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MEAL Officer

COAR
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Position Title: MEAL Officer

2025-02-21    Kunar, Nangarhar     Full Time     463

Job Location: Kunar, Nangarhar
Nationality: National
Category: Monitoring and Evaluation
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: As per Organization Salary Scale
Vacancy Number: VN11
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Center travel to districts
Organization: COAR
Years of Experience: At least 3 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in a similar job and having experience and knowledge of MEAL is preferred.
Contract Duration: Project Base with 3 months probation period
Gender: Male/Female
Education: University degree in relevant fields such as demography, Statistics, Social Science, and Management or Computer science.
Close date: 2025-02-21

About COAR:

Citizen Organization for Advocacy and Resilience, COAR (formally Coordination of Afghan Relief) CoAR is an Afghan, independent, nonpolitical, non-sectarian, and non-for profit organization
established in 1989 and registered formally with the ministry of Economy. COAR actively bridging between donors of humanitarian aid and rural Afghan communities severely affected by
almost four decades of wars, internal conflicts, natural and manmade disasters, and complexities. COAR endeavors to reach the unreached and embark on strengthening local
coping mechanisms to enable communities to find durable local solutions to their local problems and encourage self-reliance and sustainability. COAR works with communities to proactively
utilize their own scarce and limited resource the most efficient and effective way and discourage a culture of aid dependency, except in times of disasters and extreme poverty. COAR has
maintained the access of beneficiaries to basic services with strict observation of humanitarian principles of Independence, Neutrality and Impartiality in practice.

Job Descriptions:

Humanitarian Accountability

  • Collaborate with the MEAL manager to track and register complaints/feedback from female/male participants through the existing channels in conducting the awareness session.
  • Support the project coordinator and CFM officer in county office to update the complaints and feedback forms/ database.
  • Support the project team and collect data from participants/ beneficiaries and translate this data into accountability reports submitted on weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.
  • Follow-up close-out of feedback provided by participants.
  • Support training participants on COAR humanitarian accountability mechanisms

Monitoring

  • Support the project coordinator to conduct field visits of the public schools and TLSs, or any other monitoring activities assigned targeting beneficiaries. 
  • Collaborate with project staff to conduct rapid assessments, public-school assessments, or any special assessments targeting female/male participants/ beneficiaries or respondents.
  • Support the project team to conduct post-distribution monitoring or any other monitoring activities assigned to target beneficiaries. 
  • Support the roll-out of monitoring tools and processes designed to increase beneficiaries' participation in MEAL processes.

Baselines and Evaluation (End lines)

  • Support the project team to data collection for baselines and evaluations (end lines) among beneficiaries.

Reporting and Learning:

  • Provide monthly MEAL report to the supervisor; After conducting a field visit share the monitoring report with the supervisor.
  • Support identification of appropriate success stories (particularly women and girls’ beneficiaries storied) for the assigned projects and share with the project coordinator and/or communication department.

Other:

  • Adhere to COAR Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
  • Adhere to COAR accountability standards and SOP.
  • Assist the CFM and CP Officers in training facilitations in terms of accountability awareness sessions.
  • Keep close coordination with the CFM officer and province project coordinator about accountability issues.
  • To be aware and prepared to implement COAR Emergency Affairs plan under the context of COAR targeted areas and interventions.
  • Perform other tasks that would be assigned by the line supervisor.

 

Job Requirements:

Required Professional Experience:

At least 3 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in a similar job and having experience and knowledge of MEAL is preferred.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

University degree in relevant fields such as demography, Statistics, Social Science, and Management or Computer science.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

Experience with mobile data collection Kobo/ODK platforms.

Ability to set priorities and undertake new tasks quickly.

Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences.

Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity, and physical stamina.

Ability to work in and contribute to the team-building environment.

Maintaining performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments, and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.

Willing to travel in different districts when necessary.

Personal Management includes initiative, self-motivation, and direction.

MEAL Certification is preferred.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

Based in Nangarhar and Kunar offices and regularly traveling to districts.

Submission Guidelines:

Qualified candidates may send their CVs include a Cover letter to the COAR Human resource department to this email address:cv@coar.org.af
CVs received after the closing date (02-21-2025) will not be considered.
Applications are reviewed on an active basis and after receiving sufficient eligible applications we may process the position before the closing date.
the subject line of the email must be (MEAL Officer VN11) otherwise your CVs may not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the Written test and Interview.
COAR is an equal opportunity to the employer for all ethnic groups and both genders are urged to apply
COAR has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).

Submission Email:

cv@coar.org.af

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