Afghanaid is a British humanitarian and development NGO established in 1983. It is headquartered in Kabul and is currently working in four provinces: Badakhshan, Samangan, Ghor, and Daykundi. We also work through partners in nine others: Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul, Balkh, Bamyan, Takhar, Khost and Paktya for nearly 4 decades, Afghanaid has developed its thematic expertise and the capacity of its staff in correspondence with the evolving needs of the country, international best practice, and opportunities for innovation. Our work supports four pillars of sustainable development: providing basic services; strengthening sustainable livelihoods and food security; climate change and disaster risk reduction, and emergency humanitarian assistance. Three guiding principles are mainstreamed in all our work to ensure its contribution to sustainable development: gender and inclusion, good governance and community development, and conflict mitigation and peacebuilding.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in developing appropriate M&E tools for data collection for specific projects;
• Update/maintain project indicator tracking system to measure progress against milestones/plan;
• Use phones, voice over internet technology, e-mail, chat, and video to work directly with female community facilitators, and our male staff to monitor and report the engagement of women.
• Conduct regular phone calls (virtual tours) to monitor project activities. This includes, using KOBO (including remote call monitoring) for data collection and using SPSS for analysis purposes;
• Cleaning, compilation, verification, validation of collected data, and drafting M&E reports;
• Share draft monitoring reports with M&E coordinators and relevant project staff;
• Remote support to project teams on course correction measures based on findings;
• Follow up on MRP and report to the line management;
• CFRM, register complaints, follow up with relevant staff including updating the CFRM database;
• Collect success stories, testimonials, photos, beneficiary feedbacks on project implementation as well as learning from projects through virtual means;
• Oversee data collection by field staff or casual data collectors and community facilitators train them on data collection methods and provide them with appropriate tools and formats;
• Attend training and meetings (usually virtual; and potentially in person where possible);
• Provide inputs for reports internally to the management and externally to donors;
• Perform any other related duties as required by the line management.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Education & Professional Qualification

The position holder must possess a Bachelor’s degree or higher in rural development, project management, international development, social science or other relevant area and extensive relevant professional experience.

Work Experience

At least 2 years’ demonstrable experience in designing and managing outcomes and result-based M&E system to track progress, of which at one year should be in data collection and monitoring position with national or international organisations.

Professional Skills, Competencies, Values and Attitudes

Afghanaid seeks a responsible and dependable M&E officer with strong initiative, judgment and adaptability as well as excellent skills in communication, organisational, interpersonal relations, data collection, project management and reporting.

Specifically, the holder of this position should also demonstrate the following:

Key Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to persuasively present ideas in both local languages.
• Highly developed reporting, monitoring, and management skills.
• Proven management ability and strong interpersonal skills – team player.
• Problem solving and leadership skills.
• Fluency in written English and demonstrated ability to write and lay out high quality documents and reports for diverse audiences.
• Proficiency in the most common computer software including word processing, and excel spreadsheets, data collection and analysis applications e.g. Kobo, PowerBI, SPSS or others.
• Ability to deal with difficult, often frustrating work situations.
• A willingness to live, travel and work in isolated and possibly dangerous locations.
• Gender sensitivity.
• Sensitivity to Islamic culture.
• Personal integrity and a sense of humour.
• Knowledge of personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities in personal workload.

Desirable

• Highly developed reporting, monitoring, and management skills.
• Resilience to live, travel and work in isolated and possibly hard to reach locations.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
• Commitment to the vision and mission of Afghanaid.
• Commitment to support/develop the capacity of the national staff and of rural communities.
• Personal integrity and a sense of humour.
• Knowledge of personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities in personal workload.

Please submit your application by filling the Afghanaid standard job application form and email a completed application form, covering letter and your CV, by no later than 16^th November, 2023 to vacancies@afghanaid.org.uk  ; including your name, vacancy number and the job title in the subject line. Your covering letter should be no more than 1 standard A4 page in length and explain how you meet the essential and desirable position requirements and why you feel you would be a suitable candidate for this role. Your CV should be no more than 4 pages and include 3 professional references including your current employer. The precision and style with which you present yourself in your covering letter and CV will be given significant weight in short listing candidates. Application with no proper subject (requested above), without the application form or submitted after the deadline will not be considered. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every application. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the deadline, then you have not been successful for shortlisting.

Please note that applying without filling the standard job application form will result in disqualifying the applications to review for shortlisting.

Link for the Afghanaid Standard Job Application form:  https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1vLmMCTTa7peZ-8Odm-L4xm_5ULr6nvRG