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 – Paktia, Logar, and Ghazni Provinces (3 Positions)

ARM Consulting is seeking three male candidates with a background in Agriculture and Livestock to work as Field Monitoring Associates in support of the implementation of a multi-year monitoring contract. One candidate will be recruited for each of the following provinces: Paktia, Logar, and Ghazni.

Successful candidates will play a key role in planning, coordinating, and conducting monitoring missions at the district and village levels within their respective assigned provinces.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement monitoring plans through scheduled field visits and spot checks within the assigned province, including capturing and analyzing data in a timely and accurate manner, conducting qualitative assessments at 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, ensuring that agreed selection criteria and humanitarian principles are consistently applied.
• Monitor agricultural input and cash distribution activities at designated distribution sites 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 the assigned 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 distribution sites and household/community levels within the assigned 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.

Geographical Assignment

A total of three positions are available, allocated as follows:

• 1 Field Monitoring Associate – Paktia Province
• 1 Field Monitoring Associate – Logar Province
• 1 Field Monitoring Associate – Ghazni Province

Each successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring activities at the district and village levels within their assigned province, in accordance with project requirements and approved monitoring plans.

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/15js7abk