Job Detail

Senior Social Mobilizer is based in Kandahar Field Office. Senior Social Mobilizer will be responsible to oversee the coaching services by the social workers to the teachers. As the social workers are quite novice in hard-to-reach areas, the Senior Social Mobilizer will visit the classes and oversee whether social workers are able to provide quality feedback to teachers and demonstrate best teaching practices. In addition, Senior Social Mobilizer will train both teachers and social workers on ACR and digital data collection, provide implementation plan, monitoring plan and oversee overall performance and functionality of the CBE classes. The Senior Social Worker will be reporting to PCL on weekly and monthly basis.

Generic Responsibilities:

A strong commitment to Street Childs vision, mission and values.

Adhere to all Street Child’s policies and procedures.

Able to represent Street Child appropriately both internally and externally.

Carry out all reasonable requests that are within the broad remit of the role.

Specific Responsibilities:

Lead the provincial need assessment of the out of school children and back to school campaigns.

Identify vulnerable communities and establish CBE classes, facilitate coordination with communities for provision of safe and secure space/place for CBE classrooms and assist PCL in teachers’ recruitment.

Provide ACR and digital data collection training to Social Workers.

Facilitate all possible interactions with PEDs and DEDs – sharing project implementation plan with local authorities and social workers about recruitment, need assessment, CBE establishment etc.

Assure the kits distribution activities are carried out transparently, make sure each targeted respondents received the kits.

Responsible for maintaining all relevant databases, students’ enrolment, retention and dropouts, teachers’ recruitment and attendance and shura members contact info and keeping records of the monthly meetings.

Provide weekly monitoring plans to social workers and assure all assigned classrooms are visited by social workers and to assure that the social workers providing regular coaching support to teachers.

Daily interactions with all social workers and relevant stakeholders about project progress and timely completion of project activities.

Collection of two success stories on monthly basis and sharing it with project manager and communication office. 

Clearly interacting with social workers on the one of the key project indicators of 100 % students reading fluency. Visit weak classes of all social workers and make sure learning take place at classroom level.

Responsible for complaints management at the provincial centre – teachers, students, parents and other concerned complaints will be received by the senior social mobilizer and the complaints will be responded accordingly after consultation with PCL, project Manager and CIC senior management.

Tracking classroom visits and monitoring of social workers – make sure all social workers visit and monitor all assigned classrooms.

Take all necessary steps in coordination with Social Workers to ensure all Teachers follow the ACR teaching methodology.

Closely train coach and monitor teachers and social workers to ensure that 80 % learners by end of the project have at least acceptable oral reading fluency rates  (14 words per minute for Pashto Grade 1 and 20 words per minute for Dari Grade 1).

To further develop good working relationships with specified communities, management staff, government departments (DEDs, community elders, children’s parents and vulnerable children and HHs).

Responsible to protection risks observation and monitoring, awareness raising based on CiC's case management protocols.

To conduct awareness raising with communities (child education).

To collect data, statistics and information requested by the PCL.

Report to the PCL and Project Manager daily and weekly basis.

Responding to child protection issues and all complaints received.

Keep records of any visits, phone calls or emails received from other project staff and community workers requesting support.

Attend at all meetings arranged by the PCL, project manager and participate in meetings with relevant sectors (PED/DED/MoEc).

Ensure that all activities are implemented according to the activity plan and in line with the project objectives.

Any other task assigned by PCL and or Project Manager.

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (03 pages maximum) and Cover Letter (01 page maximum) to the following email address hr.afg@street-child.org not later than the deadline. Please indicate the position title and Vacancy Number in the e-mail subject line. Any application without position title and vacancy number will not be considered. Also, please do not send additional documents.

Interested and qualified candidates should also fill Children in Crisis Recruitment Form (MANDATORY) through below link:

https://forms.gle/Vwm8XhfYkQSMMRB49 

Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.

NOTE: CANDIDATE’S APPLICATION SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED IF THE CHILDREN IN CRISIS/STREET CHILD RECRUITMENT FORM OR CV IS NOT SUBMITTED.