Community Based Facilitator CBF

Job Summary Key Duties and Responsibilities: • Plan and facilitate structured dialogues and learning sessions with men and boys using approved curricula and participatory methods. • Promote positive gender norms, non-violence, shared responsibility, respectful communication and support for women’s and adolescent girls’ access to services and skills. • Establish or strengthen male engagement networks and support members to undertake safe, practical community actions. • Engage community elders, religious leaders, youth representatives and other influential men to address barriers to women’s and girls’ participation. • Use age-appropriate, culturally sensitive methods and challenge harmful attitudes without confrontation, stigma or increased risk to participants. • Identify resistance, backlash, misinformation or protection concerns arising from sessions and agree mitigation actions with the supervisor. • Provide accurate information about safeguarding, PSEA, available services and confidential complaint channels and refer concerns through approved pathways. • Prepare session plans, attendance records and brief activity reports and document changes, challenges and community feedback without collecting unnecessary personal data. • Coordinate closely with social workers and WGSS personnel while maintaining the privacy and safety of women and adolescent girls. • Perform duties in accordance with OCHR policies, the signed Programme Document, the approved workplan, and applicable Donor standards and guidance. • Promote safe, dignified and inclusive access to services, applying do-no-harm, confidentiality, informed consent and survivor-centred principles. • Comply with OCHR safeguarding, child safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, code of conduct, anti-fraud and conflict-of-interest requirements. • Explain available feedback and complaint channels to participants and promptly report safeguarding concerns through approved confidential pathways. • Maintain accurate, sex- and age-disaggregated activity records and submit timely daily, weekly and monthly information to the supervisor using approved formats. • Coordinate respectfully with project colleagues, community representatives, relevant authorities and service providers while protecting personal data. • Participate in orientation, supervision, team meetings, capacity-building activities and performance reviews, and carry out other project-related duties assigned by the supervisor. Job Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Education, Community Development, Gender Studies or a related field; relevant diploma with strong experience may be considered. • Minimum two years of experience in community facilitation, social mobilization, gender programming, education or protection-related work. • Demonstrated ability to facilitate sensitive discussions with men and boys and manage resistance constructively. • Understanding of gender equality, positive masculinity, safeguarding, PSEA, do-no-harm, inclusion and referral principles. • Strong public-speaking, listening, mediation, group-management and basic reporting skills. • Good knowledge of local community structures and cultural and religious context in the duty location. • Fluency in the relevant local language is required; Dari and/or Pashto literacy and basic English are an advantage.