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Regional Social Cohesion Officer-Kandahar
NCA is one of the largest aid organisations in the Nordic region. NCA have 21 country offices across Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, including four joint country offices and other partner organisations. Our mandate is to save lives and seek justice. We do this by working with long-term development programmes, humanitarian interventions and advocacy toward decision-makers to address the root causes of injustice, poverty and power imbalance. Our work is undertaken closely with local civil society partners and other NGOs. NCA Afghanistan is currently working on Climate Resilient WASH, Climate Smart Economic Empowerment, Humanitarian Response, Learning and Social Development, Integrated Community Resilience Action (ICRA) project and Civil Society capacity building. NCA is seeking a competent and highly motivated Regional Social Cohesion Officer with extensive experience in social cohesion and local peace building activities to join our team. This post will support the implementation of social cohesion activities under UNDP funded project called Promoting Ecosystem-based Adaptation & Resilient Livelihoods (PEARL) and Rebuilding Local Economies and Community-based Horticulture. The post holder is based in Mazar-e-Sharif of Balkh province and will travel project sites and reports to the Learning & Social Cohesion Coordinator.
List of the main tasks and responsibilities for this position:
- Work with the NCA’s implementing partner to ensure that organizational management capacity of local shuras are enhanced through conducting relevant trainings on the following themes:
- Organisational management & local governance
- Social cohesion, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution,
- DRR,
- ecosystem-based adaptation and natural resource management, and
- gender mainstreaming and women’s rights from the perspective of Islam.
- Work with the partners to ensure that implementation plan for capacity building of local shuras are prepared and implemented in context sensitive way.
- Work on developing relevant trainings materials for building the capacity of local shuras on relevant aforementioned themes.
- Work with M&E team to develop local shuras capacity building and training tracking system so that the information on the trainings and other details are regularly updated into the system.
- Provide regular and constantly required updates as and when requested on the progress, status and other issues pertaining to local shuras’ capacity building.
- Work with the relevant partners to ensure that data and information on the capacity building of local shuras are updated and entered into the tracking system.
- Provide relevant guidance and advice to the trainers, community mobilizers and other relevant stakeholders engaged in building capacity of local shuras.
- Document success stories, photos, and other evidence-based information to be featured through NCA’s internal portals and platforms including Yammer.
- Work with the partners to ensure that the local shuras are assisted technically in conducting relevant sessions producing the following local development plans:
- Local investment plan
- Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) & Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (DRR &Eba) plan
- Women & Youth Development Plan
- Worked with and supporting the relevant partners to conduct sessions and meetings with local shuras to prepare and developed the mentioned plans.
- Prepare guidelines and templates for local development plans to ensure that local shuras can use those formats and guidelines in preparing the plans.
- Provide supervision and technical support to implementing partners to ensure that they implement social cohesion activities in effective manner.
- Work with the partners to make sure that relevant information including updates, and reports on social cohesion component are provided on regularly and timely basis.
- Prepare success stories reflecting achievements and impact with regard to the implementation of trainings and local development plans etc.
- Review and provide feedback to Implementing Partners on monthly and quarterly reports.
- Translate some documents including training materials, manuals and other project related documents into English and local languages.
- Preparing training materials on relevant social cohesion topics such as mediation, conflict resolution, social harmony and coexistence
- Provide the technical support to implementing partners to ensure that PEARL project and its activities are implemented in conflict sensitive way ensuring that Do No Harm principle is upheld during design and implementation stage.
- Support the implementing partners to conduct a quick mapping of religious actors in the targeted districts.
- Any other activities and tasked as deemed essential and relevant to the assignment.
| Industry category | Other |
| Industry | Other |
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| Company name | NCA |
| Kandahar | |
| Webpage | www.kirkensnodhjelp.no |
| Start date | 07.07.2023 |
| Salary | As per NCA salary scale |
| Application deadline | 24.06.2023 |
| Workplace | Kandahar |
| Title | Regional Social Cohesion Officer-Kandahar |
| Sector | Organisations |
| Position | Full time |
| Extent | Fixed-term contract |
| Number of positions | 1 |
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Aziza Akrami HR Officer nca-afg-vacancy@nca.no |
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