Camp Management Assistant - Cash Grant Afghanistan Mazar

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 3 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 3 (NRC) contracts.

Purpose of the Job:

The Camp Management Community Outreach Assistant will be based in North region, Kunduz Province supporting implementation of NRC’s UDOC project, which is based on Camp Management approaches and methodologies. The project aims to improve the protection and assistance response to displacement-affected communities by establishing mechanisms to enhance:

• Communication with Communities: Sharing information with and receiving feedback from displaced and vulnerable host communities
• Community Engagement: Participation of affected communities alongside local stakeholders in the humanitarian and development response
• Support to Coordination: Efficient, effective, and inclusive coordination of services at local level, involving a range of stakeholders (authorities, civil society, NGOs, private sector, etc.).

There are three main pillars in the project for enhancing communication, community engagement, coordination, and Protection:

• Community Centers established in areas hosting large numbers of displaced households
• Community Committees working in neighborhoods of high displacement
• Outreach Teams who work in Community Centers and visit affected neighborhoods.

The CM assistant (cash grants) is mainly responsible to manage the cash grant component of this project. He/she will be responsible to ensure smooth and high quality implementation of emergency cash or multi-purpose cash assistance, specifically which means identification of the beneficiaries for the cash grants, review and analysis of the cases, distribution of the grants and monitoring of the assistance provided.

Caution: This role is national, only applicants from Afghanistan can be considered.

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Generic responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines.
• Ensure quality implementation of CM-UDOC project cash grants according to tools, SOPs, and annual work plan.
• Contribute to regular activity progress reports.
• Ensure proper completion and filing of all documentation (soft and hard copy, as required).
• Ensure close co-operation with all NRC core competencies including through joint needs assessments and activities, and identifying beneficiaries where appropriate
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need of protection and/or assistance.
• Support CM Officer to coordinate with community leaders as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations and UN agencies to establish and maintain networks for access, referrals, and problem solving.
• Implement the portfolio of cash grants tasks and activities as delegated by the CM officer/ team leader in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements according to plan of action.

Specific responsibilities:

• Visit the community on daily basis to meet the community committee and other families in the community and collect information.
• Identify the most venerable who have faced sudden shocks and are eligible cases for the CM cash grants provision.
• Collection of accurate and proper information for each potential case for cash grants assistance.
• Filling out the forms for the potential eligible beneficiaries for cash grants provision.
• Conduct referrals for the cases who being rejected for the provision of cash grants.
• Proper follow up of the beneficiaries who will be assisted with the cash grants.
• Make sure the potential beneficiaries for the cash grants provision are selected based on the pre-set criteria’s and SOPs in place.
• Make sure distribution of the cash grants are being processed as per beneficiary’s preference.
• Promote good relationship with the site service providers
• Any other related responsibilities tasked by supervisor.

Generic professional competencies:

• Experience from working in a humanitarian/recovery context, preferably in community services or community engagement and mobilization, protection, community capacity building, or related field
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Fluency in English Language – spoken and written

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• University degree (preferably in social sciences, e.g. education, political science, international relations, law, journalism, gender studies and human rights.)
• Minimum 2 years work experience in the field of community outreach and/or protection preferably with UN or INGOs
• Fluency either in Pashto and Dari, or both written and verbal
• Political and cultural awareness, as well as good understanding of the displacement context in Afghanistan.
• Experience in community capacity building and training
• Previous similar experience preferred.

Behavioural competencies

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

We Offer:

• Monthly Salary based on NRC Afghanistan Salary Scale.
• Smart Phone with Top up Credit card with internet package on monthly basis.
• NRC will cover staff plus four (4) depended for medical insurance.
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labour Law.