MEAL Officer

Position Title: MEAL Officer

2025-05-22 Zabul Full Time 27

Job Location:	Zabul
Nationality:	Afghan
Category:	Monitoring and Evaluation
Employment Type:	Full Time
Salary:	As per CIC/SC Salary Scale
Vacancy Number:	VA-2025-006
No. Of Jobs:	1
City:	Atghar, Daychopan, Kakar, and Nawbahar Districts of Zabul Province

Organization:	Children in Crisis (CiC)
Years of Experience:	3-4Years
Contract Duration:	February 2026
Gender:	Male/Female
Education:	Bachelor degree
Close date:	2025-05-22

About Children in Crisis (CiC):

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 500,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 33,000 caregivers to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Job Descriptions:

Part 1: Role Purpose:

Implement core M&E activities at targeted communities under the management of the MEAL Manager.
Ensure strict adherence to CiC – Street Child policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines.
Prepare and submit timely status reports as required by the line manager.
Maintain proper filing and archiving of all M&E Related project documents.
Surface and share ideas for technical improvement based on field experience.

Part 2: Key Responsibilities:

Implement the project’s MEAL plan at field level, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and internal standards. Develop, pilot and refine all M&E tools (surveys, mobile checklists, interview guides, dashboards), and ensure monitoring systems and quality-control measures are in place and functioning.
Undertake regular field visits to observe implementation, spot-check distribution sessions, verify data accuracy, and ensure activities meet quality and quantity targets. Provide actionable feedback to the team based on these monitoring insights.
Oversee electronic data collection platforms (KOBO, ODK): device management, data uploads, backups. Collect, verify and compile quantitative data, statistics and qualitative insights; clean and triangulate data to maintain high quality standards.
Prepare and submit weekly and monthly monitoring reports, as well as monthly/quarterly MEAL reports that highlight key findings, lessons learned, corrective actions taken, and emerging risks. Communicate closely with field staff to improve reporting and data accuracy.
Establish and manage community feedback and complaints mechanisms (hotlines, suggestion boxes, help desks). Conduct help-desk sessions during distributions to inform beneficiaries of their rights and reporting channels. Ensure timely logging, investigation, resolution of complaints, and escalation of critical issues to the MEAL Manager.
Provide on-the-job support and training to field teams, community workers, partners and enumerators on MEAL tools, data collection ethics, and accountability standards. Liaise with FSAC technical leads (e.g., agronomy, cash transfer) to ensure MEAL findings inform project decision-making.
Prepare and implement detailed monthly M&E plans. Organize periodic reflection workshops with field teams to share insights and integrate learning into project workplans and budgets.
Perform any other relevant tasks assigned by the line manager.

Generic Responsibilities:

Demonstrate a strong commitment to Street Child’s vision, mission and values.
Adhere to all organizational policies and procedures (including safeguarding, code of conduct and anti-fraud).
Represent Street Child professionally, both internally and externally.
Undertake all reasonable tasks within the broad remit of the role as requested by your supervisor.

Job Requirements:

Part 3: Professional and Behavioural Competencies:

Experience and Knowledge

• 3–4 years’ experience in Overall M&E activities.
• Knowledge of archiving, filing, and documentation
• Understanding of MEAL Tools, Reporting and food-security standards and criteria, have the ability to clean the data, analyse the data, and data in the report. Have the knowledge of specifically the FSAC cluster guideline and protocols for data analysation, cleaning, and interpretation.

Experience developing M&E frameworks and tools
Familiarity with digital data-collection platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox)
Have an understanding of the Logical Framework.
Have an understanding of the analysis tools and apps.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to work independently and in a team

• Planning, organizing, and multi-tasking

• Problem-solving under pressure

Empowering and building trust with communities
Communicating with impact and respect

Education / Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Social Science or related field

Post-graduate diploma or certification in M&E, Data Analysis or Community Development

Submission Guidelines:

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks. Street Child also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Submission Guidelines:

If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please complete the Children in Crisis Recruitment Form using the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetVg_iLRRk9eEY88sfV1Ws5aivPEVtk3cgWRg0qqo922-UMw/viewform?usp=dialog

This form is mandatory and must be completed in full. Please make sure all details are accurate before submitting.

Only short-listed candidates whose education and experiences correspond to the above criteria will be contacted for further consideration and in case you did not hear from us after 3 weeks of deadline, please consider that as a rejection.