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.
