Social Organizer Vacancy Number: CTG-SO/003 Job Views: 29 Location: Farah, Afghanistan Organization / Company Name: CTG-UN HABITAT Job Category: Training Employment Type: Full time Salary: Level 2 per month Posted: 08.18.2014 Position Title: Social Organizer Contract Duration: 3 month (extendable) Nationality: Afghan No.of Jobs: 1 Shift: Morning Experience: 3 years minimum Start Date: 08.18.2014 Expiration Date: 08.25.2014 Gender: Female Education: University Background Background The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable communities, towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The main documents outlining the mandate of the organization are the Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements, Habitat Agenda, Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements, the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, and Resolution 56/206. By working at all levels and with all relevant stakeholders and partners, the agency contributes to linking policy development and capacity-building activities with a view to promoting cohesive and mutually reinforcing social, economic, environmental and countries’ policies and programmes in human settlements in conformity with international practices and covenants. UN-Habitat Afghanistan: The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, has been working within Afghanistan since 1992 with funding support of USAID, Japanese Government, EU, DFID, CIDA and several bilateral donors as well as the World Bank. During this period, its Programme expanded to include a wide range of human settlements initiatives, from small-scale neighbourhood level improvement schemes to community empowerment. UN-Habitat has been assisting the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan through a number of projects, both urban and rural, supported by different donors. UN-Habitat rolls out its community-driven development projects to major regional cities such as Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif to continue supporting deliver effective services to their population in the longer term. Through the Community-Based Municipal Support Programme (CB-MSP), UN-Habitat will demonstrate a combination of delivering basic services, empowering community people and strengthening local government who will take over and initiate further delivering services to the people in the near future. By building the capacity of municipal structures and its staff in engineering, community mobilization, and in increasing transparency and accountability of finance and administration, the Project will enable them to be responsive to access to national funds to be transferred from line ministries to deliver and manage development projects in a technically effective and efficient manner. The Kabul Solidarity Programme (KSP) assists in decentralizing the government authorities, in increasing municipal revenues from tax collection and in encouraging community members to get involved in and financially and physically contribute to the implementation process. In addition KSP supports the representation of community groups in the government’s decision making at all levels such as Neighbourhood Development Councils (NDC), Gozar Assemblies and in the future to the Municipal Council. By building capacity of municipal structure and its staff in engineering, community mobilization, and in increasing transparency and accountability of finance and administration, KSP enables them to be responsive to access to national funds to be transferred from line ministries to deliver and manage development projects in a technically effective and efficient manner. The EU-8-supported project Community Driven Settlement Upgrading to Reintegrate Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons in Kabul City. This project is being executed by Kabul Municipality (KM) and the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUDA) with the technical assistance of UN-Habitat. The project area consists mainly of informal settlements. Target beneficiaries are returnees, IDPs, disabled-persons, women-headed households, and other vulnerable groups. UN-Habitat is supporting the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) to implement the National Solidarity Programme (NSP). Currently UN-Habitat is directly engaged in facilitating this programme in more then 20 districts of nine provinces: UN-Habitat is partner with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock to take up the role of Facilitating Partner in implementing the On-Farm Water Management project in the establishment of irrigation associations in 2 provinces (Bamyan and Nangarhar), out of five provinces covered by OFWM Project, and contributes in improving agricultural productivity. Operations Divisions is responsible to provide professional, timely, accurate, effective and efficient support to country office programs. The operation division is also responsible to make sure that financial resources are unitized in the best interest of the organization and in line with UN rules and regulations. The Operations Division is combination of several sub-units such as Financial Management, Human Resources Management, Procurement, Programme Support, Office Management, Information Communication Technology and Security. In July 2014 UN-Habitat will commence a new initiative, the State of Afghan Cities (SOAC) 2014/5 Programme (SOAC) which is being generously supported by the Government of Australia and undertaken in conjunction with MUDA, IDLG/GDMA and Kabul Municipality. This post will support the inception, delivery and completion of this pioneering programme as part of a small team, with linkages to other ongoing UN-Habitat programmes, particularly CBMSP, EU8, and KSP and NSP. Job Description The Social Organizer is reporting to the Provincial Manager and her/his responsibilities include: Ensuring broad based consultation on the implementation of the Operational Manual, especially at the community level. Assisting in development of a clear vision of the good governance objectives and principles of the overall project, ensuring that this guides the whole design and implementation process. Assisting in development of a clear work plan for the implementation phase where the operational manual will be constantly under review and revision based on field experience across the country. This will require designing management systems in consultation with the Provincial Manager to ensure regular consultation across the programme. Establishment of a coordination mechanism between the program sectors to ensure consistency with program vision and objectives Establishing a working relationship with appropriate government departments such as MUDA and Municipality offices With the assistance of the Provincial Manager ensuring that the designated section teams follow the right track of the community development strategy. Ensuring there is appropriate field-testing of the materials as they are developed. Working closely with the monitoring and evaluation section ensuring that the maturity indicators for the social institutions are followed accordingly Job Requirements 3. Qualifications and Experience Education High School Graduate Work Experience Minimum 3 years of relevant experience. Contact Information Interested Afghan National Candidates should submit their applications via e-mail, indicating on the SUBJECT line the title and vacancy number of the position applied for, to career.ctg@gmail Please note that applications received after the closing date (25th of August 2014) will not be given consideration. Only short-listed candidates whose applications respond the above criteria will be contacted for an interview.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 06:59:13 +0000
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