Emergency Response Officer - Afghan Nationals Only

Crisis & Emergency Response

Overview

Oversee field-level activities and ensure program quality assurance.

You have:

• Associate/Technical or Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum three years of experience working with local or international NGOs, with two years doing emergency programming.
• Experience in managing the collection, recording, and analysis of data.
• Demonstrated experience in building networks and working with government bodies and communities.
• Good management skills, report writing, and administrative skills.
• Familiarity with the local province’s context, culture, traditions and its sensitiveness.
• Good knowledge of MS office (mainly Word and Excel).
• Strong communication skills; fluency in Dari and Pashto required, and good knowledge of spoken and written English desired.
• Ability to cope with stress, work under difficult circumstances, and meet deadlines.
• Flexibility and willingness to relocate at short notice, outside the normal area of operations, and for short periods of time (the position is 70% field base).

Job Description

· In charge of overseeing day-to-day field-level activities, ensuring these are completed according to standards.

· Conduct regular visits to project implementation sites for quality assurance and engage with communities as needed.

· Ensure proper reporting and monitoring of program activities in coordination with M&E, including drafting of project reports.

· Lead and participate in needs assessments and distributions as required. Draft and compile assessment and distribution documents for all caseloads.

· Lead referrals of vulnerable beneficiaries to additional service providers when relevant and as possible (internal and external stakeholders).

· Supervise, guide, and support ER Assistants on their daily tasks, in line with established work plans.

· Ensure project-related issues and challenges are addressed in a timely manner by informing line manager and relevant departments

· Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including community leaders, government departments, NGOs, community-based organisations and other IRC sectors to enhance cooperation and coordination

Perform other duties as requested by supervisor.

Qualifications

· Associate/Technical or Bachelor’s degree required. Minimum three years of experience working with local or international NGOs, with two years doing emergency programming (ex: winterization, NFI, and Shelter).

· Experience in managing the collection, recording, and analysis of data.

· Demonstrated experience in building networks and working with government bodies and communities

· Good management skills, report writing, and administrative skills

· Familiarity with the local province’s context, culture, traditions and its sensitiveness

· Good knowledge of MS office (mainly Word and Excel)

· Strong communication skills; fluency in Dari and Pashto required, and good knowledge of spoken and written English desired

· Ability to cope with stress, work under difficult circumstances, and meet deadlines

· Flexibility and willingness to relocate at short notice, outside the normal area of operations, and for short periods of time (the position is 70% field base)

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Added 4 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org