Quality and Accountability Assistant

Organizational Context

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 192-member National Societies. The overall aim of the IFRC is “to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.” IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises. IFRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement), together with its member National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The work of the IFRC is guided by the following fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. IFRC is led by its Secretary General, and has its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Headquarters are organized into three main Divisions: (i) National Society Development and Operations Coordination; (ii) Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization; and (iii) Management Policy, Strategy and Corporate Services. IFRC has five regional offices in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. IFRC also has country cluster delegation and country delegations throughout the world. Together, the Geneva Headquarters and the field structure (regional, cluster and country) comprise the IFRC Secretariat. IFRC has had a consistent presence in Afghanistan since 1990 to support the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) in its organizational development, auxiliary role and outreach, humanitarian diplomacy, partnership development, humanitarian response operations, and longer-term programming. A core part of IFRC’s mission is to coordinate and support the work of member National Societies, driving the transformations that are essential for the IFRC network to fulfil full potential as a global humanitarian actor – engaged, accountable and trusted – and to deliver on an agreed agenda. The IFRC Secretariat as well as engages with the ICRC on Movement Coordination and Cooperation in line with an existing Movement Cooperation Agreement. In addition to the ICRC and the IFRC Secretariat, other Movement partners with presence in Afghanistan are Canadian Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, Norwegian Red Cross, Qatar Red Crescent Society and Turkish Red Crescent. Currently, Afghanistan is reeling from a complex humanitarian crisis resulting from a convergence of drought, food insecurity, displacement, gaps in essential services including health, economic hardship, and effects of a conflict which spanned decades, among others.

Job Purpose

The overall purpose of this job is to provide administrative and logistic support to IFRC Quality and Accountability team and to contribute to efficient functioning of the Quality and accountability of the programme.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

o Provide administrative and logistic support the Quality and Accountability Team in organizing the lesson learnt workshops and other training events. o Support the team in partnership management by attending regular meetings and record the minutes, in agreed formats. o Follow up with the NSs to ensure submission of narrative and financial reports related to PMER, CEA and PGI activities. o Review the financial documents including bills, invoices etc received from ARCS related to PGI, CEA and PMER activities. o Provide translation support, especially with ARCS colleagues, in relation to regular program implementation matters. o Communicate with ARCS to follow up the progress of CEA, PGI and PMER activities, collect the desired information and photos for reporting purposes. o Support the team in exit interview and PDM survey for interview and data collection of female beneficiaries. o Support the team in cleaning of data collected during exit interview and PDM survey. o Support to Carry out other tasks as required and mutually agreed by the line manager and the employee.

Education

Required: Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or related field

Experience

Required: -Working experience as intern and involvement in administrative and logistic activities. – Familiarities with work and principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

 Knowledge, Skills and Languages

Required: – Office administration basic skills – Basic report writing and analysis skills – Effective communication skills – moderate command in written English – – Proficient in computer literacy (Microsoft Office suite) – Moderate skills in spoken and written English – Fluent in Dari and Pashto

 Competencies, Values and Comments

-Values: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability -Managerial Competencies: Managing Performance, Managing Staff Development-Core Competencies: Communication; Collaboration and teamwork; Judgement and decision making; National society and customer relations; Creativity and innovation; Building trust -Functional Competencies: Strategic orientation; Building alliances; Leadership; Empowering others Female Applicants Are Highly Encouraged To Apply.