MEAL Team Leader

ARWEO is a nonprofit organization with a visionary focus on the rehabilitation and protection of vulnerable communities in Afghanistan. ARWEO has a strategic goal of assisting the lifesaving and immediate needs of the marginalized population including IDPs, refugees, and host communities in eastern, central, northern and central highlands regions. ARWEO has a history of 21 years implemented 86 projects with 65% of projects in Shelter, education, protection, food security, nutrition, and livelihoods. ARWEO is dedicated to transforming the lives of marginalized children including boys and girls, particularly those with immediate education, protection, and humanitarian needs, and those belonging to IDP, refugee, and host communities in the affected provinces of Afghanistan.

Project Background:

ARWEO is implementing the School Feeding Project (SFP) in Nuristan province seven remote districts—Parun, Bargi Matal, Waygal, Nurgram, Du Ab, Mandol, and Kantiva—ARWEO will distribute High Energy Biscuits (HEB) to children’s enrolled in primary schools and Community-Based Education (CBE) classes. The biscuits will be provided daily during school days to address short-term hunger and improve students’ concentration and learning readiness. in the relatively accessible districts of Wama and Kamdesh, ARWEO will implement the Home-Grown School Feeding (Bread+) modality, which engages local bakeries to produce fresh bread. This component will providing a daily bread ration during school days while also supporting local economic activity.

Summary:

The MEAL team leader is responsible for supporting the implementation of M&E activities at all levels of the program.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, train and lead MEAL setup for programs Develop a MEAL plan and review on going MAEL system to reflect functional set up of MEAL.
• Provide technical input in the development of program monitoring and reporting plans.
• Train and manage the MAEL team to carry out regular M&E functions, ensuring that all HR procedures and policies are respected Improve capacity of project field staff in quantitative and qualitative data collection through training and informal coaching and feedback.
• Provide support to the review and development of MEAL systems and tools, in collaboration with your line management and field manager.
• Support the inclusion of MAEL activities in project.
• Support the establishment and monitoring of accountability and complaint response mechanism in line data entry assistant in entry the data participate in shift from paper to online based software for ensuring effective data management for the project.
• Assist programs teams in follow up the project indicators.
• Assist program teams on technical interviews for data analysts and other M&E data collectors during an emergency assessments/baseline surveys/beneficiary registration/Post Distribution Monitoring.
• Cross verification of the beneficiary’s selection done by field team.
• Conduct regular field visit of activities and feed information for improvement of activity implementation.
• Document lessons learned and best practices, produce case studies and stories through collation and analysis of M&E data and other means.
• Organize learning, knowledge sharing and capitalization workshops and ensure knowledge is used in future program design.
• Undertake internal project evaluations, under the guidance and support of the field manager and M&E manager.
• In consultation with field manager and M&E manager support the quality, timeliness and dissemination of M&E outputs internally.
• Support the MEAL Officer in updating MEAL tracking tools.
• Support in conducting simple data verification and spot checks to ensure data quality.
• Support the implementation of the Complaint and Feedback Response Mechanism (CRM) at the field level.
• Participate in regular field monitoring visits to track project activity progress and verify reported results.
• Provide regular updates to the MEAL Manager on field observations and challenges.
• Assist in the preparation of simple monitoring reports and data summaries.
• Support the MEAL team in preparing for internal or external evaluations by organizing documents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, in Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics, Bachelor in business administration.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in international organizations – UN Agencies, INGOs, IOs, Donors
• Experience in working in humanitarian interventions, including large complex operations and/or development programs. (Preferred)
• Strong knowledge of MS Office.
• Effective IT skills, including word processing and spreadsheets.
• Good capacity building and management skills, including human resource and financial management, communications, and intercultural cooperation skills.
• Strong capacity-building, technical, supervisory, and problem-solving skills, and proven ability to work in shelter project management.
• Strong budget management and reporting skills, and an ability to oversee multiple awards from a variety of donors.

Skills and Competencies

• Basic familiarity with data collection tools.
• Good numerical skills and basic proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel for data entry).
• Willingness to learn about MEAL concepts and humanitarian principles

Soft Skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a team and follow instructions.
• Honest, trustworthy, and demonstrates a commitment to Do No Harm, accountability.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Very good organizational, planning and reactivity skills.
• Very good team management and supervision capacity ·Good representation skills

Core competencies:

• Communications, Collaboration & Teamwork, Judgement & Decision, National Society & Customer Relations, Creativity & Innovation, Building Trust.

Values:

• Respect for Diversity, Integrity, Professionalism, Accountability.

Protection From Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Commitment:

ARWEO has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and abuse. All employees are expected to comply with our PSEA policy. This includes:

• Undergoing PSEA training
• Signing a self-declaration form
• Participating in reference checks that include questions on PSEA
• Reporting any suspected cases of sexual exploitation and abuse

Safeguarding:

• Uphold and promote ARWEOI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Consistent with ARWEO’s safeguarding and protection policies, ensure all people who come into contact with ARWEO are as safe as possible.

Interested candidates should submit their CV and a cover letter without educational documents to hr@arweo.org.af

Note: Applications without mentioning the Position Title & Vacancy Number in the subject line of the email will NOT be considered.

Females are particularly encouraged to apply

“The MEAL Officer will have to create and maintain an environment which prevents sexual exploitation and abuse and promotes the implementation of the code of conduct”

hr@arweo.org.af