Job Detail

Position Objective

The Social Workers will be based in Nuristan and Laghman provinces and will be directly reported to the Project Officers; the Social workers under the supervision project officer will engage communities, beneficiaries, and stakeholders and ensure effective mobilization and engagement of local communities effectively in the program.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Social worker is required to work according to the plan and instructions of the program
• Ensure effective community mobilization
• Support M&E officer while visiting the field and provide the required information
• Conduct survey in targeted districts and villages
• Assist in establishing safe space centers if required
• Establish working relationships with communities and local government offices in the project target areas
• Coordinate project activities with target communities
• Conduct awareness sessions with the local community
• Coordinate with relevant government departments at the local level to facilitate the administrative processes
• Facilitate meetings of project staff with local government authorities and community people
• Ensure field feedback of beneficiaries
• Organize meetings with local leaders beneficiaries and collect their feedback and share the report with the team leader
• Work with a cooperative attitude and keep a high standard of working quality
• Generate timely reports on all their relevant activities
• Register cases of violence against women meted out to women and girls visiting the center for legal consultation Documentation of counseling records for each of the visitors in both soft and hard formats
• Provide the visitors with legal consultation and services. Identify, set up, and strengthen legal referral mechanism
• Referral of cases of grave concern to advanced legal consultation centers or courts/attorney general office when and where required and necessary
• Follow up and referral of cases of girls and women experiencing violence Develop and maintain a legal register and collect success stories on cases
• Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for clients
• Represent clients/victims in court or before government agencies – if necessary
• Any other tasks being assigned by the supervisor

Interested candidates are requested to send their applications along with their CVs to the attention of following address recruitment@awec.info

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“Being committed to diversity & equal employment opportunity we highly encourage females & people living with disabilities to apply,  all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, language, religious sect.”