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MEAL Officer

Women's Activities & Social Services Association (WASSA)
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Position Title: MEAL Officer

2024-10-12    Herat     Full Time     277

Job Location: Herat
Nationality: Afghan
Category: Program
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: Based on WASSA salary's Scale
Vacancy Number: W-HRT-218
No. Of Jobs: 1
City: Herat City
Organization: Women's Activities & Social Services Association (WASSA)
Years of Experience: At least 2-3 years of experience in M&E
Contract Duration: Until Apr-2024 with extension possibility
Gender: Female
Education: At least university degree in publican administration, Economy and any other related field.
Close date: 2024-10-12

About Women's Activities & Social Services Association (WASSA):

Women Activities & Social Service Association (WASSA) established in 2002 in Afghanistan, as non-governmental organization, committed to seeking ways for women empowerment in Afghanistan. WASSA aims to promote women equal participation in socio-economic sectors of the country. WASSA works directly with communities in order to bring change in social attitude of the community regarding women.

An envision “Equal participation of women & men in all sectors of the country.

  • Equal Opportunities: WASSA is dedicated to offering equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, or disability.
  • Safeguarding and Conduct: WASSA will contact previous employers to inquire about any history of sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment during the candidate's employment, including incidents under investigation at the time the candidate left. Job offers are conditional on satisfactory reference checks. By applying, candidates confirm they understand and accept these procedures.
  • Final Selection: The selected candidate must pass a background check and reference check. They will also be required to sign WASSA's Code of Conduct, PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse), Safeguarding, and other relevant policies before receiving a final job offer/contract.

Job Descriptions:

Monitoring:

  1. Managing and conducting the Monitoring activities of the projects in accordance to the donor requirements as well as the WASSA MEAL Policy and tools.
  2. Leading and coordinating the implementation of various types of assessments, verifications of beneficiaries through surveys
  3. Conducting onsite monitoring of project activities and processes where necessary
  4. Developing checklists and Monitoring tools for the project activities and output level monitoring
  5. Conducting Post Distribution Monitoring Surveys where required
  6. With Support from the supervisor ensure project documents such as logical framework, Indicator Tracking Table (ITT), and Monitoring Plan are established and up to date
  7. Ensuring project ITT is updated, the data provided is verified and validated as per the donor/WASSA agreed frequency
  8. Ensuring Means of Verifications for project activities such as participant lists are verified and validated for all the activities of the project
  9. Guiding and training the project staff to conduct Focus Groups Discussion with the project beneficiaries to acquire their feedback and reflect it to the project management for decision-making and reformatory actions if necessary
  10. Preparing field visit reports and sharing them with MEAL supervisor ,Program Manager, project manager and Executive director.
  11. Ensuring enumerators/ project staff are trained and oriented on data collection methodology.
  12. Providing feedback to the Project Manager on project strategies implementation and activities.
  13. Checking the weekly and monthly reports of each project staff.
  14. Ensuring the quality assurance for each project
  15. Suggesting strategies to the Project Management for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the project by identifying drawbacks in completing project activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such drawbacks.
  16. Performing the qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
  17. Considering the cross-cutting issues for every project

 

Evaluation

  1. With Support from the MEAL team, develop and design documents for project baseline and end-line evaluation based on the donor requirements and WASSA MEAL policy.
  2. Ensure accurate and reliable data is collected for baseline and evaluation of the project
  3. Ensure Evaluations/ Baseline are planned on timely basis and final products delivered on time
  4. Develop monitoring and impact indicator for the project success;
  5. Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of results;
  6. Monitor the sustainability of the project's results;

 

Accountability

  1. Operate and manage safe and accessible Feedback and Complaints Response Mechanism (FCRM).
  2. Build capacity of all staff, partners, and project participants on accountability
  3. Ensure all project participants are aware of the FCRM, key project information, and expectations
  4. Periodic review of accountability practices

 

Learning:

  1. Promoting organizational learning and knowledge sharing;
  2. Collecting the information from beneficiaries in writing the success stories;
  3. Generate lessons learned from the project and share with project team for improvement of the interventions;
  4. Supporting project managers in improving learning and sharing mechanisms in their projects
  5. Support on other reports assigned (e.g., verification report, PDM report, ITT report);
  6. Evaluate the impact assessment for each project;
  7. Develop lessons learned reports and share them with the program manager;
  8. Creating coordination among the partners MEAL department
  9. Follow up the Preparing the case stories;
  10. Other Duties:

 

Job Requirements:

 

  1. At least university degree in publica administration, Economy and any other related field.
  2. At least 3 years of experience in the design and implementation of M&E/MIS in development projects implemented by national/international NGOs/UN bodies/ Government;
  3. Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports;
  4. Proven ICT skills, especially in the development of MIS software using database software;
  5. Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software;
  6. Strong training & facilitation skills.
  7. Language Requirements:
  8. Fluency in both written and spoken English Dari and Pashtu a plus.

Submission Guidelines:

  • Interested qualified candidates should submit their information/request thourgh this link (https://airtable.com/appMYvUXvcGUkC82P/shrBsEulOGxJbccNx).
  • Academic certificates or references do not need to be submitted at this time. These will be requested if called for an interview.
  • Only short-listed candidates will be invited for written tests and interviews upon project approve

Submission Email:

https://airtable.com/appMYvUXvcGUkC82P/shrBsEulOGxJbccNx

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