The Southern Region (SR) is one of the most vulnerable and hazard-prone areas in Afghanistan, facing a complex mix of natural and human-induced emergencies. The region includes key provinces such as Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Uruzgan, and Nimroz. These challenges range from natural hazards—including recurrent droughts, flash floods, and outbreaks of AWD/cholera—to human-induced pressures such as border tensions and geopolitical dynamics, notably the large-scale deportation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran.  The scale and pace of returns are placing unprecedented strain on the region’s already fragile systems. Thousands of deportees arrive daily through the Milak border in Nimroz and via Spin Boldak, overwhelming transit centers, stretching already inadequate WASH infrastructure, and placing additional pressure on host communities that are already struggling with drought, disease, and prolonged displacement. The Southern Region’s chronic drought conditions have further exacerbated the WASH crisis, increasing the risk of waterborne diseases and deepening humanitarian needs.

In alignment with its Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCC), our client is delivering a multi-sectoral and integrated response to support returnee families and children arriving from Pakistan and Iran through the Spin Boldak and Milak border. This response encompasses a wide range of services across key sectors. Health interventions include the provision of primary healthcare, routine immunization, maternal and neonatal care, stabilization services, and Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) units. In the area of nutrition, our client supports the screening of children under five and pregnant and lactating women for wasting, the provision of outpatient treatment for severe acute malnutrition (OPD SAM), and referrals through containerized spaces established by our client. WASH services focus on ensuring access to clean drinking water through both existing and newly established water supply systems, the construction of sanitation facilities, the distribution of essential WASH supplies, and hygiene promotion activities. In the child protection sector, our client facilitates the screening and identification of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC), provision of food and refreshment, interim care, followed by family tracing and reunification efforts, provision of psychosocial first aid to children accompanied with their families through CFS, identification and reunification of the missing children, raising awareness of parents with critical CP messages and EORE. Education support is also provided, alongside cross-cutting services such as Social and Behavior Change (SBC) interventions and gender-responsive programming. All these interventions are implemented through our client’s network of implementing partners (IPs). To ensure effective coordination and oversight, an EMERGENCY EXTENDER has been designated. 

The Emergency Extender is responsible for organizing area-based coordination across key border reception centers, mainly Spin Boldak and Milak, as well as returnee settlement areas. The role supports and monitors emergency responses in any affected communities, ensuring the integration of activities and delivery of a multi-sectoral response in collaboration with our client's partners, programme extenders, and relevant line departments. The Emergency Extender collects and verifies timely field data, streamlines reporting processes, and prepares concise updates for Health, WASH, and other our client's sections to support evidence-based decision-making.

 The role involves harmonizing efforts among our client’s implementing partners, extenders, it includes monitoring our Client's-supported interventions, identifying gaps, facilitating cross-sector coordination, and providing regular updates on progress, challenges, and emerging needs in line with our client’s Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, to ensure a high-quality and well-coordinated response for returnee women and children.

Key Activities:

• Monitor and support our client’s multi-sectoral response interventions for returnees in alignment with interagency efforts, including regular participation in camp management committee meetings at the Reception Center (RC) in Spin Boldak and Milak border.

• Support the organization of regular and ad-hoc coordination meetings with our client IPs, extenders, and other frontline workers; document meetings and follow up on action points.

• Actively participate in coordination meetings at the RC to support the coordination and management of field-level activities.

• Provide technical guidance and operational support (as per his expertise) to field staff, government counterparts, and implementing partners.

• Identify training needs and support capacity-building activities for local staff and partners.

• Document lessons learned and best practices and ensure timely reporting to our client and relevant stakeholders.

• Assist in conducting assessments, drafting reports, and supporting emergency response for crisis-affected populations in the Southern Region (SR).

Monitoring and Reporting

• Support daily monitoring of our client-supported activities and interventions in Health, Nutrition, Polio, WASH, Child Protection, SBC, Education, and Gender at the RC; share findings and observations with the Emergency Officer.

• Follow up with IP focal points at the RC to ensure issues identified by our client monitoring teams are addressed; provide status updates.

• Conduct daily supervision and monitoring of health, nutrition, WASH, and child protection services at the RC; share feedback with relevant IPs and ensure regular reporting on gaps and needs.

Data Collection and Management

• Maintain an updated dataset covering health, nutrition, polio, child protection, WASH, SBC, gender, and other relevant data needed for our client’s emergency response planning and implementation.

• Regularly collect data from IPs, update systems, and provide figures and information in a timely manner, with a focus on consistency and accuracy.

• Undertake field visits and surveys, and/or collect and share information with partners and stakeholders to assess progress; provide technical support or refer to relevant officials for resolution. Report on critical issues, bottlenecks, and potential problems to enable timely action. 

Indicators and deliverable

• Share daily updates regarding any developments in the returnees RC across 3 borders in SR.

• Conduct daily visits to field to oversee the emergency response

• Monitor the ongoing joint response

• Assist assessments and response

• Collect data from IPs in Spin Boldak and Milak to keep an updated dataset about our client’s ongoing interventions to the returnees.

• Share weekly and ad-hoc monitoring reports along with the photos and recommendations. 

• Participate in coordination/operational meetings at the RC and share minutes/reports

• Provide timely inputs to reports/ trackers on our client’s returnees response at the RC.

• Inputs to monthly situation reports and coordination updates.

• Documentation of best practices and case studies.

The Emergency Extender will be directly supervised by our client’s Emergency Officer in the Southern Region.

Reports to be submitted and frequency:

• Weekly updates to the Emergency Officer

• Consolidated monthly report 

Education:

• University degree Public Health, Social Science, Engineering, MBA, or any other related field. 

Experience:

• At least 3 - 4 years of relevant professional experience in coordination, project implementation, emergency response, or humanitarian coordination.

• Emergency preparedness and response plans

• Effectively coordinate emergency response within inter-agency humanitarian coordination

• Experience in coordination of field work and community engagement is essential.  

• Experience working with the UN, NGOs, or government counterparts in humanitarian settings is preferred.

Skills and Competencies:

• Proficiency in MS. Office. 

• Good coordination, communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Strong report writing and analytical skills.

• Fluency in local language, with working knowledge of English.

Supervision and Work Arrangements:

• The Emergency Extender will coordinate closely with other field staff, partners, extenders, and relevant sectoral departments.

• Travel to project locations, including hard-to-reach areas.

Note: While the Emergency Extender is based at the three border points; Spin Boldak, Milak, and Bahramcha, S/He will be deployed to any of these locations or other crisis-affected districts in the Southern Region, depending on operational needs and the scale of our client’s emergency response.