Curriculum Vitae

Date: 08/04/2023

To: Youth Health and Development Organization (YHDO)

Subject: Psychosocial counsellor, Badakhshan

Vacancy Number: 522

Dear Sir/Madam

I am pleased to see the announcement for the position of (Psychosocial counsellor) I am very much
interested in the mentioned position as my educational background and work experience are compatible
with the requirements of the vacancy announced. It has always been a very strong drive for me to work
for well-reputed organization and to be able to use my knowledge and experience for the organization’s
growth and my own development.

I am graduated from Agriculture Faculty of Kunduz Province and have a diploma from Said Jan nursing
institute and have more than 7 years of extensive expertise and technical skills in Project management,
coordination, government liaison and communication skills, community mobilization, child protection,
event Planning, M&E and Result Based Report Writing with International Organizations and government
sponsored projects in Northern provinces of Afghanistan.

I have enclosed a copy of my resume for your further consideration and would appreciate the opportunity
to meet with you to discuss my application and qualifications with details in the interview.

Sincerely yours
 Mohammad Firooz Sarahat
Kunduz-Takhar Main road PD#4, Kunduz, Afghanistan
Phone: +93 790 10 85 72 or +93 787 11 75 27
firozsarahat45@gmail.com

Professional Summary
6+ years of experience working with the international community, Strong ability to handle multiple tasks,
pay attention to detail, converse in English, Project Management Skills, deliver timely reports, and
collaborate with others. Attending to the meetings, presenting the presentation, following up the financial
issues, Establishing and training the cooperatives, NRM Management Skills, Orchard Management Skills,
IPM Skills, Pruning of Fruit trees, Establishing and training the CFAs and IAs (Community Forest
Associations and Irrigation Associations) managing accounts and files, ensuring the compliance of
documents. And Writing of success stories.
Core qualifications
 Data Collection  Reporting
 PC & MS. Office Proficient  Government liaison
 Documenting and Reporting  Planning
 Community mobilization  Training
Experiences:
Child protection Psychosocial Counselor June 2022-Ongoing
HYSIO/UNICEF Kunduz Province

Responsibilities:

 Provide psychological support (one on one or group counseling) to the project target groups
according to international principles and policies or other methodologies decided by the HYSI
organization.
 Assessment of IDP settlement for the establishment of child-friendly spaces.
 Assist in the development and provision of psychosocial activities to IDPs, UASC, GBV victims,
war-affected and other children at risk.
 Undertake the social investigation about each individual child case and ensure that all related
information is collected properly through reliable sources.
 Conduct training for the community on psychological child development and parenting skills, etc.
 Supervise and provide counseling training and technical counseling support to social workers,
volunteers, community structures, CFS facilitators directly involved with the psychosocial
component of the project.
 Monitoring the child-friendly spaces for ensuring adequate child protection services.
 Ensure timely implementation of psychosocial support activities for affected children.
 Coordinate services to beneficiaries with other organizational entities involved in psychosocial
and mental health services.
 Conduct home visits to assess individual psychosocial needs.
 Develop a plan to follow up the referred cases
 Ensure professionalism in services delivery and ethics while performing other duties as required.
 Compile monthly and quarterly counseling reports on the referred cases and provide the best
solutions to cases.
 Prepare and provide monthly report to the coordinator for ensuring effective and timely
implementation of the project.
 Perform any other professional duty assigned to the Coordinator.

Child Protection Officer Jan 2021- March 2022

ADWSO/UNICEF Kunduz Province
Responsibilities:
 Represent ADSWO at the district and provincial level and liaise and NGOs and local government
authorities in order to inform them of ADSWO
 Identify and select the project beneficiaries in coordination with local government authorities
 Conduct site visit and oversee the project activities to ensure quality project implementation
 Conduct regular orientation and training sessions to the project team including social workers
 Work with the team to select appropriate communities and locations for establishment Child
Friendly Space (CFS) and provide necessary supports to community members for smooth
implementation of activities in the field
 Produce regular weekly, monthly and quarterly report to reflect the project achievements

Vocational training officer Jul 2019- Dec 2020

ADWSO/UNICEF Kunduz Province
Responsibilities:
 Conduct training needs assessments and recognize most needed vocational trainings for children
in the form of apprenticeship program
 Develop training material and conduct short-term IDP children in various locations
 Identify locations and in coordination with other team members assign/hire trainers for
organization for the children
 Developing curriculum for each skill separately with assistance of master trainers
 Introduction of children as apprentice for vocational shops to learn vocational skills and singing
contract with both apprentices and master trainers for apprenticeship program.
 Ensure all vocational skills are well planned, have clear manuals delineating objectives, lessons,
and outcomes.
 Liaise with key team members to ensure trainings on key topics are taking place according to the
curriculum and targets set for the programmer.
 Ensure all vocational skill-building take place in a safe environment and make sure availability of
needed material for vocational skills activities within vocational shops.
 Document all training activities and reports in a timely and accurate manner.
 Developing business plan for children who are interned for business start-up.

