Emergency Response Officer ( Afghan National Only )

Job Description

Technical Quality

The Emergency Protection Response officer will be based in Herat/Nangarhar with extensive travel to all IRC field offices where more support will be needed to give to other staff.

- Ensuring that FSP (Family Support Program) activities are women, girl and client-centred, and adhere to best practice and Protection guiding principles, flagging any concerns to the Sr. officer in a timely manner. - Ensure at all times a women, girl and Client-centred approach throughout all activities and services you and the team provide in Family Support center (FSP); this includes ensuring confidentiality of survivors, and respect for their wishes and decisions. - Providing services like assessment of women’s needs; provide emotional support, basic, crisis counselling (and in some contexts further individual counselling); safety strategizing and risk assessing; development of action plans; support in pursuing services and support; safe, confidential, and appropriate referrals in-line with the formal Protection referral pathways. - Providing discretionary assistance (such as, dignity kit items) if in-line with internal protocols and eligibility criteria to meet most urgent needs.

Psychosocial Support

- Adhere to the protection guiding principles throughout all the PSS interventions for women and girls. - Identify concerns related to and support adherence to protection referral protocols and protection guiding principles and bring these concerns to the FSP Sr. Officer. - Maintain detailed and confidential case files, ensuring they are carefully and safely stored in the in-line with the protection Protocol, data protection protocols, and safety and ethical standards on protection information management. - Where available and of quality, work in close collaboration with protection service providers to ensure women and girls have safe, discrete, and confidential access to said service providers - Conduct assessments with adolescent girls, their caregivers, and other stakeholders to identify key concerns, needs, and opportunities. - Regularly advocate for the provision of life-saving medical care including family planning. - appropriate referrals in-line with the formal protection referral pathways; providing discretionary assistance (such as dignity kit items) if in-line with internal protocols and eligibility criteria to meet most urgent need - Provide age-appropriate PSS, including assessment of women’s needs; Provide emotional support, basic, crisis counselling (and in some contexts further individual counselling); safety strategizing and risk assessing; development of action plans; support in pursuing services and support; safe, confidential.

Staff Supervision and Development

- Attend the all staff at the Center to discuss programming progress, successes, challenges, quality and areas for improvement, adaptation, or change; feedback to the Snr FSP Program Officer and put in place an action plan. - Conduct weekly check-in meetings with the incentive workers and volunteers to ensure they are supported in their roles and have what they need to run their activities; support on recruiting these positions for the center. - Ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives, probation reviews, and annual performance reviews the regular staff of FSP-Center facilitators and support staff. - Assist with the recruitment of incentive workers.

Monitoring and Reporting:

- In cooperation with the Family Support Senior officer and FSP Manager, continuously monitor activities, assessing their relevance to the needs, priorities and interests of women and adolescent girls. - Keep close track of indicators on a monthly, and flag to the Family Support Senior officer and FSP-Manager when programs is behind of activity implementation. - Using the program data and indicator tracker to update the weekly activities and share with the Assistant/Sr. Program Officer to consolidate all site activity data; meet submission deadlines as requested. - Ensure that information and files are carefully and safely stored in the center in-line with the, data protection protocols, and raise concerns to the Snr FSP Program Officer as needed.

Coordination

- This position is roving and the intitled person must have the ability to travel to villages throughout all provinces including where IRC operates, - Actively participate in the mandatory weekly team meeting and the individual supervision sessions with the FSP. Senior officer. - Conduct ongoing focus group discussions with women and adolescent girls to inform program activities; and working with the FSP team in the Center to ensure response to the evolving needs of women and girls and their communities. - Maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders including community leaders and other implementing partners. - Complete monthly activity reports, according to guidance provided by the WPE Response Officer.

Other

- This position is roving and the intitled person must have the ability to travel to villages throughout all provinces including where IRC operates, - The ability to travel throughout all IRC operating filed offices in province during emergencies to provide essential protection services - Complete attendance sheets for relevant activities and contribute to monthly activity reports - Maintain positive coordination and relationships with partner and other sector staff. - Other relevant duties as assigned by the FSP-Manager to support the implementation and quality of the program

Qualifications

Qualification and Requirements:

- This position is roving and the intitled person must have the ability to travel to villages throughout all provinces including where IRC operates, - Education in social work, humanities, other social science, or related field - Clear understanding of the impact and dynamics of on women and girls - Demonstrated interest, enthusiasm, and commitment to working with women and girls, and their rights, safety, empowerment, and improving their access to resources and services - Direct experience in providing basic counselling, psychosocial support, case management, and delivering services to women and girls - Experience providing training and mentoring to others - Experience in supervising staff, activity design, planning and monitoring, and overseeing direct services - Demonstrated understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients - Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting - Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect, empathy, and professionalism - Knowledge and experience with community outreach and mobilization - Familiarity with principles of monitoring and evaluation; experience in writing brief narrative reports and data reporting - Basic computer skills and familiarity with Word/Excel - Fluency in Dari, Pashto, and English - At least 3-4 years of work experience in the same or similar position