Community Outreach and Risk Reduction Officer - Herat, Afghanistan - International Rescue Committee

Description

Requisition ID: req46386

Job Title: Community Outreach and Risk Reduction Officer ( Afghan Nationals Only )

Sector: Women Protection & Empowerment

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Herat, Afghanistan

Work Arrangement: In-person

Job Description

Technical Quality

• Adhere to and proactively promote the women-, girl- and survivor-centred support approach, and the GBV guiding principles.
• Ensure at all times a women, girl and survivor-centred approach throughout all activities and services you and the team provide; this includes ensuring confidentiality of survivors, and respect for their wishes and decisions.
• Support the FSP team in conducting focus group discussions and other activities that gage protection risks for women and girls.
• Provide and reinforce appropriate safe and confidential referrals of survivors of GBV to case management.
• Work with the FSP team to conduct regular safety audits and ensure safest possible programming for women and girls.
• Support distributions of risk reduction items such as dignity kits.

Community Outreach and Risk Reduction Support

• Conduct daily, community outreach paired with one other team member to build and maintain relationships with communities, including local leaders, different groups, and stakeholders, in order to foster an environment of support to women and girls and survivors of GBV.
• With the technical support from the Prevention and Risk Reduction Senior Officer and FSP Senior Response officer, develop appropriate messages on the types of services and support available to survivors of GBV, where these services are available, how communities can support survivors to access services, and the consequences of GBV and the benefits of seeking care and support.
• Adhere to the GBV guiding principles throughout all GBV outreach and engagement interventions. This includes ensuring confidentiality of survivors, and respect for their wishes and decisions.
• Work with the FSP team to develop and conduct regular safety audits, Focus Group Discussion, Community mapping to ensure safest possible programming for women and girls.
• Work with FSP team to ensure that women and girls safe spaces and programming are responding to the evolving needs of community.

Staff Supervision and Development

• Conduct a weekly scheduled team meeting for 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 regular 1 to 1 meeting with each of your direct-report staff community volunteer to reflect on work, communicating clear expectations.
• Create monthly site teamwork plans with the Center team; review these on a weekly basis to check process and adjust if necessary.
• 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.
• Directly supervise the family Support Center Programming and ensure timely completion and submission of monthly timesheets, communicating clear expectations.
• Monitor volunteer care and well-being and approve and manage all leave requests to ensure adequate coverage
• Through close work with the Family Support Programmings Family Support Center Sr. Prevention officer and Family Support Programmings Manager, ensure that all new staff are provided with the core FS needed training package and identify opportunities for further training
• Assist with the recruitment of program staff and incentive workers

Monitoring and Reporting:

• In cooperation with the Family Support Senior Prevention officer, continuously monitor activities, assessing their relevance to the needs, priorities and interests of women and adolescent girls at community level.
• Keep close track of indicators on a monthly, and flag to the FSP-Senior Prevention officer when programs is behind of activity implementation

Coordination

• Actively participate in the mandatory weekly team meeting and the individual supervision sessions with the FSP. Senior. Prevention 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

• The ability to travel to villages throughout Herat and provinces in which IRC operates, including but not limited to Kabul and Nangarhar
• The ability and willingness to travel throughout Herat province during emergencies to provide essential GBV CM 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

• University degree in social work, humanities, other social science, or related field
• 2 to 3 years of experience managing GBV programming.
• Clear understanding of the impact and dynamics of GBV 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 GBV survivors.
• 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

Compliance with Policies

• Compliance with the IRC WAY (our standards for professional conduct) is a responsibility shared by all involved in delivering on the IRCs mission. We must abide by the IRC Way and Safeguarding Policies all the time.
• The IRC has zero tolerance approach to the IRC Code of Conduct including safeguarding violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.
  

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