About Watan Development and Initiative Organization (WDIO)

Watan Development and Initiative Organization (WDIO) was established in 2014 while it was reregistered with the Ministry of Economy on the same date it was established. WDIO was again registered with the government of Afghanistan in 2023 on registration # 3120. It is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political, and independent organization. The (WDIO) is an initiation of senior Afghan staff, specific professionals from different fields of activities, and other national and international organizations with many years of working experience in Afghanistan's normal and emergency state. The aim of the founders of (WDIO) is to transfer the experiences and expertise from several international organizations to an Afghan organization in order to ensure the sustainability of efforts as well as provide opportunities for Afghans to use their full potential in humanitarian and development activities. WDIO works in partnership with government, development, and implementing partners in the following four fields; Education, Agriculture and livestock, Health, and social affairs. WDIO will try its best to capacitate Afghans and other professionals in the mentioned four fields of services. WDIO is committed to applying a ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards acts of sexual exploitation and abuse by its personnel. In 2003, the United Nations Secretary-General issued a Bulletin on “Special measures for protection from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse” (ST/SGB/2003/13) (“the Bulletin”). To support the system-wide implementation of the zero-tolerance policy, the Director-General has decided to adopt the standards of conduct and provisions on PSEA set by the Bulletin, adjusted as necessary, to be applied by WDIO personnel, as follows.

Job Summary

Project assistant is responsible for the project manager and will assist technical and operational levels activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day support to project and thematic activities implementation with the aim to enable conformity to expected results, outputs, objectives and work-plans.
• Assists in the preparation of quarterly/annual progress reports by acquiring and assembling the necessary information from project officers using reporting templates.
•  Assists in project/thematic activities monitoring on the basis of related work plans.
• Drafts routine official correspondence/documents as per project/thematic activities needs.
• Manages the contact lists of project and thematic activities stakeholders.
• Maintains working-level contacts with partners and stakeholders.
• Manages the organization of events, workshops, roundtables, including the preparation and dissemination of information, and their follow-up communications.
• Follows up of travel arrangements and DSA payments for participants of events organized.
• Assists in the organization of field visits and staff missions as required by the project and thematic activities.
• Prepares all related background materials for discussions, correspondence and briefing sessions.
• Takes minutes of meetings• Cooperates with the Communications Department for related tasks, including related to updating projects’ websites.
• Coordinates information flow to assist overall GWP-Med reporting and/or submission deadlines are met by project/program staff.
• Supports the Project Coordinator/GWP-Med Deputy Regional Coordinator in performing duties.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 1 years working experience in similar positions with national and international NGOs.
• Bachelor's Degree in education, social science or any other related field.
• Required Languages – Excellent Pashto and Dari reading, writing, and verbal skills, good knowledge of English, reading, writing, and verbal skills.  

Submission Guideline

Interested applicants could submit their CV and cover letter via the link below:

https://jobs.af/jobs/project-assistant-HCPmMCduZ/apply

Functional Area

Project Coordination

Countries

Afghanistan

Provinces

Bamyan

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