all candidates, and no one should require any payment or compensation during the recruitment process.