MEAL Officer

Position Title: MEAL Officer

2025-10-20 Badakhshan Full Time 10

Job Location:	Badakhshan
Nationality:	National
Category:	Monitoring and Evaluation
Employment Type:	Full Time
Salary:	As per Organization Salary Scale
Vacancy Number:	VN09
No. Of Jobs:	1
City:	Center travel districts

Organization:	COAR
Years of Experience:	At least 3 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in a similar job and having experience and knowledge of MEAL is preferred.
Contract Duration:	One year with possibility of extension ,but the probation period is 3 month
Gender:	Male/Female
Education:	University degree in relevant fields such as demography, Statistics, Social Science, and Management or Computer science.
Close date:	2025-10-20

About COAR:

Required Professional Experience:

At least 3 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in a similar job and having experience and knowledge of MEAL is preferred.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

University degree in relevant fields such as demography, Statistics, Social Science, and Management or Computer science.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

Experience with mobile data collection (Comcare) platforms.

Ability to set priorities and undertake new tasks quickly.

Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences.

Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity, and physical stamina.

Ability to work in and contribute to the team-building environment.

Maintaining performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments, and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.

Willing to travel in different districts when necessary.

Personal Management includes initiative, self-motivation, and direction.

MEAL Certification is preferred.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

Based in Badakhshan office and regularly traveling to Districts.

Job Descriptions:

Humanitarian Accountability

Collaborate with the MEAL senior Officer to track and register complaints/feedback from female/male participants through the existing channels in conducting the awareness session.
Support the AQBE project manager to update the complaints and feedback forms/ database.
Support the AQBE project manager to collect data from participants/ beneficiaries and translate this data into accountability reports submitted on weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.
Follow-up close-out of feedback provided by participants.
Support training participants on COAR humanitarian accountability mechanisms

Monitoring

Support the AQBE project manager to conduct field visits of the public schools and CBEs, or any other monitoring activities assigned targeting beneficiaries.
Collaborate with project staff to conduct rapid assessments, CBE and public-school assessments, or any special assessments targeting female/male participants/ beneficiaries or respondents.
Support the project team to conduct post-distribution monitoring or any other monitoring activities assigned to target beneficiaries.
Support the roll-out of monitoring tools and processes designed to increase beneficiaries' participation in MEAL processes.

Baselines and Evaluation (End lines)

Support the project team to data collection for baselines and evaluations (end lines) among beneficiaries.

Reporting and Learning:

Provide monthly MEAL report to the supervisor; After conducting a field visit share the monitoring report with the supervisor.
Support identification of appropriate success stories (particularly women and girls’ beneficiaries storied) for the assigned projects and share with the project manager and/or communication department.

Other:

Adhere to COAR Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
Adhere to COAR accountability standards and SOP.
Assist the CFM and CP Officers in training facilitations in terms of accountability awareness sessions.
Keep close coordination with the CFM officer and province project manager officer about accountability issues.
To be aware and prepared to implement COAR Emergency Affairs plan under the context of COAR targeted areas and interventions.
Perform other tasks that would be assigned by line supervisor.
Humanitarian Accountability
Collaborate with the MEAL senior Officer to track and register complaints/feedback from female/male participants through the existing channels in conducting the awareness session.
Support the AQBE project manager to update the complaints and feedback forms/ database.
Support the AQBE project manager to collect data from participants/ beneficiaries and translate this data into accountability reports submitted on weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.
Follow-up close-out of feedback provided by participants.
Support training participants on COAR humanitarian accountability mechanisms
Monitoring
Support the AQBE project manager to conduct field visits of the public schools and CBEs, or any other monitoring activities assigned targeting beneficiaries.
Collaborate with project staff to conduct rapid assessments, CBE and public-school assessments, or any special assessments targeting female/male participants/ beneficiaries or respondents.
Support the project team to conduct post-distribution monitoring or any other monitoring activities assigned to target beneficiaries.
Support the roll-out of monitoring tools and processes designed to increase beneficiaries' participation in MEAL processes.
Baselines and Evaluation (End lines)
Support the project team to data collection for baselines and evaluations (end lines) among beneficiaries.
Reporting and Learning:
Provide monthly MEAL report to the supervisor; After conducting a field visit share the monitoring report with the supervisor.
Support identification of appropriate success stories (particularly women and girls’ beneficiaries storied) for the assigned projects and share with the project manager and/or communication department.
Other:
Adhere to COAR Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
Adhere to COAR accountability standards and SOP.
Assist the CFM and CP Officers in training facilitations in terms of accountability awareness sessions.
Keep close coordination with the CFM officer and province project manager officer about accountability issues.
To be aware and prepared to implement COAR Emergency Affairs plan under the context of COAR targeted areas and interventions.
Perform other tasks that would be assigned by line supervisor.

Job Requirements:

Required Professional Experience:

At least 3 years of monitoring and evaluation experience in a similar job and having experience and knowledge of MEAL is preferred.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

University degree in relevant fields such as demography, Statistics, Social Science, and Management or Computer science.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

Experience with mobile data collection (Comcare) platforms.

Ability to set priorities and undertake new tasks quickly.

Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences.

Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity, and physical stamina.

Ability to work in and contribute to the team-building environment.

Maintaining performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments, and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.

Willing to travel in different districts when necessary.

Personal Management includes initiative, self-motivation, and direction.

MEAL Certification is preferred.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

Based in Badakhshan office and regularly traveling to Districts.

Submission Guidelines:

Qualified candidates may send their CVs include a Cover letter to the COAR Human resource department to this email address:cv@coar.org.af
CVs received after the closing date (01-20-2025) will not be considered.
Applications are reviewed on an active basis and after receiving sufficient eligible applications we may process the position before the closing date.
the subject line of the email must be (MEAL Officer VN09) otherwise your CVs may not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the Written test and Interview.
COAR is an equal opportunity to the employer for all ethnic groups and both genders are urged to apply
COAR has zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).

we highly preference for Female locally recruitment