AWEC is a non-political, non-profit, woman-headed national organization established in 1991 by a group of educated Afghan women in exile, who rallied together to address the lack of facilities for Afghan refugees in Islamabad and eventually Peshawar, in Pakistan. AWEC has always been involved in advocacy and awareness-raising for women and children’s rights while providing services to those who frequently fall through safety nets. In recent years, one of AWEC’s core activities has been to support women through mobilizing Afghans, from local communities to political elites, towards the goal of reducing and eventually eliminating violence against women.

Our vision in AWEC is “an inclusive and just society with sensitized and responsive public and private sector, where all women and children have access to opportunities to improve their quality of life in order to realize their full potential”.

AWEC has zero tolerance approach to the AWEC Code of Conduct including safeguarding, SH, and Fraud violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.

Job Description:

The objective of such a role is to ensure that during the project implementation phase,
sufficient resources will be allocated to strengthen gender capacity at the country level within the project
country team and ensure dedicated gender technical support, monitoring, training, and knowledge
management/ production is available to all grantees and sub-grantees.

Ensure the implementation of all the gender deliverables in the project (gender mainstreaming
and gender-targeted strategies)
✓ Lead on capacity building and knowledge building, and management on gender equality and
empowerment of women and girls in EiEPC
✓ Provide strategic advice to the project steering committee for the integration of gender
✓ Serve as quality assuror in project implementation, ensuring gender issues are properly addressed.

✓ Support in the creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of resource mobilization
strategies.

1. Ensure the implementation of a gender-responsive project with a focus on the following
results:
- Support grantees to implement the project in a gender-responsive manner (in line with the gender
priorities identified in the project document and global/donor guidance on gender in EiEPC2).
- Establish the project grantees and sub-grantees gender focal point team and hold a regular
coordination meeting to discuss issues and find solutions.
- Ensure the gender analysis in the EiEPC context is up-to-date and available to all project country
team.
- Ensure the project monitoring and evaluation is gender-responsive: review and provides inputs on
the formulation of work plans, budgets, monitoring, and evaluation mechanism (set milestones
and indicators for achievement)
- Ensure the IASC GAM monitoring tool3 is used at the end of the first year of implementation, and
lessons learned are collectively identified to strengthen implementation the following year.
- Complete the brief project gender profile in collaboration with the Gender Manager
- Provide critical feedback and inputs on the implementation of specific program components in
mainstreaming gender
- Ensure gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is strongly reflected in the annual
report and in the annual performance assessment review, including the provision of key human interests
stories highlighting how the project is contributing to gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls.
- Support grantees to identify local women's organizations for collaboration and partnership as
relevant and ensure local women's organizations are meaningfully engaged in the project
implementation.
2. Capacity building and knowledge building and management on gender issues to project
country team achieving the following results:
- Identify gender capacity gaps amongst the project country team and ensure adequate support is
provided (training of gender focal points, coaching,..) in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
in-country (Gender Taskforce, Gencap, GBV Taskforce, and others) based on earmarked project
funding available in the budget.
- Identify local and/or regional resources and networks that can be accessed for knowledge building
of project country team on gender equality and empowerment of women and girls

- Contribute as relevant to knowledge networks and communities of practice on gender in EiEPC
- Organize the documentation of lessons learned and best practices.

3. Support in the creation of strategic partnerships and alliance-building for the promotion of gender
equality and empowerment of women and girls in EiEPC:
- Participation in partnership with UN Agencies, donors, government institutions, and civil
society in the promotion of gender equality and women and girls' empowerment in EiEPC with a
particular focus on key issues (nexus, localization, local women organizations, GBV risk
mitigation,…).
- Liaise as necessary with in-country gender coordination mechanisms and actors (Gender, GBV,
PSEA) as relevant.
- Contribution to the overall project country team effort in resource mobilization.
- Preparation of draft project briefs, advocacy materials, and presentations related to gender equality
and women and girls’ empowerment in the project.

Job Requirements:

Master Degree or equivalent in Women Studies, Social Science or related field focus on gender issues

3-5 years Experience

• Strong networking, and communication skills
• Ability to work in unstable insecurity environments and tight schedules
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Fluency in English

Interested candidates are requested to send their applications along with their CVs to the attention of following address recruitment@awec.info

Kindly mention vacancy number and position title in your email's subject line, otherwise you won't be shortlisted. All shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for test/Interview.

“Being committed to diversity & equal employment opportunity we highly encourage females & people living with disabilities to apply,  all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, language, religious sect.”