Job Profile

● Afghanaid is an equal opportunity employer and women are strongly encouraged to apply.
● Afghanaid has robust security management practices in place and continually strives to ensure the safety
and security of its personnel and consultants

Job Title: Civil Engineer for rural communities

Status National Hire

Type of Recruitment Full time

Line Manager Lead Engineer

Overview Manager Package Manager

Coordinating with Colleagues in Operations & other Departments

Staff reporting directly to this position:

Sex Male/Female

Work base: Herat Zaval, Farah Gulistan and Faryab Qaisar district

Travel Requirement N/A

Contract length 16 months

Anticipated Starting Date 01 April 2024

Salary Grade

The Organisation

Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul
and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through
partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar, Khost and Paktia. For 4
decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with
the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work
supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable
livelihoods and food security; adapting to climate change and reducing disaster risk, and emergency
humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution
to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict
mitigation and peacebuilding.

Projects:

Community Resilience and Livelihoods project in Herat Zaval district, Farah Gulistan district, Farayb Qaisar
district, Herat and Balkh Cities

Job profile

The Community Resilience and Livelihoods Project Engineers for rural communities in general will be
responsible for the overall engineering works of the project including planning, organizing, implementation,
coordination and reporting in provincial and district level.
Responsibilities:
● Technical engineering assessments in relation to surveying, designing, cost estimating, skilled and
unskilled labor employment and material (type and quantity) identification.
● Support to the CDC and to look after all sub-projects construction materials and equipment during
project implementation.
● Support a strong and continuous focus in all aspects of the projects.
● Preparation of technical designs, cost estimates and infrastructural maps for proposed projects and
any other projects requiring rehabilitation and upgrading.
● Conduct detailed feasibility studies and detailed engineering design for selected projects.
● Prepare proposals and engineering designs, plans for the construction, service delivery and related
projects.
● Prepare project progress reports.
● Ensure Support of CDC participatory monitoring team and project workers and monitoring their work.
● Supporting CDC on the project expenditure against budget and progress of work on a monthly basis.
● Ensure Supporting the CDCs and its procurement sub-committees on the procurement process of
project Requirements are done by field engineers.
● Make sure the confirmation and approval of all financial documents by CDC and its record in CDC file
● Preparing a clear report from all steps and submit to the lead engineers.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education & Professional Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related field.

Work Experience
At least 5 years’ experience for a cash-for-work project implemented by Communities (CDC), good knowledge
on community base project survey, design and project implementation.

Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes

Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable with strong initiative, judgment and adaptability as well as
excellent skills in communication, organisational, interpersonal relations, decision-making and reporting.

Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:

Key Skills and Competencies

Essential
● Fluency in written English and demonstrated ability to write and lay out high-quality
documents,
● Knowledge of Dari and Pashtu is compulsory.
● High-level proficiency in office applications, including spread sheets, word processing,
PowerPoint, and Outlook.
● Excellent conceptual and analytical skills able to distil key ideas with clarity and precision.
● Strong organizational and coordination skills, able to work with significant levels of
autonomy, manage personal priorities and meet tight deadlines.
● Resilience to live, travel and work in isolated and possibly insecure locations.
● Flexible and dynamic with the ability to deal with difficult, often ambiguous and challenging
situations and creatively solve problems.
● Clear and firm commitment to the rights, equality, role and empowerment of women,
minorities and persons with disabilities.
 Desirable
Previous work experience in the same positon with INGOs

Other Information
Afghanaid’s core values are creativity, fairness and honesty. Our staff are passionate about and proud of their
work. Teamwork is fundamental to our standards and is demonstrated by taking initiative, assisting others and
taking on additional responsibilities / tasks if necessary. We are results driven, committed and motivated to
achieve targets and take accountability for our own actions.

Our remuneration and benefits package is competitive with other similar organisations. This position presents
an excellent opportunity for someone who has the ambition and determination to move up in their career.

To Apply
Please submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form and email a completed
application form, covering letter and your CV, by no later than Sunday 20th March 2024 to
vacancies@afghanaid.org.uk ; including your name, vacancy number and the job title in the subject line. Your
covering letter should be no more than 1 standard A4 page in length and explain how you meet the essential and
desirable position requirements and why you feel you would be a suitable candidate for this role. Your CV should
be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer. The precision
and style with which you present yourself in your covering letter and CV will be given significant weight in short
listing candidates. Application with no proper subject (requested above), without the application form or
submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are
unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the deadline, then you
have not been successful for shortlisting.

Please note that applying without filling the standard job application form will result in disqualifying the
applications to review for shortlisting.

Link for the Afghanaid Standard Job Application form:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vLmMCTTa7peZ-8Odm-L4xm_5ULr6nvRG

Note: This job description does not form part of the contract of employment and is subject to change in
accordance with the needs of the organisation. The post-holder will work at all times in a way which is consistent
with the organisation’s commitment to equality of opportunity.

Staff Member Signature:

Updated: Feb 2024