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Supervisor/Community Liaison - Shelter- Herat (Afghan Nationals Only)
Country Afghanistan Province Herat,
Categories Engineering, Type Full Time
Post Date 2024-09-04 Close Date 2024-09-16
Vacancy No VACBW-2024-028 Gender male female
No Of Jobs 2 Contract Duration 31-Dec-2024
Education Graduated from engineering (civil or architecture department) faculty. Experience Have at least 1-2 years of work experience in humanitarian sector or other construction context
Organization Opportunities for you Salary Based on the 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.

Job Description

Purpose of the Job:

All NRC employees and casual staff are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s core values: dedication, innovation, inclusivity and accountability. These attitudes and believes shall guide our actions and relationships. 
In this role the community mobilizer will work closely with the Shelter technical assistants, Casual Workers and the Officers to ensure that projects are implemented with as much community engagement as possible and to ensure that the needs identified are relevant to the community needs.

 

Role and responsibilities

  • Manage and implement the planned activities related to emergency shelters for the target communities of the project.
  • Participate in relevant external and internal project evaluations and/or needs assessments.
  • Provide the primary raw information for the documentation of lessons learned and success stories on the projects.
  • Continuously assess shelter needs in the community and undertake gap analysis for development of shelter activities.
  • Design and support inclusive shelter solutions that ensure access of all regardless of their age, gender and disability.
  • Apply conflict sensitive management tools in shelter programming
  • Provide support to Shelter/NFI distribution activities and perform with Logistics spot checks for NFI quality control.
  • Organize different awareness session regarding safe shelter in the community.
  • Undertake field visit to monitor and review the program performance and share the findings with the team
  • Support monitoring and evaluation and reporting team of the project to document Shelter activities.
  • Perform any other duties assigned by the Project Manager

Job Requirement

Competencies

Competencies are important in order for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:

 

  1. Professional competencies

 

  • Candidate should be Diploma in Civil Engineering
  • At least 1-2 years working experience in relevant field, preferably experience of work with any agency.
  • Must be honest, well-mannered and neat in appearance.
  • Ability to remain focused under pressure and to work long hours both day and night shifts.
  • To be afghan citizen. 
  • Computer literature competency needed.
  • Good in both spoken and written in English and Pashto languages.
  • At least 1 years relevant working experience in designing and construction of shelters in disaster recovery programs.
  • Personal Qualities:
  • Act at all times in accordance with the Code of Conduct
  • Able to work in a team and respects opinions of others
  • Honest and high level of integrity
  • Assist the organization on occasion, in times of national, international, local emergencies or major disasters

 

 

  1. Behavioral competencies

 

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies and the following are essential for this position:

  • Planning and delivering results
  • Communicating with impact and respect
  • Working with people
  • Coping with change

 

Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

  • The Job Description
  • The Work and Development Plan
  • The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template
  • The End-term Performance Review Template
  • The NRC Competency Framework
 

Submission Guideline

How to Apply:

Interested qualified candidates are encouraged to send their CVs along with a cover letter to below mentioned e-mail. Please make sure to clearly state the VACBW-2024-028 in the subject line of your email.

Submission email: atif.behrad@nrc.no

 

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