Protection Assistant Afghanistan Kandahar

Contract

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

Caution: This Position is for Afghan National Only

Purpose of the Job

The purpose of the Protection Assistant Position is to assist in the day-to-day implementation of assigned Protection activities as defined by Country Office’s strategic and policy frameworks. In particular, the position holder will be assisting the Protection team with implementation and monitoring of field activities focused on civilian self-protection, community engagement, protection integrated programming with NRC’s other core competencies. Regular activities will include facilitating community committee meetings, conducting capacity development sessions for community committees on protection risk reduction approaches and action plans, consolidating data for context analysis, mobilizing community members for protection activities, identifying facilitated referrals, conducting accompaniments, and supporting advocacy initiatives. The position holder will be spending most of his/her weekly time in the field locations supporting project implementation and will be reporting to the Protection Officer and the Protection Coordinator.

You can read more about this position at Job Description & NRC Grade Structure

Generic responsibilities

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Support the implementation of protection programs according to the agreed upon work plan and program scope
• Prepare and develop program reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the program
• Liaise and collaborate with relevant local authorities, community representatives and other key stakeholders
• Ensure timely collection and sharing of information
• Assist with administration and logistic arrangements required for implementation and monitoring of activities
• Development of holistic and needs based programmes, which includes close coordination with NRC’s other core competencies

Specific responsibilities

• Conduct community outreach and engagement with local authorities, community representatives and other relevant stakeholders based on project implementation priorities as communicated by management;
• Conduct actors and service mapping and development of referral pathways;
• Consolidate information for in-depth context analysis in order to support programming;
• Implementation and monitoring of field activities with a focus on civilian self-protection through a community-based approach;
• Working with community structures—NRC committees, other NGO committees, and existing community structures—on protection risk reduction plans and protection risk identification;
• Capacity building of community members, school personnel and students on protection related topics (PRR, DRR, EWER, Contingency planning and other issues);
• Conduct regular follow up meetings with community people on the progress of the action plans;
• Record keeping of the all the trainings and beneficiaries’ data in relevant tracking sheets and databases;
• Ensure all the documentations are maintained regularly.
• Undertake data collection to inform relevant internal and externally-commissioned protection assessments, risk analysis, needs assessments;
• Ensure the integration with NRC’s other CCs;
• Referral of protection and other humanitarian issues to relevant actors, and stakeholders;
• Weekly reporting on activities and consistent planning for field-based activities;
• Data management and recording keeping maintaining confidentiality;
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualification

• At least 1-2 years’ previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area. This is not limited to NGO or UN experience. This may include civil society organizations, social work, journalism, teaching and/or researching in relevant fields like social sciences, and activism.

Education

• Bachelor of any Social Science, Social Work, Journalism, and/or Humanities

Languages

• Pashto
• Dari
• English (Basic Knowledge of English Language)

Behavioral competencies

• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Handling insecure environment
• Working with people

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.
• One time Eid Bonus per year
• Leave and Holidays accordingly Afghanistan Labor Law.