Protection Manager

Date Posted: Oct 30, 2022

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Location:

Balkh
Company:

Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC)
Type:

Contract
Shift:

First Shift (Morning)
Career Level:

Experienced Professional
Positions:

1
Vacancy number:

AWSDC04/2022
Experience:

3 Year
Gender:

Any
Salary:

As per Company salary scale
Degree:

Bachelors
Apply Before:

Nov 03, 2022

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About Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC)

The Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC) founded in 1999 is a national non-governmental organization (NGO), dedicated to the promotion and protection of the rights of women in Afghanistan and supporting Afghans to live in peace. AWSDC key thematic focus areas are Peacebuilding, Women Rights/GBV, Livelihoods, WASH and Humanitarian Response. The organization geographical areas are Kabul, Kunduz, Faryab, Herat, Balkh and Samangan Provinces. The organization since the startup of first wave of COVID-19 has provided humanitarian assistance to nearly 65,000 COVID-19 affected men, women and children under its geographical areas. Likewise, AWSDC is one of Humanitarian Actors that provides protection, WASH and Emergency Shelter and None food items to vulnerable Afghanistan across the country.

AWSDC in response to the humanitarian crisis is scaling up its interventions to serve more people through provision of life savings assistance, GBV, WASH, Food/None Food Items. Recently AWSDC has aligned its strategic priorities to the address the acute deficits of affected population through provision of protection services, WASH, Food Assistance and NFIs in Afghanistan.

AWSDC is in the process to recruit Protection Project Manager to support the project team in the implementation of Women Protection project in Balkh Province.

Job Description

About the project:

AWSDC is in the process to hire competent staff to implement Women Protection project in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh Province. The focus of the project is to establish and run two community friendly centers form women and girls skills and recreational activities including referral pathways, provision of GBV core principles and PSS firs aid training to the project team and donor implementing partners, conduct dialogue sessions with community leaders and increase community awareness on women and girls protection and the type of services provided by AWSDC under the project.

Job Requirements

Position Summary:

The position holder (Protection Manager) will be responsible for a team of 8 social worker, 2 MHPSS Counsellor, 2 safe space supervisors, access focal point and admin/finance officer with the key responsibility to plan, implement and support the project team in the implementation of the planned activities under Women Protection in Mazar-e-Sharif. The staff will be placed in AWSDC Provincial office in Mazar-e-Sharif with frequent travel to the two established community centers in Mazar-e-Sharif.

Job Responsibilities

Coordinate the project activities in the target Province with stakeholders including line departments of de-facto authorities, Afghanistan protection clusters, GBV sub-cluster, child protection sub-cluster, UNHCR, and other protection actors.
Prepare the daily, weekly and monthly plans in compliance with the project workplan, outputs, activities and targets
Work on inter-agency referral pathway to ensure the cases are timely referred to service providers.
Organize trainings on the protection core principles and referral pathways to UNHCR Protection and Livelihood partners
Organize trainings on psychosocial first aid trainings for UNHCR Protection and Livelihood partners in coordination with UNHCR and MHPSS specialized organizations as a trainer.
Ensure and facilitate timely and confidential referrals to appropriate services based on the GBV SC referral pathway SOPs and referral card Collect and consolidate the number of referrals made by UNHCR partners who undergone the trainings.
Finalize and contextualize messages on the topic and referral pathways for awareness raising
Supervise awareness raising/information sessions capitalizing on the existing UNHCR/partner interventions (groups of beneficiaries for livelihood program, PSS program, CBPM etc.)
Organize Safety Audits in coordination with UNHCR and multi-sectoral partners and consolidate a report.
Provide training for those who conducts Safety Audits.
Analyze the findings and regularly report to UNHCR, and other stakeholders as deemed necessary.
Establish the Safe Space and supervise activities at Safe Space through identifying the priority areas for empowerment/recreational/educational activity and modality (static or mobile) and propose activities at Safe Space
Any other tasks assigned by the project Program Development Specialist/Program Director.

Required Qualification and Experience:

Minimum of 3 years of experience in project management in the area of Protection, preferably experience in protection intervention for women and girls, in the field and in complex environment.
Minimum of 3 years of supervising the team that consists of social worker/community mobilisers.
Experience in social work, case management and/or community engagement.
Excellent knowledge on GBV principles and inter-agency guidelines and tools
Excellent understanding of the local contexts, familiar with both local languages ( Dari and Pashto) and skills in stakeholder management
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Solid Computer skills and competency in word, Excel as a minimum

Skills Required

Submission Guideline:

Interested candidates are requested to submit cover letter and CV with the subject line ‘AWSDC Protection Manager VA # xxx’ by email to contact@awsdc.org.af Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Note:

Only shortlisted candidates who meet the above job requirement will be contacted

AWSDC provide equal opportunity both for male and female. Female candidates are highly engaged to apply.

Submission Email:

contact@awsdc.org.af

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