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MEAL Officer

Date Posted: Mar 09, 2024
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Job Detail

  • Location:
    Kunduz
  • Company:
  • Type:
    Contract
  • Shift:
    Rotating Days
  • Career Level:
    Entry Level Staff
  • Positions:
    1
  • Vacancy number:
    49710
  • Experience:
    3 Year
  • Gender:
    Any
  • Salary:
    As per Company salary scale
  • Degree:
    Bachelors
  • Apply Before:
    Mar 12, 2024

About IRC (International Rescue Committee)

The IRC will put in place high-impact, cost-effective solutions that help people affected by crisis. We'll also use our learning and experience to shape humanitarian policy and practice in ways that improve the lives of more people worldwide.

Job Description

Program/project design and learning

  • With the support of the MEAL Manager/ Senior MEAL officer, design, develop and continuously update project MEAL tools.
  • Take part in diagnostic studies, evaluations, and surveys.
  • Implementation of reflective practice forums at field office/ project level and compile lessons from project implementation processes.

Monitoring and evaluation

  • Coordinate field level community participatory monitoring and evaluation, reflective practice, and impact measurement.
  • With the support of the MEAL Manager/ Senior MEAL officer, ensues the on-time execution of projects major monitoring and evaluation events including but not limited to baseline survey, mid-term evaluation, final evaluation, data quality audit and field supervision.
  • In collaboration with the Senior MEAL Officer and the MEAL Manager, provide technical assistance to staff on information management system, proper data collection and record keeping.
  • Conduct regular data verification exercises to ensure reporting and collection of quality data.
  • Verify entered data for completeness, correctness, and consistency and follow up on any data quality issues.
  • Document findings from data quality audits and store in project files to ensure collective and sustainable access.
  • Actively participate in and contribute to MEAL team activities, system assessments, development, and implementation of new systems and/or tools aimed at strengthening overall MEAL practices at IRC Afghanistan.

Accountability and Learning

  • Lead and coordinate processes to collect, review and respond to client feedback at the provincial level.
  • Set up feedback mechanisms to collect and respond to client feedback – both proactive and reactive (technological improvements to existing mechanisms).
  • Conduct regular FGDs and meetings with different stakeholders to solicit feedback on IRC’s work.
  • Prepare CRA reports based on consolidated analysis of client feedback recorded via proactive and reactive channels, to be discussed at field meetings, project review meetings for analysis and decision making at the provincial level.
  • Provide awareness sessions to clients and make sure all clients have IEC materials.

Information management and reporting

  • Submit data set to update country office wide program database on monthly basis.
  • Compile quarter, biannual and annual tabular and narrative reports (as required by project stakeholders) on projects’ accomplishments.

Capacity building and supervision

  • Organize orientation for field programme staff and volunteers on the monitoring tools and train them how-to high-quality data and use it for decision making.
  • Perform other task related assignment proposed by her supervisor.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in BBA, statistics, computer science/or any sector or sub-sector related field.
  • Excellent computer skills are required (particularly Microsoft Excel, Word and KOBO);
  • At least 2-to-3-year experience working in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning with national and international organizations.
  • Strong data collection, analysis, and report writing skills required.
  • Desirable - Working with highly vulnerable and displaced people would be added advantage.
  • Good verbal communication skills in local languages and working knowledge of English.
  • Most importantly, commitment to IRC values and principles.
  • A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with groups of diverse backgrounds. 
  • Excellent computer skills are required (particularly Microsoft Excel, Access, and Word).
  • Strong data collection, analysis, and report writing skills required.
  • Ability to work independently, think analytically and take initiative in solving problems.
  • Ability to communicate technical issues effectively.
  • Familiarity with log frame analysis and MEAL plan.
  • Experience in conducting assessments.
  • Desirable-Working with highly vulnerable and displaced people would be added advantage.
  • Good verbal communication skills in the local language and working knowledge of English.
  • Most importantly, commitment to IRC values and principles.
  • A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with groups. 

Submission Guideline:

For IRC- Afghanistan Internal Candidates:

(“ The IRC encourages employees to remain in a position for at least one year and be in good standing before applying for another position within the organization. if an employee is interested in a vacant position within the organization, he/she must inform his/her supervisor in advance before applying for a new position”)

(However, 1 year is proposed based on the approved policy but we encourage IRCA employees to remain up to 6 months and above to be given chance to compete for an opportunity in the organization), 

Note: applicants who recently applied and interviewed for the above mentioned role, will not be consider again.

All qualified candidates are requested to open the given link and follow the instructions:

https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/49710?c=rescue

applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and after that for interviews. If you are not contacted TWO or FOUR WEEKS after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post. IRC Afghanistan Country Office, Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10, Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.

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