Field Monitoring Associate (Agriculture and Livestock)

ARM Consulting is a research and management consulting firm holding a valid business registration license issued by the Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Founded in 2015, we aim to address Afghanistan's development and humanitarian challenges through well-informed and evidence-based solutions, catering to the needs of international development and humanitarian partners.

Field Monitoring Associate – Takhar Province

ARM Consulting is seeking individuals with a background in Agriculture and Livestock to work with us as Field Monitoring Associates to support the implementation of a multi-year monitoring contract. The successful candidate will play a key role in planning, coordinating, and conducting monitoring missions at the district and village levels across Takhar Province.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement monitoring plans through scheduled field visits and spot checks across Takhar Province, including capturing and analyzing data in a timely and accurate manner, conducting qualitative assessments on selected sites, and reporting findings to the relevant supervisor. Field visits shall include taking date-stamped digital photographs where appropriate.
• Undertake field monitoring visits during beneficiary selection by implementing partners at the village level within Takhar Province, ensuring that agreed selection criteria and humanitarian principles are consistently applied.
• Monitor agricultural input and cash distribution activities at designated distribution sites across the province and ensure agreed mechanisms are properly implemented throughout the process.
• Conduct post-distribution monitoring to verify that beneficiaries are appropriately using the distributed inputs and applying the technical knowledge provided by implementing partners.
• Monitor training sessions conducted by implementing partners at the community and district levels within Takhar Province.
• Monitor compliance with environmental and social safeguards, including gender considerations, during the implementation of humanitarian response activities such as emergency livelihood assistance, cash-for-work activities, irrigation and water management interventions, and resilience-building activities.
• Conduct community-level monitoring of cash-for-work (CFW) and irrigation restoration activities through regular site visits, verifying compliance with process, safety, and site management procedures (including attendance records, equipment, COVID-19 protocols where applicable, sun shelters, drinking water, and related requirements). Candidates with an engineering background may also provide technical monitoring of irrigation rehabilitation and gabion wall construction activities.
• Monitor the distribution and utilization of emergency assistance packages, including wheat cultivation, livestock protection, home gardening, backyard poultry, cash-for-work, unconditional cash transfers, small farm equipment, and summer crop seed packages at both distribution sites and household/community levels throughout Takhar Province.
• Conduct periodic monitoring of third-party monitoring contractor surveys at the village level to ensure enumerators collect accurate, reliable, and independent data.
• Attend Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions at the designated regional office to understand emergency and resilience projects and the technical aspects of project interventions.
• Conduct ad hoc meetings and interviews with community elders and other relevant stakeholders at the district level, and submit meeting minutes to the Regional Office and the MEAL Unit.
• Submit timely field monitoring reports after each visit to the Regional Office and the MEAL Unit using Kobo Toolbox and/or paper-based reporting tools, as applicable.
• Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

This version clearly limits the position's geographical scope to Takhar Province while keeping the responsibilities consistent with the original Terms of Reference.

Please ONLY apply if you meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or livestock
• Three years of experience in the development sector of Afghanistan with a particular focus on data collection and M&E;
• Fluency in spoken and written English;
• Ability to use Kobo Toolbox, Open Data Kit (ODK), Survey CTO, and other similar data collection tools;
• Must be residing in provinces where the duty station will be based;
• Ability to write high-quality monitoring reports;

Please submit your CV and supporting documents using the link below. Anyone found with fake or forged documents will be automatically disqualified

https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/QgX6CWsd