ACBAR

Established in 1991 by a group of educated Afghan women in exile, the Afghan Women's Educational Center (AWEC) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, nonpolitical, and nongovernmental organization dedicated to advocating for and raising awareness about the rights of women and children in Islam.

Our core activities focus on empowering women, eliminating violence, and increasing women's participation in both domestic and societal spheres.

With over three decades of experience, AWEC possesses a profound understanding of Afghanistan's socioeconomic, cultural, and political landscape. We are recognized as a leading organization that addresses the diverse needs of various communities, which are shaped by numerous social and economic factors.

Since 2002, AWEC has collaborated with women and communities to enhance access to education, health, and vocational services in Afghanistan. Our initiatives extend to livelihood improvement, protection, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), humanitarian aid, grant management, capacity building, social rehabilitation, cohesion, and justice. AWEC has successfully implemented projects in Logar, Faryab, Kapisa, Khost, Panjshir, Wardak, Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Badakhshan, Parwan, Paktia, Paktika, Laghman, Nuristan, and Bamyan provinces, maintaining an active presence in Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Badakhshan, Parwan, Paktia, Paktika, Laghman, Nuristan, and Bamyan.

Our vision in AWEC is “an inclusive and just society with sensitized and responsive public and private sector, where all women and children have access to opportunities to improve their quality of life in order to realize their full potential”.

AWEC has zero tolerance approach to the AWEC Code of Conduct including safeguarding, SH, and Fraud violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.

The center managers will be based in Nuristan’s Paroon district and will directly report to the Project Manager; the center manager will manage center activities and provide support, resources, and consulting services to the visiting local communities’ women and girls.

Responsibilities:

Work with women and girls in the centers to identify their needs, interests, and priorities, and where possible, adapt activities according to these to ensure activities offered are culturally appropriate and meet their needs

Conduct, prepare, and help plan and organize activities with women and adolescent girls

Adhere to and promote GBV guiding principles

Know and understand the GBV referral pathway

Share with the women and girls care options are available at centers

Maintain positive coordination and relationships with partner and other sector staff

Ensure supplies/resources for women centers and other program activities are requested promptly and are efficiently utilized

Track participation numbers of women and girls attending centers activities

Manage overall center activities, resources, tools, and spaces

Assist and support the Project officer with training management, information collection, and reporting.

Perform any other duties as required 

Education and Experience:

A Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Education, psychology, Social Science, Business Administration, Public Administration, law and political science and/ or a related field.

A Minimum of 4 years’ experience in humanitarian projects with I/NGOs.

Knowledge and Skills:

Demonstrated interest, enthusiasm, and commitment to working with women and girls, their rights, safety, empowerment, and improving their access to resources and services, with a positive attitude and ability to lead and work well in a team.

Demonstrated skills in planning, implementing, monitoring, and coordinating projects and working collaboratively across internal and external teams.

Ability to discuss sensitive issues with respect, empathy, professionalism, knowledge, and experience with community outreach and mobilization, data collection, narrative and statistical reporting.

Superior communication skills (oral & written) in Dari / Pashto / English.

Willing to travel to project sites as required by the program.

Knowledge of community mobilization.

Decision-making skills that are most appropriate to specific situations and immediately.

Interested candidates are requested to send their applications along with their CVs to the attention of following link: https://forms.gle/9SDSdbjkoP4LDxX18

After submission your information. All eligible shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for test/Interview.

“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.”

https://forms.gle/9SDSdbjkoP4LDxX18