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 project officer supports effective project implementation by assisting the Project Manager in planning, executing, and monitoring activities that deliver tangible results for communities. This includes resource management, fostering local partnerships, prioritizing women’s and girls’ leadership, coordinating service providers, and strengthening community engagement and referral systems.

Responsibilities:

Support project manager in project implementation, activities planning, execution and monitoring.

Oversee project activities and support project staff at all level to have tangible result on the communities.

Manage resources of the project for effective use to reduce the cost and misuse of project assets and equipment.

As required support maximizing available sources of information and opportunities for coordination and ensuring compliance with safety and ethical standards.

Identify local partners involved local communities in reinforcing local efforts to promote project lead interventions.

Ensure that project activities are driven by local women and girls and planned with community stakeholders.

Coordinate with other service providers, and collect community input to establish and strengthen referral pathways.

Identify appropriate locations and orientation for services, including centers MNs networks.

Work with teams and communities to develop appropriate prevention and awareness-raising/behavior change strategies.

Assist as or when required in building the capacity of field staff/volunteers/partners in relevant technical areas to deliver services and lead interventions.

Assist and support the Center managers with organizing and arranging events, training, services, information collection, and reporting.

Perform any other duties as required.

Education and Experience:

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

A Minimum of 4 years’ experience in managing/ coordinating 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 speaking, understanding, and writing is a must for the position

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.”