Social Mobilizer (Badakhshan, Afghanistan)

JOB SUMMARY:

Doing community mobilization, awareness raising, assessments, facilitate community conversations/ meetings and build relations.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

• Facilitate first contact meetings on the villages for village decision makers at CDC, CLDC and DDA.
• To lead and facilitate the introduction meetings with community, school, and district decision makers.
• Collect social economic and demographic data of the target communities, compile them, analyses and enter them into the data bases.
• Develop Village Disaster Management Plan (VDMPs) in consultation with Geologist.
• Facilitate community awareness process on components of the projects and school awareness package.
• Organize the support for distribution of IEC materials at community level for acceptance of the project activities.
• Conduct the trainings at community level on the relevant components of the project.
• Collection of Baseline data, analysis and entering them into the data bases.
• Support to the technical consultancy agency in conducting the feasibility study.
• To Capture success stories and lessons learned in each phase of program implementation.
• Organize regular meetings with community and at as bridge between AKAH- and community.
• Lead the process of information dissemination at community level.
• To work closely with community to make them understand about the system and its utility for them. 
• Regular reporting about the project implementation process on monthly basis.
• Facilitate project implementation on the project target areas along with Team leader.
• Keep regular contact with the community as well as well local government officials for collecting information and reporting to the Team leader.
• Undertake any other duties and assignments, as may be assigned.

An Affiliate of Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)

Education:  Bachelor’s degree in social science, disaster management, Community development, weather related study and study in similar nature.

Experience: Incumbent should carry 1-2 years of experience in area of Field implementation, Disaster Management and conducting baseline surveys with following qualification

Skills: 

• Good knowledge of reading and writing of English.
• Good knowledge of communication and building relations.
• Understand community concepts and behavior.
• High flexibility and accept the position challenge.
• High knowledge of reading and writing of Dari.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet the deadlines.
• Working experience in Badakhshan/Baghlan, Kunduz, Takhar and Bamiyam is added advantage.

Interested applicants meeting the above requirements should submit a cover letter describing your interest and suitability for the position along with your Curriculum Vitae (CV) to the following email address:

akah.badakhshanhr@akdn.org

Note -Preference will be given to those who are current residence of Nusai District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan

Important Notes:

• Please quote the vacancy number as the subject of the e-mail when applying
• No supporting documents (e.g., diplomas, recommendation letters, identification card (s) etc.) are required at this stage.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further assessment.
• Salary: According to Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH)-Salary Scale 

 Your details and information shared on this advertisement shall remain confidential.   

Note: Employee of AKDN sister institutions applies to this position must inform his/her respected organization and attach a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) with the application. Failure to do so will disqualify him/her for consideration.

Submission Email
akah.badakhshanhr@akdn.org