Project Team Leader - Protection, Kandahar

About the role

NRC Afghanistan is recruiting a Project Team Leader for its Protection activities in the Shah Wali Kot and Panjwayee districts of Kandahar. The role reports to the Multi CC Coordinator and supervises Protection Officers, Assistants and community-based workers, ensuring timely, safe, inclusive and quality implementation of protection interventions aligned with the PfV Country Strategy 2027-2030 and PAAS interventions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and supervise day-to-day delivery of PfV and PAAS project activities at CRC and field level, ensuring quality, accountability and compliance with SOPs and technical standards.
• Guide, coach and mentor Protection Officers, Assistants and community-based workers, and support their capacity building and technical training.
• Monitor implementation progress, resources and expenditure, and coordinate activity planning, procurement requests and resource allocation with Project Coordinators and the Multi-CC Coordinator.
• Supervise case identification, eligibility assessment, prioritization, case planning, follow-up and closure, and approve case plans within delegated authority.
• Oversee project monitoring, data collection, database maintenance and reporting, and consolidate field observations to inform protection analysis and programme adaptation.
• Represent NRC in district coordination meetings, coordinate with Core Competencies, MEAL teams and service providers, and escalate protection concerns to the Multi-CC Coordinator.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, social work, law, human rights, international development or a related field.
• At least 2 years supervising field staff and coordinating daily activities, and 3 years working with affected communities in humanitarian protection programming.
• Demonstrated experience in protection case management, community-based protection or protection monitoring.
• Knowledge of the duty station area; Dari, English and Pashto, with intermediate English.

Required skills

• Protection case management, Do No Harm, protection mainstreaming and protection risk analysis.
• MS Office, KOBO and protection information management tools.
• Data quality checks, data protection and confidentiality.

What we offer

• Monthly salary based on the NRC Afghanistan salary scale.
• Medical coverage for staff plus 4 dependents.
• Leave and holidays in line with the Afghanistan Labour Law.
• Top-up credit card on a monthly basis.