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Project Coordinator (Re Announced)
Country Afghanistan Province Nangarhar,
Categories Agriculture, Type Full Time
Post Date 2024-09-16 Close Date 2024-09-24
Vacancy No Project Coordinator 1042-Nangarhar Gender male female
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration Till 31 December 2024
Education Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Agri-business, Agricultural economics, or any other relevant fields with at least 5 Years of experience at the relevant level. Experience 5-7 years working experience in managing the Livelihood/Agriculture/Emergency field, preferably with INGOs, with at least 3 years in a senior position.
Organization Opportunities for you Salary As Per ActionAid Salary Scale

About Company

About ActionAid Afghanistan: ActionAid is a non-governmental & non-profit international organization working towards achieving a world without poverty and injustice in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. ActionAid started its activities in Afghanistan in 2002 and was registered in Ministry of Economy of Afghanistan as non-governmental international organization “INGO”. ActionAid-Afghanistan committed itself a long-term work with poor and excluded sections of the society through the Human Rights Based Development Approach, WASH, and livelihood programs in multiple provinces of Afghanistan

Job Description

The Project Coordinator works under direct supervision of team leader / regional Coordinator for delivery of CBARD -ALL projects in the province of Nangarhar focusing on food security and Livelihoods intervention delivery of the Country Strategic Plan of ActionAid Afghanistan.

01:   Project Development and Management:

  • Ensure that Project is planned, implemented, and managed with technical, logistical and administrative support.
  • Ensure that beneficiary selection, verification, distribution of inputs to the beneficiaries are in accordance with approved beneficiaries list.
  • Ensure that beneficiary trainings are completed at village level with support of other colleagues in proper way with agreed objectives.
  • Ensure that project inputs are managed with all standards in different location.
  • Ensure that proper documentations are maintained according to the ActionAid and donor requirements.
  • Provide technical support to provincial team in the development and implementation of project activities
  • Provide support to the project teams to develop and revise strategic plans to align with the country strategy.
  • Accountable for oversight of monitoring, budget utilization, preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
  • Assist Line Manager in responding to the enquiries of a technical nature from field staff, government, donor and other stakeholders.
  • Assist in the development of project proposals in accordance with the donor guidelines, including the facilitation of inputs from the field.
  • In collaboration with the Regional Manager / Sr. Project/ Provincial Coordinator, ensure enquiries from donors are responded to promptly and that good quality project reports are prepared and submitted on time. 
  • In consultation with the Team leader and Specialist organize and facilitate meetings and workshops with relevant staff to guide Project direction and enhance Project performance.
  • Undertake regular visits to field and project sites to support implementation, validate monitoring reports and assess capacity needs of field staff.
  • Ensure the demonstrate the project results as per the plan meeting the project deadlines

02:   Project Quality Assurance:

  • Effective project delivered with impact in line with agreed objectives
  • Actively encourage and facilitate the documentation of good practice and lessons learned in the field and ensure that this information is shared throughout the country Project.
  • Guide the process for identifying, reviewing or and developing indicators for measuring progress and impact of project interventions. Such performance indicators are to be developed in consultation with the relevant Project teams.
  • Support and train Project and project staff members to undertake baseline, endline surveys, evidence-based assessments and both qualitative and quantitative data analyses to measure and document Project/project effectiveness in accordance with ActionAid guidelines 
  • Ensure that data collection and analyses is shared with Project staff and include a focus on gender issues.
  • Assist the Program Manager in preparing progress and final reports, together analyzing these in terms of problems and actions needed.

03:   Coordination :

  • Engage with government to appraise about AA’s work and to feed it into government planning processes: Represent AAA in GOA meetings at the provincial, District and village level to appraise them of AAA's work to garner support in smooth implementation of projects
  • Engage intra and inter department coordination with finance, admin, logistics, IT, HR and MEAL for smooth and transparent implementation of the project.
  • Attend to stakeholder meetings as advised by line manager
  • Ensure compliance with any GOA requirements at the provincial, district and village level for effective implementation

04:  As required:

  • Represent AA Afghanistan; undertake all such actions that are required to further AA role in the country and the federation and undertake assignments as directed by the line manager.

Job Requirement

Experience

  • 5-7 years working experience in managing the Livelihood/Agriculture/Emergency field, preferably with INGOs, with at least 3 years in a senior position.

Technical Skill:

  • Experience of working in Agricultural/Livestock/ livelihood programme with emergency context.
  • Experience of working with various ministries and government departments to improve service provisioning, capacity building, policy advocacy processes.
  • Experience and skills to handle implementation of complex and socially sensitive components of adolescent development, given the context of fragile socio-economic and security situation of the country.
  • Knowledge and skills of facilitating agricultural value chains trainings.
  • Excellent communication and reporting skills in English
  • Excellent team building and participatory management skills.
  • Abilities to undertake frequent field visits (80% time) for project progress follow up and monitoring.

Submission Guideline

If you have the expertise to take on this exciting opportunity, please apply online by sending your CV and motivation cover letter to jobs.kabul@actionaid.org up to Sept 24, 2024. Please clearly indicate Project Coordinator 1042-Nangarhar

in the subject of your email, otherwise, your application will not be considered.

ActionAid Afghanistan welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity.  Although all applications will be considered on their individual merit, suitably qualified women candidates are especially encouraged to apply.  

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short-listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. ActionAid Afghanistan will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time. 

ActionAid is an equal opportunity employer.

Women are highly encourge to apply.

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