ACBAR

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC opened the country program in Afghanistan in 1988. Our programs span the range from humanitarian relief to early recovery and development activities, focusing on child protection, education, economic wellbeing, health, and power. The IRC works in 10 provinces throughout Afghanistan, among which some of the most security volatile, and employs over 1000 staff.

Compliance with Policies:

• Compliance with the IRC WAY (our standards for professional conduct) is a responsibility shared by all involved in delivering on the IRC’s mission. We must abide by the IRC Way and Safeguarding Policies all the time. 
• The IRC has zero tolerance approach to the IRC Code of Conduct including safeguarding violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.

General Duties

• Work closely with the nutrition officer to identify and develop nutrition for health to ensure continued awareness of the nutrition guidelines adopted by the health facilities and IRC/MOPH.
• On-the-job training for staff at the community-based nutrition program (CBNP)
• Conduct regular visits to the communities and support the community volunteers for nutrition promotion.
• Schedule regular site visits for monitoring and supervision to ensure the quality of services, accurate data collection, and tracking of community Nutrition activities.
• Submit weekly updates to the nutrition officer

Specific Duties:

• Establish mother-to-mother support groups at the project target locations, communities, and conduct training for them on Family MUAC and Mother MUAC.
• Conduct cooking/ food demonstration sessions for mothers and caregivers at the community level.
• Support the mothers and volunteers in screening children under five to monitor and ensure early detection of malnutrition cases.
• Support the mothers and volunteers to appropriately refer children under five detected as malnourished to the nearest health facilities.
• Prepare and submit the nutrition reports for community activities and inpatient referrals as guided by the nutrition officer.
• Any other job-relevant duties assigned by the line manager

• Qualified Nurse, community health, with experience in health promotion and conducting pieces of training sessions

• 1 to 2 years’ Experience in community mobilization and coordination to increase community participation.
• Self-motivated, possessing persuasion skills, ability to maintain relationships, and ability to work on own initiative.
• Enthusiasm to travel to locations within a region, and to other regions for training sessions.
• Communication and reporting skills
• Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English
• Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and Internet) an advantage
• Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background

For IRC- Afghanistan Internal Candidates:

(“ The IRC encourages employees to remain in a position for at least one year and be in good standing before applying for another position within the organization. if an employee is interested in a vacant position within the organization, he/she must inform his/her supervisor in advance before applying for a new position”)

(However, 1 year is a must to complete but to encourage IRCA employees somehow we are flexible who work in the current IRC position for at least 6 months or above and are given chance to compete for an opportunity in the organization)

Priority will be given to the local people.

All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/58673?c=rescue

applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post. IRC Afghanistan Country Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10, Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.

Refer to submission guideline