Save the Children NGO employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. NGO also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
Save the Children NGO working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
NGO is aware that outstanding personnel contribute significantly to the success of the organization and that our staff members are essential to realizing our goals for the children. The nonprofit organization Save the Children values individuals and provides a purposeful and fulfilling profession in addition to a welcoming, cooperative work environment that places a high importance on ambition, originality, and honesty.
Since 1976, Save the Children has conducted operations in Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of youngsters throughout the nation have benefited from long-lasting improvement because to our approach of working closely with people and according to their preferences. Our approach is based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We are assisting kids in receiving higher-quality education, enabling more boys and girls to enroll in school, and assisting kids in self-defense and self-determination. In order to save the lives of women and children, we collaborate with families, communities, and healthcare professionals in homes, clinics, and hospitals to improve fundamental health.
Job Description:
- Along with ensuring that accountability mechanisms are mainstreamed in all programs in accordance with the Country Office’s Accountability Standard Operating Procedures and KPI reporting, the MEAL Assistant Accountability will support and assist the MEAL Specialist Accountability. With the goal of learning from and improving programs, the candidate will specifically support the MEAL Specialist Accountability in making sure that all programs have mechanisms for accountability to donors, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders and that staff members are qualified to perform the necessary accountability tasks.
- The MEAL Assistant Accountability will support the Afghanistan Country Office’s area offices in integrating child-friendly, gender-sensitive, inclusive, accessible, and appropriate accountability systems (including information sharing and Feedback and Reporting Mechanisms), encourage child participation, and oversee the hotline system in order to put the children and communities we serve at the center of our work. To ensure responsibility to children and communities, the MEAL Assistant responsibility will collaborate closely with the MEAL, Child Safeguarding, and program teams (Child Rights Programming and Child Rights Governance teams).
- The post holder will be required to work beyond the typical role profile and be prepared to adjust working hours in the case of a serious humanitarian disaster.
- The main areas of accountability and responsibility of this post is to implement Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning activities at the Country Office. Details are below.
- Assist the MEAL Specialist Accountability to develop and/or adapt the associated tools required to implement the accountability and participation minimum requirements to ensure that roll-out is standardized across operational areas (e.g., information sharing guidance and materials, feedback and reporting channel guidance, Feedback Handling Standard Operating Procedure, Feedback Database, child-friendly methodology guidance etc).
- Assist MEAL Specialist Accountability in carrying out accountability assessments and ensuring that all key accountability elements are included in relevant evaluations.
- Ensures that the accountability hot lines are up and running all the time and responds to all incoming calls, text messages and WhatsApp messages received.
- Prioritize protection principles, respect, and confidentiality in responding to callers.
- Provides accurate and timely information to the complainants/ beneficiaries and registers the details of each call in the accountability database on the spot.
What are KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY for this NGO Job position?
- Keeps a record of all the complaints and comments that are received via the various accountability systems (such as feedback boxes) on the online accountability database.
- Assume accountability for the right execution of all helpline operating protocols and forward all cases to the relevant responsible parties in compliance with those protocols.
- Ascertain that every matter reported to the management team is followed up on until the case is closed.
- Respond politely and expertly to beneficiaries’ inquiries via the hotline.
- Take information out of the complaint/feedback boxes, input it into the databases, make sure the data is sent efficiently, and save it for later use.
- As part of accountability studies, conduct phone surveys to learn about beneficiaries’ experiences utilizing the hotline and other feedback and response methods.
- Make technical support visits as needed to help the MEAL Specialists provide local offices with remote technical assistance for implementing accountability and participation initiatives.
- Encourage an organizational culture that really answers to the kids and the communities in which they live.
- whatever additional duties that the line manager assigns.
What is the Job Position and Apply Date ?
| ACBAR Jobs | Details |
|---|---|
| Apply/Last Date | 09 June, 2024/ 20 June, 2024 |
| Contract Duration: | Fixed Term |
| Gender: | Female |
| Organization: | Save the Children |
| Job Location: | Kabul |
| Years of Experience: | 2 year experience in MEAL (1 year in Accountability) |
| Education: | Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Development Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Work, International Relations, or related fields) |
| No. Of Jobs: | 1 |
| Vacancy Number: | 7897 |
| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Salary | As per SCI salary scale |
Job Requirements:
- solid background working with multinational organizations in the MEAL sector
- familiarity with creating, developing, and/or overseeing reporting and feedback mechanisms.
- prior programming experience in the following areas: livelihoods, food security, child protection, health and nutrition, education, and child poverty.
- maturity and assurance while interacting with communities and government employees.
- Strong interpersonal skills for negotiation and dispute resolution, as well as excellent written and verbal communication in both English and the local tongue.
- skill with computers, particularly with regard to Microsoft Office and other professional office applications.
- expertise dealing with marginalized and underprivileged populations as well as children.
- Capacity to converse with individuals of different origins and to push for the inclusion of marginalized and disadvantaged groups’ perspectives.
- dedication to Save the Children’s goals and ideals. A solid grasp of child rights and the Save the Children mission, as well as the capacity to guarantee that they remain the cornerstones of our assistance.
- knowledge of fostering morally and practically sound community and kid engagement.
- expertise in determining communication preferences and information requirements, as well as in developing suitable information and communication strategies.
- job experience in a civil society organization, NGO, or other comparable setting.
- proficiency in creating reports and data analysis.
- a track record of assisting data analysis to impact programming changes.
What are the Responsibilities for this job?
- The aforementioned list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive, and the role holder may be asked to perform additional tasks that are reasonable given their level of expertise and experience.
- The position holder shall perform the duties in compliance with the Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures of SCI.
How Can Apply for the Job
You can only apply if you meet the requirements and have prior experience with educational programs.
How to Apply For the jobs at ACBAR ( Agency Coordinating Development Body for Afghan Relief and Development)
- If your qualifications match our requirements, kindly send your résumé at https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/preview/7897/?utm_medium=jobshare, before the deadline.
- Kindly include in the subject line of your email the class you would want to teach. Should that not be the case, your application may not be accepted.
- You are welcome to drop off your resume at our office as well