Social Worker Community Mobilizer

Job Summary Key Duties and Responsibilities: • Map target communities, stakeholders, services, access constraints and protection risks in coordination with the project team. • Conduct community outreach and explain project objectives, eligibility criteria, available services, schedules and feedback channels accurately. • Support transparent, non-discriminatory identification and verification of participants without making promises or requesting any payment or favour. • Coordinate with community elders, shuras, religious leaders, families, authorities and service providers to enable safe access for women and adolescent girls. • Support female project staff and safe-space teams with locally appropriate access arrangements, referrals, market linkages and community acceptance. • Conduct household visits, community dialogues and focus-group discussions using approved tools and safeguarding procedures. • Identify vulnerable individuals and protection concerns, obtain consent and facilitate referral through established pathways; do not undertake specialized case management unless trained and formally assigned. • Help establish and maintain community groups, participant lists, session schedules and follow-up records, ensuring data accuracy and confidentiality. • Monitor community perceptions, misinformation, exclusion risks and access barriers and report findings promptly to the supervisor. • 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 Work, Sociology, Community Development, Social Sciences or a related field. • Minimum two years of experience in social work, community mobilization, outreach, protection or humanitarian programming. • Good knowledge of the target communities, local structures, cultural norms and access conditions in Nuristan or Nangarhar. • Understanding of accountability to affected populations, safeguarding, PSEA, inclusion, referral and confidentiality principles. • Proven ability to engage respectfully with elders, authorities, men, boys, women and youth while supporting women’s and girls’ safe participation. • Strong facilitation, negotiation, conflict-sensitivity, data-collection and report-writing skills. • Fluency in the relevant local language is required; Dari and/or Pashto literacy and basic English are an advantage.