Purpose and Scope of Assignment
Women Economic Empowerment Offi cer will support the CRLP Rural Team Lead and the team as required in liaising with the local community and authorities to ensure the project can be implemented as per schedule and scope, addressing the day to day concerns of the community, updating on project’s progress, project’s plans, etc. The responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Key Responsibilities
● Conduct Training of Trainers (ToTs) for staff and community groups, including Community Development Councils (CDCs), Community Resilience Groups (CRGs), and farmers, focusing on kitchen gardening techniques.
● Provide technical training on the jam-making process and pickling to enhance local food preservation skills.
● Deliver practical training sessions to farmers on innovative farming techniques to optimize agricultural practices and productivity.
● Train farmers in the selection and cultivation of crop varieties that are well-suited to their specifi c farming conditions.
● This addition ensures that the activities are clearly outlined as responsibilities of the Women Economic Empowerment Offi cer without being overly specifi c in the Work Experience section.
Planning and Coordination:
● Plan, organize, manage meetings/focus groups for UNOPS with stakeholders and or with any other agencies or person if so requested, including organizing meeting spaces, agendas, methodologies of running the events, preparation of relevant material, post processing of the results of the events such as mapping the results, reporting, sharing with team and follow up activities;
● Facilitate the smooth liaison between coordination entities, working groups, stakeholders from civil society, international and local NGOs,
● Organize and implement activities of collection of information and strategy defi nition for the implementation of the project. (examples: stakeholders mapping, interviews/focus group with stakeholders, collect best practice examples, contextualized inputs, work with UNOPS team and transfer the acquired knowledge to colleagues, and similar);
Community Engagement and Implementation:
● To review the women economic empowerment related documents such modules, manuals, technical guidelines and step by step guidelines
● To provide the technical assistance in the areas of poultry/jam making and pickling
● To ensure the quality of technical trainings provided to women headed households in the areas of income-generating and/or production activities kitchen gardening and food processing activities (e.g. jam/pickle making, other vegetable/fruit processing,) and poultry rearing
● To see whether asset production packages has been transferred to targeted women headed households benefi ciaries
● To confi rm whether the the women economic empowerment benefi ciaries have practically started the utilization of asset production packages
● To have close coordination with FPs and provide full support to fi eld technical colleagues if needed
● To provide guidance to the fi eld colleagues on technical issues
● To ensure the smooth implementation of component 3b women economic empowerment activity in fi eld ● Conduct fi eld visits according to approved plans to monitor and evaluate project eff ectiveness and success.
Communication and Reporting:
● Report to the CRLP Rural Team Lead on a daily and weekly basis on community issues and the project’s performance in relation to those issues;
● Keep up with the weekly and daily developments of the project;
● Inform CRLP Team Lead when there is issue between the community members and the project staff ;
● Acting as a focal point for the project on behalf of the CRLP Rural Team Lead within UNOPS and other stakeholders as required;
● Assist UNOPS in the identifi cation of potential implementation problems and bottlenecks,
● Perform other duties as may be assigned
● Collaborate with community members and CRGs leaders to ensure eff ective execution of women economic activities to achieve the project objectives.
4. Qualifications and Experience
A. Education
● Bachelor’s Degree in Economic/ Development Studies /Social Science or related fi eld is required ;
B. Work Experience
● A minimum of 2 years of experience in women’s economic activities, including providing training and capacity-building support in agriculture, farming, and related subjects.
● Experience in conducting technical training sessions for community groups, including but not limited to kitchen gardening, food processing, and other income-generating activities.
● Proven ability to work with local communities in the creation and execution of humanitarian and development projects.
● Prior experience with government development bodies, NGOs, INGOs, UN/UNOPS, or similar humanitarian and development actors is a signifi cant advantage.
C. Languages
● Excellent English language writing, editing, and verbal skills.
● Knowledge of Pashto and/or Dari language will be an asset.
