DACAAR is a non governmental, humanitarian organization that supports sustainable development in Afghanistan through promoting the ability of local communities to decide upon and manage their own development process. The organisation employs around 900 staff of whom 04 are expatriates. Core thematic areas are: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Natural Resource Management; Small Scale Enterprise Development; Women’s Empowerment.

Position Description:

The SO will communicate with the project targeted beneficiaries ( addict users), and communities members in central, district and village-levels, that will take responsibilities to make decisions with close coordination of south regional office  team and DACAAR main office team / SSED team in all interventions properly as its require, to complete the central, district and village-levels profile for further selection of the project beneficiaries in collaboration with the Field officer, project in charge and relevant stack holders in provincial level.

Responsibilities:

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

• The SO should disseminate the objective of the project intervention to the relevant stakeholders in provincial, district and village levels based on the requirements.
• The SO will arrange meetings, appointments with the relevant stockholder’s in any time required.
• The SO resolves any dispute related to the project intervention.
• Should understand the importance of sustainability and promote its concept among the beneficiaries through dissemination, mobilization, and active participation of the community in the project intervention.
• The SO should facilitate the project intervention in all aspects, through dissemination of the project objective (To increase social reintegration and employment of recovering drug users enabling them to sustain their recovery into the society by providing specialized marketable small scale enterprise development programming.
• Help,SRO team, Field officers and SSED unit team, in community awareness-raising regarding the importance of income generation activities.
• Coordinate with the district, village communities and the relevant provinces authorities.
• Report monthly progress to the project field officer according to the format requested by DACAAR.
• Coordinate with Community organization and able to solve internal small disputes with community / SU ( Shura-e-Ulama), at district and villages level.
• Collecting related information/data and coordinate with field Officer to finalize reports.
• The holder of this position must strictly follow the organization existing security policies, procedures and daily instructions of the safety personnel.
• Any other tasks giving by the supervisor

Education/ Qualification and Employment Benefits                                               

Education: Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Agro-business master in relevant field is preferred.

Experience: At least 3 years of relevant experience in small business & enterprise development and Agro-business sector with NGOs.

Other qualifications’ an advantage:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective community Mobilization and report writing.
• Understanding of small-scale enterprise needs (market linkages and business development)
• Ability in team working, Good Organizational Skills
• Have knowledge of good participatory assessment skills.
• Excellent interpersonal relationships, networking in community level

Languages: Pashto / Dari and English.

Employment benefits:

• Good training opportunities to enhance employees’ skills
• Eid bonus on both Eids (after the completion of three months service)
• 36 days of paid annual leave per year
• 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• 45 days of paid Hajj leave (after the completion of one year service)
• 90 days of paid maternity leave for female employees (after the completion of three months service)
• 6 days of paid paternity leave for male employees (after the completion of three months’ service)
• Public holidays (According to the approved public holiday’s list)

Procedure for submission of applications:                                                                                      

Interested and qualified candidates should submit an updated DACAAR Job Application Form along with introduction letter and CV online to jobs@dacaar.org or a Hard copy to HR Department in DACAAR main office Kabul.

Important Note:

• Applications without DACAAR’s UPDATED Job Application Form will not be considered.
• Application without Vacancy Number will not be considered.
• UPDATED DACAAR job application form can be obtained from; DACAAR website www.dacaar.org/, acbar website www.acbar.org/; jobs.af websites, and DACAAR Main Office kabul.
• Applications submitted as .RAR file or if the size exceeds 2MB, will not be accepted by the system
• Only Short-listed candidates will be contacted and called for the written test/ interview.
• The salary would be paid in AFN according to the actual exchange rate.

DACAAR is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the society. While all applicants will be strictly assessed on their individual merit, qualified women, people with disabilities and members of minority communities are especially encouraged to apply.

Kabul Office Address:
DACAAR, Main Office, Paikob-e-Naswar, Wazirabad, Kabul, Afghanistan

Postal address: Central P.O. Box 208, Kabul, Afghanistan
Phone: (+93) 0202230752/ (+93) 0202230753
E-mail: jobs@dacaar.org
Web site: www.dacaar.org

jobs@dacaar.org

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