About the project: The project aims to ensure that populations affected by the humanitarian crisis particularly IDPs, returnees, women, children, and persons with disabilities have timely access to life‑saving services while strengthening their resilience and sustainable livelihoods. The intervention integrates WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene), food security through cash-based assistance, livelihoods support, agriculture, disaster risk reduction (DRR), early warning systems (EWS), and gender-inclusive community resilience approaches to address immediate needs and long-term recovery.
Job Summary: The MEAL Coordinator, reporting to the MEAL Manager, will be responsible for leading and coordinating the effective implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems across the integrated humanitarian and resilience project.
The role ensures high-quality MEAL support for WASH, food security (cash-based assistance), livelihoods, agriculture, and disaster risk reduction/early warning system components, with a strong focus on accountability to affected populations, gender and inclusion, and evidence-based programming. The position is based in Kabul with frequent field travel (up to 75%) to monitor activities, verify data quality, conduct assessments, and support learning and adaptive management.
Responsibilities and Tasks
(Describe the major responsibilities, principal tasks, competencies, and end results for which the position is accountable. List the responsibilities in the order of importance and state the percentage of time the employee spends on each responsibility)
1. Monitoring and Evaluation
· Develop and implement project-specific MEAL plans, indicator tracking tools, and data collection systems aligned with ActionAid’s MEAL Framework and donor requirements.
· Ensure systematic monitoring of output and outcome indicators across WASH, food security, cash assistance, livelihoods, agriculture, and DRR/EWS activities.
· Lead or support baseline, post-distribution monitoring (PDM), endline assessments, HCVCA monitoring, and special studies, ensuring methodological rigor.
· Conduct regular field monitoring visits, spot checks, and verification exercises to assess activity quality, coverage, and compliance with standards.
· Ensure monitoring approaches are gender-sensitive, inclusive, and conflict-sensitive, capturing the perspectives of women, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups.
2. MIS and Data Management
· Support the design, rollout, and maintenance of Management Information Systems (MIS) for beneficiary registration, distribution tracking, and indicator monitoring.
· Ensure data accuracy, validation, secure storage, and confidentiality, particularly for cash-based and protection-sensitive information.
· Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to identify trends, gaps, and lessons learned.
· Produce data visualizations, dashboards, and summary analyses to support decision-making and adaptive programming.
3. Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) and Learning
· Support the establishment and strengthening of Complaint and Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) at community and project sites.
· Regularly compile, analyze, and report feedback and complaint data, ensuring timely follow-up and response.
· Promote learning by organizing reflection sessions, learning events, after-action reviews, and lessons-learned workshops with program teams.
· Ensure community feedback—especially from women and marginalized groups—is integrated into program adjustments and design improvements.
4. Capacity Building and Coordination
· Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and on-the-job training to project staff, field teams, and community structures on MEAL concepts, tools, and data quality.
· Coordinate closely with WASH, Food Security, Livelihoods, Agriculture, and DRM teams to ensure MEAL integration throughout the project cycle.
· Support community-level monitoring related to DRR committees, early warning systems, and women-led risk management groups.
· Collaborate with the MEAL Manager and Program Team to ensure alignment with organizational standards and donor frameworks.
5. Reporting and Documentation
· Contribute timely and reliable MEAL inputs to monthly, quarterly, and final donor reports.
· Support documentation of case studies, success stories, outcome narratives, and human-interest stories, highlighting gender and resilience impacts.
· Ensure consistency between MEAL findings, logframes, indicators, and reported results.