Field Coordinator (RADP-North-USAID funded Projects) Dec 2018- June 2019

ACDI/VOCA/DAI/RADP-North Kunduz Province
Responsibilities:
 Provide support in selection of project implementation sites and beneficiaries in target districts
of Kunduz province.
 Support implementation of project baseline and end line data collection.
 Responsible for all aspects of project implementation at the community level; develop project
agreements; ensure that all project activities are completed in a timely, efficient and accurate
manner according to schedule and to the highest standards.
 Take the lead in development and translation of training materials for ToF and FFS
 Coordinate with respective community members and relevant stakeholders (government
departments, the project donor and other NGOs) for implementation of project activities.
 Help the technical team with development of annual work plan through attending discussion
events and providing technical inputs
 Facilitate meetings, training events and focus group sessions for lead and basic farmers
 Daily visits of ongoing activities in the target districts to ensure that activities are in-line with
annual, monthly and quarterly work plans
 File all project documents (hard and soft)
 Develop and submit weekly, quarterly and monthly reports

Field Supervisor (USAID funded project of RADP-North) May 2017 to Oct 2017
ACDI/VOCA Kunduz province
Responsibilities:
 Ensure timely and proper coordination between the project beneficiaries, relevant governmental
departments and the project implementing partner
 Conduct site visits for monitoring effective implementation of activities and ensure project
experiences and successes are appropriately documented and disseminated, and promote cross
project learning and effective coordination across all provinces
 Participate in district and provincial level meetings and represent the project by proving
information to the meeting participants including GIRoA officials
 Conduct training need assessment for lead farmers, extension workers and DAIL employees,
recommend capacity development plans and organize training sessions, events and seminars as
per the work-plan.
 Interview the individuals for success stories or highlights.
 Maintain weekly reporting and communications with clients and disseminate with Provincial
Implementation Manager

Field Supervisor (UNDP funded project of MAIL/ASPR) Dec 2013 to July 2014
ASPR (UNDP/MAIL) Kunduz province
Responsibilities:
 Working with beneficiary community members to identify skilled and unskilled labors for
reforestation projects in Kunduz province
 Keeping track of the labors in the field to make sure they are paid against the specific days they
have worked in the field
 Provide technical instructions for skilled labors on how to dig terraces, pits, and protection
ditches, manage the nursery activities, transplantation of saplings, irrigation and protection of
pistachio fields

Trainer (USAID funded project of SIKA-North) Jan 2012 – April 2013

SIKA-North (USAID/DAI) Kunduz province
Responsibilities:

Certificates:
 July 16-July 27/2022 Certificate of participatory being in training for 11 days about Child
Protection, Case Management, Social Working, PFA, PSEA, GBV and MRE Conducted by
HYSI/UNICEF in Baghlan Province.
 April 04- April 13/2022 Certificate of participatory for 9 days about Child protection, Social
working and Case management conducted by ADWSO/ UNICEF in Balkh Province.
 Oct 26-Oct 28/2021 Certificate the completion of community dialogue training conducted by
ADWSO/UNICEF in Kunduz Province.
 Nov 25-Nov 27 Certificate of participatory Child protection conducted by ADWSO/UNICEF
 July 25-July 27/2019 Certificate of participatory Child protection, PFA, MHPSS conducted by
ADWSO/UNICEF
 Aug 18-Aug29/2019 Certificate of participatory for 11 days about Child protection, PFA, PSS,
MHPSS, PSEA, GBV and Case management conducted by UNICEF in Balkh Province

Education
BSc of Agriculture 2012 - 2016
Kunduz University, Agriculture Faculty Kunduz

Diploma in Nursing 2014 - 2017

Sayed Jan institute, Kunduz province Kunduz

Baccalaureate 2005 - 2009

Shir Khan high school, Kunduz province Kunduz

Other Skills:
Languages:
 Dari (Native), Pashto (Working level), English (Very good)
Computer:
 Ms. Office Package (Advance Level

References
Abdul Sami Moahid, Regional Director of USAID/AVC-Livestock, North region
Cell: (+93) 7900 64 917 Email: Abdulsami_moahid@dai.com

Ehsanullah Ahmadzay, project manager of ADWSO/UNICEF

Cell: (+93) 0792586508 Email: Ihsan.ahmadzai@adwso.org

Abdul Rashid Qazizada Provincial Coordinator – HYSI/UNICEF

Cell: (+93) 789120089 Email: hysibaghlan@hysiafg.org