About the job
Christian Aid and Cordaid have entered into a long-term strategic collaboration in Afghanistan to strengthen programme effectiveness, operational efficiency, and locally led development and humanitarian action. Under this collaboration, Cordaid will serve as the lead implementing organization in Afghanistan, assuming responsibility for programme implementation, partner engagement, grant management, risk management, and country-level coordination and oversight. Christian Aid will support the joint programme through strategic engagement, fundraising, donor relations, technical support, advocacy, and the provision of annual block grants and other funding opportunities.
To facilitate this partnership, Cordaid will recruit a Programme Coordinator who will act as the principal coordination focal point between the two organizations while serving as the Secretariat of the Joint Coordination Committee.
The incumbent will report to the Regional/ Country Director.
Responsibilities
Partnership Coordination
Serve as the primary liaison between Cordaid Afghanistan and Christian Aid Asia MCC by coordinating joint activities, supporting the Joint Coordination Committee, facilitating communication, organizing meetings, documenting decisions, tracking follow-up actions and maintaining strong institutional partnerships. The position will explore opportunities for programme development under the joint strategy.
Planning and Coordination
Coordinate annual programme planning, support work plan development and implementation, manage block grant planning, monitor progress against priorities, ensure coordination across teams and partners, and promote integrated humanitarian and emergency response, development, and advocacy programming jointly with Cordaid teams such as M&E, Humanitarian, Governance/ Economic Empowerment (Progarmme).
Monitoring, Learning and Reporting
The Programme Coordinator works closely with Cordaid's PMEAL team to coordinate programme monitoring, reporting, and information management. The role ensures timely and high-quality reporting, consolidates programme data, supports data quality assurance, captures lessons learned and good practices, promotes organizational learning and adaptive management, and coordinates inputs to Christian Aid's corporate reporting systems and requirements.
Donor Coordination
Work closely with Cordaid, CAID Asia MCC and partners to ensure oversight, coordinate reporting, compliance, and information sharing while supporting proposal development and promoting programme achievements to strengthen fundraising, advocacy and resource mobilization.
Partner Coordination
Support implementing partner engagement by coordinating meetings, conduct parters due diligence. risk management, sharing timely information, strengthening partner capacity through on-site and off-site mentoring and visits, and promoting locally led approaches and partner leadership.
Information Management
Manage programme documentation, coordinate cross-organizational updates, and maintain tracking systems while preparing dashboards, briefings, and management reports.
Advocacy and Communication
Coordinate programme information, communications, and visibility activities to support advocacy, document impact, develop communication products, and ensure compliance with agreed external visibility requirements.
Operational Coordination
Coordinate and support Christian Aid missions to Afghanistan by liaising with programme, operations, and security teams of Cordaid, facilitating logistics, and ensuring that all agreed operational protocols are implemented.
Integrity
Showcases integrity standards as outlined in Cordaid’s integrity policies. Fulfills integrity responsibilities as outlined in Cordaid’s Integrity Framework and Standard Operating Procedures. Actively contributes to a safe environment within their scope of influence by encouraging dialogue, trust, as well as understanding and adherence to Cordaid’s integrity standards and procedures.
Other
Any other duties assigned by the Country Director or required by the donor/CAID.
