With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

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Job Description:

Job-purpose

The primary responsibility of this position is to support the implementation of Agriculture, Livestock, Cash, Vocational Skills Training (VST), CBDRM, and all Income Generating Activities projects at the community level. The role also involves assisting in the planning, organization, implementation, and monitoring of all FSL sector intervention at the field level. Key Responsibilities include; A) Project Implementation Support: Facilitate the delivery of project activities in the field, ensuring alignment with overall program goals and objectives. B) Community Engagement: Identify priority needs within the community, sensitizing and mobilizing communities through effective communication and outreach to foster participation in project activities, and sharing community preferences and new ideas to office. C) Relationship Building: Establish and maintain strong relationships with community leaders, field level local government authorities, and other relevant stakeholders to promote collaboration and support for project initiatives. D) Beneficiary Selection: Ensure a transparent and equitable selection process for project beneficiaries, aligning with established criteria and community needs. E) Training and Capacity Building: Attend in self capacity building initiatives, and provide training to beneficiaries in agriculture, livestock management, and vocational skills, CBDRM, financial literacy and any other interventions equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance their livelihoods, and resilience. F) Assistance Delivery: Oversee the delivery of cash assistance, agricultural, and other inputs to beneficiaries, ensuring timely and efficient distribution in accordance with SoPs and guidelines in consultation with communities. G) Monitoring and Support: Conduct routine monitor of the FSL interventions, providing ongoing support and guidance to beneficiaries to ensure successful implementation, and escalate any challenges that required next level attention. H) Documentation and Reporting: Ensure proper documentation of project activities and maintain accurate records, conducting follow-ups with beneficiaries to assess progress and outcomes. Collaboration with other Sectors Field Teams: Work collaboratively with other field-based staff and sector-specific teams to ensure integrated approaches and share best practices across project areas.

Community engagement & Beneficiary Training

§  Assist in sensitisation of local government structures, communities and traditional authorities on the targeting criteria and identification and registration of the beneficiaries for the delivery of assistance.

§  Organise the inception and community sensitisation meetings and trainings

§  Conducting awareness raising and messaging for affected beneficiaries on the program

§  Participate in weekly/monthly zonal meetings

§  Raise awareness on the use of community feedback mechanisms.

§  Facilitating coordination with authorities for all activities

§  Coordinate with health sector field staff in identification of the vulnerable beneficiaries

Timely delivery of the assistance

§  Developing monthly detailed program activity implementation plans for the interventions

§  Conduct the registration of targeting families, ensuring that the data is collected and is recorded appropriately

§  Conducting awareness raising and messaging for affected beneficiaries on the program

§  Work together with the officers on the development of distribution plans

§  Help oversee delivery of assistance and helping ensure the resolution of any problems

Data Collection and Reporting

§  Contribute in conducting of FGDs, door to door surveys and survey for the baseline and end line and other survey.

§  Responsible for all required technical aspects on the ground on projects and ensure that implemented as required

§  Collect harvest date throughout the appropriate data collection tools

§  Collect any feedback received during the communities meeting and field visits and report to line manger timely

§  Provide monthly and weekly plans and reports

§  Develop success stories of the project’s interventions

§  Documentation of best practices for learning purposes and increase program visibility

§  Ensure all new employees understand safeguarding standards, codes of conduct, and organizational responsibilities.

§  Monitor safeguarding practices, provide technical support, and ensure compliance at the community level through undertaking field visits.

§  Build staff and partner capacity on safeguarding and ethical behaviour.

§  Support lead facilitators in planning and delivering safeguarding (SFG) and PSEA training sessions for staff, partners, and the community.

§  Act as the first point of contact for safeguarding concerns or reports at the field level and ensure timely, confidential referral to the Safeguarding Coordinator using approved reporting channels.

§  Maintain up-to-date knowledge of referral pathways and support access to survivor-cantered services where appropriate.

§  Participate in periodic safeguarding coordination meetings or calls, sharing updates, challenges, and lessons from the field

§  Adhere to WV accountability standards

§  Ensure full compliance with WVI’s Accountability Frameworks, Safeguarding Policies, Code of Conduct, and donor requirements by actively participating in AAP mandatory trainings and integrating accountability mechanisms into all project activities.

§  Conduct meaningful AAP community engagement and sensitization during field visits, including distribution of CFM cards to beneficiaries and facilitating awareness sessions on the feedback and complaints mechanism throughout project implementation.

§KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or

Certification

• At least 12th grade qualification in social studies
• Bachelor of Agriculture, Livestock, Economics are preferred

Required Professional Experience

• At least 2 years of experience in social mobilization related to FSL

Required Language(s)

• Dari, Pashtu

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

• Ability and willingness to travel domestically
• Position will be based in one of the Zonal Offices but with 80% of field activities

Position’s physical requirements

• Being in good health and physical conditions, and able to travel

Preferred Experience,  Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

• Humanitarian context knowledge and experience.
• Bachelor of relevant fields outlined above is a plus 
• Experience in documentation and reporting
• Experience working with community leaders (Community Based Structures)
• Experience in adult learning methodology and monitoring of training activities
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Experience in conducting training sessions
• Experience in input distribution.
• Ability to work as part of a field team.
• Very good communication with communities and local authorities.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to exhibit exemplary lifestyle as interpreted in specific local cultural context
• Able to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural context, stressful environments and with limited resources
• Cross cultural sensitivity, flexible views, emotional maturity and physical stamina.
• Demonstrable experience in child protection, child rights
• Interpersonal, management and conflict resolution skills.
• Results oriented and good team-player
• Good computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), internet use and Lotus Notes.

Note:We thank all applicants for their interest in joining our organization. Due to the volume of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stage of the recruitment process, we regret that we are unable to provide individual notifications or feedback to applicants on the outcomes of their interviews and tests and only the candidates at the final stage of interviews will be informed of the outcome.

Applicants and our staff are expected to uphold the highest standards of integrity throughout the recruitment process. Any form of canvassing, undue influence, or attempts to directly or indirectly influence the selection process will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

Please note that we do not respond to recruitment or interview-related inquiries by telephone or WhatsApp.

All recruitment-related inquiries should be directed to: [email protected].

We strongly discourage applicants from contacting individual staff members or hiring managers regarding the status of their applications or during the selection process.

If any applicant has concerns regarding the fairness, integrity, or conduct of the recruitment process, such concerns may be reported through the World Vision Integrity and Protection Hotline:  worldvision.ethicspoint.com  where they will be reviewed in accordance with the organization's established procedures.

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