Position Title: Social Safeguards Officer
2025-10-28        Kabul       Full Time        9
Job Location: Kabul
Nationality: National
Category: Program
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: .
Vacancy Number: VR/0031
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Kabul
Organization: Afghanaid
Years of Experience: 2 years
Contract Duration: 18 Month
Gender: Male/Female
Education: Bachelor Degree
Close date: 2025-10-28

About Afghanaid:

Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar, Khost and Paktia. For 4 decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable livelihoods and food security; adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk, and emergency humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.

Job Descriptions:
  • Identify, assess, and mitigate potential social risks, adverse impacts, and opportunities related to project activities.
  • Develop and implement Social Management Plans (SMPs) to address identified risks and ensure community-friendly project delivery.
  • Establish and manage Grievance Redress Mechanisms (GRM) in all project sites, ensuring proper documentation.
  • Ensure awareness on social safeguards and Grievance Redress Mechanisms among project staff, community members, and contractors.
  • Ensure effective communication and consultation channels with affected communities, local leaders, and government authorities to understand their concerns and incorporate their input.
  • Monitor compliance with social safeguards, organisational policies, and donor requirements.
  • Establish and maintain a monitoring and evaluation system to assess the effectiveness of social safeguard interventions.
  • Monitor the integration of gender equality, social inclusion, and conflict mitigation in all project phases, ensuring women, marginalized, and vulnerable groups are meaningfully engaged and benefit equitably.
  • Prepare a comprehensive visit plan (in coordination with line management) to visit provincial and district offices for monitoring.
  • Regularly report findings, progress, risks, and recommendations to the project management team.
  • Promote a socially responsible culture within the project team and among stakeholders.
  • Any other duties as and when assigned by the line manager, Managing Director and/or Directorate.
Job Requirements:

Education & Professional Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in social science l, environmental science, civil engineering, or another relevant area or equivalent professional experience

Work Experience

At least 2 years of relevant experience in Community Driven Development projects. Familiar with community-based social safeguarding.

Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes

Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable professional with strong initiative, judgment and adaptability as well as excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, decision-making, and reporting skills.

Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:

Key Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Familiar with community-based social safeguarding
  • Strong knowledge of social safeguards, including community engagement, inclusion, and protection of vulnerable groups
  • Excellent skills in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection and analysis, to ensure accurate reporting and documentation in line with donor requirements.
  • Fluency in written English and demonstrated ability to write and lay out high-quality documents,
  • Knowledge of Dari and Pashtu is compulsory.
  • High-level proficiency in office applications, including spread sheets, word processing, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
  • Excellent conceptual and analytical skills able to distil key ideas with clarity and precision.
  • Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to work with significant levels of autonomy, manage personal priorities and meet tight deadlines.
  • Resilience to travel and work in isolated and possibly insecure locations.
  • Flexible and dynamic with the ability to deal with difficult, often ambiguous and challenging situations and creatively solve problems.
  • Clear and firm commitment to the rights, equality, role and empowerment of women, minorities and persons with disabilities.
  • Excellent knowledge of community development and social mobilisation.
  • Gender sensitivity.
  • Sensitivity to Islamic culture.
  • Commitment to support/develop the capacity of the national staff and of rural communities.

Desirable

Previous work experience in the same position with INGOs

Submission Guidelines:

Please create your portal account and submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form by no later than 28 October 2025. Your covering letter and CV should be in PDF format.  Your covering letter should be no more than 1 standard A4 page in length and explain how you meet the essential and desirable position requirements and why you feel you would be a suitable candidate for this role. Your CV should be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer. Afghanaid has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Afghanaid is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

We invite qualified candidates to apply for the position through the Afghanaid HR portal. Please click on the link below to complete your application.

Link for the Afghanaid HR portal: https://afghanaid.odoo.com/jobs/detail/social-safeguards-officer-31

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful for shortlisting.

Note: Priority will be given to candidates from the local area. Local candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position. 

Submission Email:

https://afghanaid.odoo.com/jobs/detail/social-safeguards-officer-31

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