ACBAR

Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Currently, Concern has been working in Afghanistan since 1998, when it responded to an earthquake disaster in Takhar province. Currently Concern has been working in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces undertaking both emergency response and long-term developmental work in the areas of livelihood security, primary education and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. 

Main duty and Responsivity:

Programme Planning and Technical Oversight:

• Lead planning and implementation of livelihood, agriculture, livestock, and NRM interventions in line with project objectives.
• Translate project log frame and workplans into actionable field activities.
• Provide technical guidance to Livelihood Support Officers on agriculture, livestock, enterprise development, and market-based approaches.
• Ensure integration of climate resilience, nutrition sensitivity, and sustainability across all livelihood activities.

Supervision and Team Management:

• Directly supervise Livelihood Support Officers and provide regular coaching and performance feedback.
• Oversee and guide Community Mobilisers through Support Officers to ensure quality community engagement.
• Build staff capacity through on-the-job training, mentoring, and refresher sessions.
• Ensure adherence to organizational policies, safeguarding, and accountability standards.

Livestock and Agriculture Livelihood Development:

• Oversee training and equipping of Livestock Service and Input Entrepreneurs, Agriculture Service and Input Entrepreneurs, paravets, and community animal health associates.
• Guide establishment and strengthening of veterinary clinics and linkages with Veterinary Field Units (VFUs).
• Ensure quality implementation of improved livestock rearing, fodder cultivation, silage, backyard poultry, and small ruminant activities.
• Supervise climate-resilient crop production, orchards, kitchen gardens, and greenhouse interventions.

Producer Organizations, Markets, and Enterprise Development:

• Lead establishment and strengthening of Livestock Owner Groups, Farmer Producer Groups, women’s Self-Help Groups, and Producer Group Federations.
• Guide capacity building of Producer Groups and Federations on governance, collective marketing, and sustainability.
• Oversee development of market linkages at local, national, and export levels.
• Ensure establishment of supply systems for crops, livestock, dairy, and processed products.
• Support post-harvest management, value addition, processing, and storage interventions.

Financial Literacy, Nutrition, and Household Resilience:

• Ensure delivery of financial literacy and enterprise development training for farmers and livestock owners.
• Integrate nutrition awareness, hygiene promotion, and water purification practices into livelihood programming.
• Promote diversification of income sources and household resilience strategies.

Natural Resource Management and Climate Resilience:

• Oversee capacity building of WMCs and NRM User Associations on sustainable NRM practices.
• Guide implementation of Water Management Plans (WMPs), including small-scale IWM and DRR infrastructure through cash-for-work.
• Ensure participatory appraisals are conducted to promote sustainable and efficient resource use.
• Support interventions to improve water availability for agriculture and domestic use.

Gender, Inclusion, and Community Engagement:

• Ensure meaningful participation of women, IDPs, returnees, and vulnerable groups across all livelihood activities.
• Support identification and capacity building of female community facilitators.
• Guide community integration dialogues and engagement with religious and community leaders.
• Oversee FGDs with WMC Inclusion Taskforces to ensure inclusive governance.

Coordination, Partnerships, and Representation:

• Coordinate with relevant government departments, line agencies, market actors, and service providers.
• Represent the organization in livelihood-related coordination forums at district and provincial levels.
• Support partnerships with private sector actors and producer organizations.

Monitoring, Reporting, and Learning:

• Ensure accurate monitoring, documentation, and reporting of livelihood activities.
• Review and validate reports submitted by Livelihood Support Officers.
• Contribute to donor reporting, case studies, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Use monitoring data to improve programme quality and adaptive

Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS):

• The concern is committed to CHS to ensure downward accountability. CHS standards guide Concern activities in all stages both emergency and development projects /programs. In Afghanistan, we also bounded our activities by Accountability framework and therefore any Afghanistan employees is responsible to comply with CHS principles and benchmarks as instructed by its policies and therefore make sure that all accept and implement CHS standards in all our activities.
• To give full support in relation to emergencies/ humanitarian operations when occurring in any area that Concern Afghanistan will respond. This can include but is not limited to participation in the Concern Afghanistan Rapid Deployment Unit (CARDU) and deployment on emergency response teams

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Economics, Natural Resource Management, or related field (master’s preferred).
• Minimum 5–7 years of progressive experience in livelihood, agriculture, or resilience programming.
• Proven experience managing field teams and supervising technical staff.
• Strong understanding of market systems, value chains, and producer organizations.
• Experience integrating gender, inclusion, and climate resilience into livelihoods programming.

Skills:

• Very good command of written and spoken English.
• Ability to fluently communicate in local language.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Package (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Teams).
• Strong leadership, supervision, and mentoring skills.
• Excellent planning, coordination, and problem-solving abilities.
• Technical expertise in agriculture and/or livestock systems.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and report-writing skills.

Ability to work in complex and insecure field environments.

Applications should be written in English and demonstrate the applicant’s suitability for the job. A current Curriculum Vita and three referee reports should be included in the application. In the first instance, applications should be submitted to Concern Worldwide- Afghanistan offices in Taloqan marked to the attention of the Human Resources Department. And / or to any other field offices of Concern in Faizabad, Yawan, Chahab and Kabul (Shari now, 5^th  Street of Qalai Fatullah, connected with Qalai Moosa) or through this email address: afghanistan.hr@concern.net

Subject line must be (914/2026- Livelihoods Officer) or your application may not be considered. 

Closing Date: 4 May 2026

afghanistan.hr@concern.net