Job Detail

Position summary:

The Life Skill Educator is an important part of the War Child Canada’s Program Implementation team. The position holder will be responsible for provision of support to youths, adolescent and children in coordination and direct management of the Multipurpose Youth Center (MYC) Coordinator. He/she will be responsible to engage male and female youths through providing life skills education that includes awareness sessions on SRHR with a focus on peer education and healthy lifestyles including hygiene promotions, problem solving and critical thinking, and prevention of violence. He/she will also be responsible to establish and support peer-based youth networks by supporting youth networks at community level, educate youths to get knowledge on human rights and protection issues, have meaningful participation in decision-making, volunteerism and help to identify young survivors of violence. dialogues.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Provision of support to youths, adolescent and children in coordination and direct management of the Multipurpose Youth Center (MYC) Coordinator,
• Review and refine existing training modules on life skills education,
• Work with community to encourage youths and adolescent to engage them in the program,
• Work with supervisor in planning and implementing activities related to psychosocial life skill including community education, group and individual counseling sessions,
• Providing life skills training/ session including awareness sessions on SRHR with focus on peer education and healthy lifestyles including hygiene promotions, problem solving and critical thinking and prevention of violence,
• Develop and follow up of the action plan based to the project DIP,
• Providing PSS counseling to vulnerable youths and adolescent who are at risk of child marriage and abuse,
• Visit field and conduct life skill training to the CBPM members and build their capacity,
• Provide technical assistance to other programs as requested.
• File reports for activities and accomplishments on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis, or as otherwise assigned.
• Identify and support in the professional capacity building of the WCC program PSS team,
• Prepare and submit reports to the MYC coordinator.
• Identify, collect and record success stories/cases studies and best practiced activities for improvement of the programs on regular bases.

Interested applicants are invited to send their resume and an accompanying cover letter electronically to:  kabulhr@wcc-afg.org 

War Child Canada is an equal opportunity employer; qualified Afghan women are strongly encouraged to apply.

The closing date is Nov 12, 2022. Please ensure your application email has the subject heading of ‘ Life Skill Educator   VA# HR/WCC-042'. Otherwise, your application will not be considered.  Only those applicants selected for an interview will be notified. No phone calls please.

For more information about War Child Canada, please visit www.warchild.ca