Safe Space Facilitator (Kabul, Afghanistan)

Assist the Safe Space Officer to ensure that safe space center is functioning properly in term of  helping adolescent girls in crisis at the provincial level to receive needed referrals and basic support for their rehabilitation such as psycho social counselling, mediation for conflict resolution with the family, and advisory support in legal matters through collective community and stakeholder actions.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Assist the Safe Space Office in daily operations of resource center.
• Register the visitors for different supports that the visitors require.
• Arrange the visitor girls according to their needs and report to safe space officer.
• Provide basic guidance to the visitor (girls and women) on the support safe space center can provide.
• Maintain confidentiality of visitors and/or beneficiaries and information related to requests for services; be sensitive to confidentiality needs of everyone we serve.
• Assist the Safe Space Office in daily operations of resource center.
• Attend and participate in relevant community meetings, coalitions, summits, and conferences as needed. Maintain positive and engaging relationships with identified community partners in target area to enhance and promote cultural competency programming.
• Maintain, update and track and monitor program information such as participants, expenditures, and assistance type in a timely manner through various tools.
• Contact Safe Space Officer in crisis or emergency situations.
• Assist the Safe Space Officer in developing publicity plans for events and programs.
• Assist with planning, implementation, and evaluation of Resource Center events
• To maintain mutual and positive relationship with target communities and work with communities to ensure community contribution and participation.

ActionAid is a global alliance of organizations, working towards achieving a world without poverty and injustice in which every person enjoys the right to a life with dignity. We work in more than 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas and our expertise lies in community-led development, working through partnerships with people living in poverty and their organizations. We work with the poor and excluded sections of the society using human rights based development approach. Our Country Strategy for Afghanistan titled ‘PEOPLE’S POWER FOR INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE’ for the period 2018-2022 focuses on improving resilient food security and also advancing grassroots democratic governance among, other strategic priorities, wherein women and girls’ needs are central to all of our work.

Education & Training:

• 12th Grade or High School Graduate. Bachelor’s degree holders will be given priority.
• Knowledge of dealing with adolescent girls.

Experience:

• At least 1-2 year of experience, specially dealing/teaching adolescent girls or doing administrative support role.

Technical Skills:

• Sympathetic and caring
• Good communication skills
• Mature, patience and highly committed towards Women’s Rights.
• Able to write, read and speak English, Dari and Pashto
• Prepared to work hard and long when needed to achieve deadlines, targets and quality standards set by the project.
• Good interpersonal skills, flexible, patient, and able to mentor others.

If you have the expertise to take on this exciting opportunity, please apply online by sending your CV and motivation cover letter to jobs.kabul@actionaid.org  before February 13, 2021. Please clearly indicate Safe Space Facilitator-718 in the subject of your email, otherwise your application will not be considered. ActionAid Afghanistan will review the applications on an ongoing basis, thus applicants are strongly advised to make applications at the earliest.

ActionAid Afghanistan welcomes applications from all sections of the community and promotes diversity.  Although all applications will be considered on their individual merit, suitably qualified women candidates are especially encouraged to apply.  

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. ActionAid Afghanistan will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

Local Candidates from Bagrami district of Kabul are highly encouraged to apply.

Submission Email
jobs.kabul@actionaid.org