Community Mobilizer

Kapisa

Organization: CTG - Committed To Good
Location: Kapisa
Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
- Social Affairs
- Civil Society and Local governance
Closing Date: 2025-03-12

Job description

CTG overview

CTG staff and support humanitarian projects in fragile and conflict-affected countries around the world, providing a rapid and cost-effective service for development and humanitarian missions.

CTG recruits, deploys and manages the right people with the right skills to implement humanitarian and development projects. Key to successful project delivery is the ability to mobilize at speed; CTG can source and deploy anyone, anywhere, in very high pace.

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Overview of position

Organizational Setting:

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. The UN-Habitat Afghanistan country office is part of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). The position is located in Kabul provinces, Afghanistan.

Learning from the experience in the last 30 years and recognizing the realities of the current context in the country, UN-Habitat in Afghanistan designs and implements projects in settlements of all sizes, putting the needs of people first, targeting the most vulnerable and meeting local needs by focusing on area-based and community-driven outputs. The portfolio currently covers projects ranging from humanitarian responses to supporting recovery and meeting basic human needs. UN-Habitat collaborates closely with the UN country team as well as with technical and financial partners in Afghanistan, in alignment with the UN Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (UNSFA) and the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plans (HRNP).

Afghanistan is experiencing a continuous humanitarian crisis, with over half a million people in the need of humanitarian assistance. Many people are displaced due to climate change, internal displacement or massive returns from neighbouring countries, and many have sought refuge in the relative safety of cities, which are growing rapidly. The number of people living in unplanned, underserviced and informal settlements, including in risk prone areas, is increasing and living conditions as well as access to services is inadequate. The unfolding crisis in Afghan cities, which is accelerated by climate change impacts and natural disasters, is occurring in a context of underlying vulnerabilities, including infrastructure deficits, insecure livelihoods and pervasive tenure insecurity. Most at risk are displaced people in informal settlements, with women, disabled and ethnic minorities being particularly vulnerable.

UN-Habitat applies a participatory and community-driven approach, using participatory spatial planning and action planning processes to enable communities to identify and implement priority service and infrastructure investments to support their socioeconomic recovery processes and creating an enabling environment for durable solutions. UN-Habitat's community-cantered “People's Process” is a proven and effective approach to reduce vulnerability at scale in the Afghan context. UN-Habitat builds upon its long tradition of partnering with communities in informal settlements to create sustainable and safe settlements, improve living conditions and adequate livelihood opportunities to those most in need.

Role objectives

Responsibilities

1. Community Engagement and Mobilization

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with communities to ensure participation in project activities. Maintain good liaison with the local authorities at the district level, project partners and communities and conduct regular field surveys and assessments; map information and ensure documentation.

• Sensitize, inform, and mobilize communities regarding the objectives, scope, and expected outcomes of the shelter project to ensure inclusion and transparency. Identify social issues in project areas and provide possible solutions to field teams.

• Establish effective mechanisms to gather community feedback, addressing grievances and concerns throughout the project implementation stage, ensuring transparency and trust-building.

2. Beneficiary Identification and Selection

• Conduct household-level assessments and surveys using tools like KOBO or other digital platforms to identify vulnerable households adversely affected by floods or displacement as needed.

3. Capacity-Building and Awareness

• Organize awareness-raising and training sessions to help communities understand disaster risk reduction (DRR), shelter safety, and how to best use the assistance provided.

• Conduct trainings and workshops with Support of provincial project support assistant and project manager, for local communities and beneficiaries on GBV and SEA training sessions for beneficiaries on project objective, and project monitoring and ensure they understand the project implementation modality.

4. Monitoring and Reporting

• Supervise the distribution of conditional cash for temporary shelter construction, ensuring that the process is transparent and supports the intended beneficiaries.

• Conduct regular field visits to monitor the progress of the shelter construction, document community participation, and ensure project goals are met on a timely basis.

• Monitor and ensure that community consultation, meetings, training, demonstration activities, area mapping, community action, hazard mapping plan and capacity building of the community are done on a timely basis as per the agreed standards

• Provide comprehensive and timely reporting to project managers and field coordinators, including success stories, monitoring updates, and data on community outcomes. These include, weekly monitoring reports based on standard formats for submission to the project support assistant & monthly progress reports on community mobilization and training submission to provincial team leaders.

• Coordinate with technical teams to implement the project effectively and address community concerns about building safe and sustainable shelters. Support project engineers, architects and project GIS, Urban planner to implement technical aspects of the project as needed.

5. Ensure Safety and Gender Sensitivity

• Create a safe and inclusive environment prioritizing vulnerable groups, including women-headed households, in the implementation of the project.

6. Other Responsibilities

• Ensure adherence to UN-Habitat operational policies, procedures and standards of conduct

• Perform any other task assigned by the supervisor(s).

Qualifications

a)A School graduation with minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in social mobilization and community development programs with displaced AfghansExperience, bachelor’s degree in social sciences is preferrable.

b)Language:

Good speaking, reading and writing in Dari and Pashto are required to communicate with staff and beneficiaries. English is one of the Official UN languages which is preferrable for this post.

Experience:

Experience in community mobilization and experience in implementation of community-based projects, shelter projects.

c)Other:

Build support with national counterparts, during the project period; Ensure high-quality and timely achievement of relevant activties and targets; Support capacity development efforts with project partners for the required components; Support UN-Habitat's contribution to multi-stakeholder national coordination and advocacy forums; Support 'learning by doing' capacity development efforts throughout the programme period with programme partners for improving local safety and security, especially for women, youth and marginalised urban groups; Support coordination with other partners’ programmes in target cities

Project reporting

Reporting Relationships

The Community Mobilizer will assist the provincial team and the Project Manager in implementing the technical components of the project in Kapisa Province, Nijrab District. This includes developing the work plan, preparing project-related documentation, and coordinating with the project team. The Shelter Engineer will report directly to the Project Officer on a day-to-day basis and will oversee the technical aspects of the AHF-funded project in the designated project areas.

Key competencies

Competency

Professionalism: Ability to identify and resolve budgetary problems and identify sources for data collection. Shows pride in work and in achievements; demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter; is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations. Takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work.

Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; asks questions to clarify and exhibits interest in having two-way communication; tailors’ language, tone, style and format to match audience; demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.

Teamwork: Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; is willing to learn from others; places team agenda before personal agenda; supports and acts in accordance with final group decisions, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect their own position; shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings.

Team management

Results expected.

1. Communities well informed and sensitized to project activities

2. Coordination mechanisms established with community-based organizations, and project beneficiaries and UN-Habitat colleagues.

Ensure the completion of activities across the project according to their respective work plans

Further information

a)Other:

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