Within Humanitarian Assistance and Development Association for Afghanistan (HADAAF), the PSEA Focal Point shall actively promote protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and will be responsible for reporting all concerns and complaints to the HADAAF designated team and must complete a PSEA incident reporting form and send this as well within 24 hours of concern being raised, where possible.
The PSEA Focal Point will participate in all relevant meetings, develop necessary documents for the unit, and provide training to staff on preventing all forms of gender-based violence, sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse.
Duties and Responsibilities of PSEA Focal Point:
1. Engagement and Support of HADAAF Staff and Local Communities
a. Facilitate awareness-raising in HADAAF staff and local communities on their rights regarding sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
b. Provide support in community consultations, monitoring of complaints, and providing feedback to complainants and communities.
2. Prevention
a. Ensure that the entire organization and your contacts know you are widely available.
b. Work with human resources personnel to include PSEA content in staff inductions, including all contractors, consultants, temporary staff, and casual laborers.
c. Provide awareness-raising sessions on SEA for all staff and other personnel in the organization regularly, including for newcomers.
d. Make appropriate recommendations to management on enhancing prevention strategies. This could include collecting and analyzing information on actual/potential risk factors for vulnerability to sexual exploitation and abuse and elaborating measures to address them.
e. Ensure that procedures to guard against the hiring of persons who have a record of SEA offenses are put in place and applied in the recruitment process.
3. Response
a. Immediately refer complainants to the victim assistance mechanism in HADAAF PSEA policy.
b. Take appropriate measures to ensure the safety and confidentiality of survivors.
c. Ensure the development of internal procedures for staff and other personnel to report incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse.
d. Receive complaints, reports, and questions about alleged acts of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by your organization’s personnel and personnel of affiliated organizations.
e. Take appropriate measures to ensure safety and confidentiality for all visitors/ reporters (HADAAF Staff or Local Community) to the Focal Point.
f. Ensure that all materials about complaints are handled strictly in line with applicable grievance procedures.
4. Management and Coordination:
a. Assist the management team of the organization in fulfilling his/her responsibilities under the HADAAF Code of Conduct and PSEA Policy.
b. Share information on achievements, best practices, and effective mechanisms in addressing SEA and make recommendations to relevant entities for action.
c. Support the inclusion of the HADAAF Code of Conduct and PSEA standards in contractual arrangements with other entities and individuals.
d. Coordinate training for all staff in their PSEA roles and responsibilities.
e. Track all PSEA-related activities for the Organization and ensure that all information on PSEA-related activities is shared with relevant persons in the Organization.
f. Keep data on reported incidents for general reporting and further development of efforts to address SEA.
g. Keep management updated on PSEA measures taken and plans for future action.
h. Actively Participate in the relevant meetings with stakeholders, and beneficiaries.
The candidates should not be involved in any form of corruption, fraud and Sexual harassment or abuse (The candidate's background will be checked
Dear prospective candidates,
We invite individuals with the necessary qualifications and experience to submit their applications, accompanied by a cover letter, to hadaaf.hr@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2025.
Contact Numbers: +93786243900
Kindly note that applications received after the closing date will not be accepted or considered. Only shortlisted candidates whose applications align with the specified criteria will be taken into consideration.
Note: Applicants are required to mention the Vacancy Number and Province in the subject line of the email.
hadaaf.hr@gmail.com.
HADAAF is a non-governmental, non for profit and non-sectarian Afghan NGO founded in March 2004 and legally registered with the Ministry of Economy in 2006. Since its inception, HADAAF has been implementing programs in different sectors such as; he... Read More
