Overview
The Community Engagement Officer will support the development and implementation of DRC's Community Engagement activities in Afghanistan, focusing on promoting social cohesion, peace, and mitigating conflict impacts. The role involves ensuring the quality of planning and implementation of sector activities, conducting conflict analysis, and maintaining stakeholder relations.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure efficient and effective program implementation with regards to conflict management, humanitarian mediation and related community engagement activities, in compliance with the sector standards and training requirements
- Contribute to integrated approaches for activity planning and implementation in collaboration with other sector teams
- Follow up budget and work plan to ensure a compliant and timely activity implementation
- Participate in preparing monthly/quarterly/annual highlights/reports and proposals and budgets for donors
- Carrying out monitoring and evaluation exercises in coordination with programme lead and MEAL
- Collaborate with relevant internal and external technical experts on sector relevant issues
- Represent DRC at meetings and other relevant technical coordination meetings
- Ensure integration with other DRC sectors
- Provide inputs for programme development with regards to community engagement components in line with sector standards and training requirements
- Explore opportunities for collaboration and integration with other sectors
- Develop project plans and budgets for funding
- Develop projects tools
- Project implementation and reporting
- Monitor and evaluate projects
- Plan and coordinate proactively logistics and movements of staff from and to different operational areas
- Initiate procurements and ensure their execution
- Ensure distribution plans are prepared and shared with logistics in a timely manner
Required Experience
- Preferably 3 years relevant professional experience in conflict management, conflict analysis, community safety, youth engagement or other relevant area.
- Preferably 3 years in dealing with displacement issues of both internally displaced/returnees and refugees and international standard/ frameworks.
- Experience in Capacity building of both staff and communities
- Knowledge of and experience working with communities in Afghanistan.
- Ability to clearly express one’s thoughts, to analyze and present information clearly and concisely.
- Ability to set priorities and to work independently and as part of a team.
- Political and cultural sensitivity, as well as a diplomatic, tactful, and flexible interpersonal style.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
Qualifications
University degree in a relevant discpline such as social sciences, humanities or law.
