Humanitarian Access Group Co-Coordinator Afghanistan

The dedicated Humanitarian Access Group (HAG) Co-Coordinator is managed by NRC, but primarily accountable to the HAG membership itself, and purposefully intended to serve NGO interests within the Group. The position is expected to ensure strong collaboration and collective outcomes, provide guidance to the NRC Access Focal Point, and advise NRC Afghanistan on broader access issues.

NRC is looking for a Humanitarian Access Group (HAG) Co-Coordinator to join the Afghanistan mission. The HAG Co-Coordinator is accountable to the HAG membership and will serve NGO interests within the Group. The role holder will ensure strong collaboration and collective outcomes, provide guidance to the NRC Access Focal Point, and advise NRC Afghanistan on broader access issues. If you are an influential and strategic leader with strong analytical expertise, high integrity, and good interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, then this is the role for you!

What You Will Do

• Primary focal point for NGOs to the HAG.
• Foster collaboration among humanitarian actors.
• Humanitarian advocacy and negotiation support.
• Humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law compliance promotion.
• Monitor access trends and developments to identify constraints and implications.
• Access analysis, access reports, and policy dissemination contribution.
• Deliver, coordinate, and facilitate the planning and roll-out of training courses.
• Assist the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).
• Support HAG meetings.

What You Will Bring

• Conflict/post-conflict humanitarian experience.
• High risk, insecure, complex, and volatile context exposure.
• Forum coordination contribution experience.
• Policy and strategic guidance experience.
• Analysis, coordination, and stakeholder management experience.
• Protection principles knowledge in high-risk settings.
• Humanitarian access technical knowledge.
• Humanitarian principles understanding.
• Afghanistan context and the Afghan humanitarian community response experience and knowledge.
• English fluency, both written and verbal. Knowledge of the local language (Dari or Pushto).

What Makes This Position Attractive?

• The Humanitarian Access Group (HAG) is co-led between the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and NRC. It is one of the primary platforms dedicated to the strategic and operational coordination and improvement of humanitarian access in Afghanistan.
• The current context is set against a backdrop of various challenges: complex insecurity, bureaucratic restrictions, limited physical access, global conditions of political tensions and conflict situations, and the overall humanitarian response in the country is comprised of organisations whose primary interest is development rather than humanitarian.
• The opportunity to contribute to the protection and assistance of vulnerable women, girls, boys, and men displaced by conflict and/or in hard-to-reach areas. NRC Afghanistan maintains a presence in 14 provinces across the country with mobile teams accessing neighbouring areas. NRC Afghanistan is the largest INGO in the country, at a programmatic, field coverage, and staff count level.
• Meaningful work that responds to the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns raised by beneficiary communities. NRC Afghanistan meets immediate humanitarian needs, prevents further displacement, and contributes to durable solutions.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join our work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.

What We Offer

• Kabul, Afghanistan duty station.
• Fixed-term contract.
• Grade 8 in NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

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