Job Location: Nangarhar
Nationality: National
Category: Management Nonprofit-Social Services
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: As per CIC/SC Salary Scale
Vacancy Number: VA-2024-004
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Torkham
Organization: Children in Crisis/Street Child
Years of Experience: 5 Years
Contract Duration: 28/02/2025
Gender: Male/Female
Education: Bachelors
Close date: 2024-03-26
About Children in Crisis/Street Child:
Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.
Job Description:
This role reports to the project manager. This role shall be ultimately responsible to lead the provincial project team to ensure that all children are safe in school and learning.
The Provincial Coordinator is responsible to manage, organize, control and lead on the design, management, implementation and monitoring of provincial programs. We expect this role to ensure the success of the programs by meeting its objectives/outcomes and goals as set out clearly in the project proposal.
The Provincial Coordinator must focus and pay serious attention to the financial management and tracking of the projects such as expenditures, and expenses, and keep effective communication with the finance and operations teams. He/she should attend all the meetings conducted by the governmental authorities in field level, community and other stakeholders and represent on behalf of CIC/ SC.
In addition, this role is expected to oversee, CIC/SC partners programs in the region.
Generic Responsibilities:
A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values.
Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures.
Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally.
Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role.
Specific Responsibilities:
To Ensure the success of the project, meeting its objectives, outcomes and aims as set out in the project proposal.
Team Supervision, managing and support a team of MHPSS Counsellors, CFS Facilitators, Medical welfare office, case worker and other subordinates.
Prepare weekly and monthly work-plans and report on their activities.
To Ensure the project team is in regular coordination and communication with all project stakeholders, Community, related sectorial departments and up to district level officials.
To Oversee project expenditure in field level and ensure compliance against donor reporting requirements in coordination with the project manager.
To coordinate with Project Manager and operation departments on related activities.
To Support the M&E Officer and ensure each project has an up to date and effective M&E plan in accordance with the project log frame and indicators.
To ensure effective reporting mechanism is in place in coordination of the project manager.
To maintain existing positive working relationships with relevant sectorial departments in field level.
To represent CiC/ SC in field level and attend provincial coordination meetings, working groups and CPAN meetings.
To ensure all subordinates are well aware of whistleblowing and Safeguarding policies and are oriented on reporting uncertainties as per the organization guidelines and policies.
Any other relevant task given by line manager.
Job Requirements:
Experience and Knowledge:
A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Education, Business administration, law and political science, social science and/ or any other relevant field.
At least five years of experience in managing and implementation education and/ or child protection programs. Proven experience in the successful implementation of the emergency project is a plus point.
Skills and Abilities:
Experience in crisis context of the country.
Fluency in both local languages.
Able to work in a diverse cultural environment.
Excellent team working and communications skills.
Conflict resolution skills.
Interpersonal skills.
Ablility to work under strict deadlines.
Familiarity with the political and social context of the country.
Submission Guideline:
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (03 pages maximum) and Cover Letter (01 page maximum) to the following email address hr.afg@street-child.org not later than the deadline. Please indicate the position title and Vacancy Number in the e-mail subject line. Any application without position title and vacancy number will not be considered. Also, please do not send additional documents.
Interested and qualified candidates should also fill Children in Crisis Recruitment Form (MANDATORY) through below link:
https://forms.gle/Vwm8XhfYkQSMMRB49
Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.
FEMALE APPLICANTS ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!
NOTE: CANDIDATE’S APPLICATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THE CHILDREN IN CRISIS/STREET CHILD RECRUITMENT FORM OR CV IS NOT SUBMITTED.
Submission Email:
hr.afg@street-child.org