Project Team Leader - Protection, Kandahar

About the role

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is hiring a Project Team Leader for Protection activities in Shah Wali Kot and Panjwayee districts of Kandahar, Afghanistan. The post 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 in line with NRC policies, technical standards and SOPs. The position is open only to male candidates.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and supervise the day-to-day delivery of Protection activities at field level, ensuring quality, accountability and compliance with SOPs and technical standards.
• Provide guidance, coaching and support to Protection Officers, Assistants and community-based workers, including daily task allocation, performance monitoring and capacity-building needs.
• Prepare and submit regular progress, activity and field monitoring reports, and maintain safe document management and data protection.
• Monitor implementation quality through regular field visits, and support risk identification, reporting and accountability to affected populations.
• Supervise protection case management, including case identification, prioritization, planning, follow-up and closure, and ensure safe, confidential information gathering.
• Support community self-protection activities, community engagement and participatory risk analysis, and refer community needs outside the protection mandate to other NRC Core Competencies.
• Coordinate with NRC Core Competencies, MEAL teams and service providers, and represent NRC in local coordination meetings.
• Identify staff capacity-building needs and support technical training and mentoring.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, social work, law, human rights, international development or another relevant field.
• Minimum 2 years supervising field staff and coordinating daily activities, and 3 years working with affected communities in protection programming.
• Demonstrated experience implementing protection activities, including case management, community-based protection or protection monitoring.
• Sound knowledge of humanitarian protection principles, Do No Harm, protection mainstreaming and protection case management procedures.
• Knowledge of the context in the area of responsibility and proficiency in Dari and/or Pashto, with intermediate English.

Required skills

• Proficiency in MS Office, KOBO and protection information management tools, with data cleaning and validation.
• Good communication and reporting skills.

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.
• A monthly credit card top-up.

Candidates apply through the online application form, must complete a full CV profile and attach their Afghan national ID.