Key Responsibilities
Monitoring and Data Collection
- Develop and implement project monitoring plans, tools, and systems.
- Monitor project activities against approved work plans, indicators, targets, and timelines.
- Conduct regular field monitoring visits to project sites and Professional Development Centers.
- Collect, verify, analyze, and maintain project monitoring data.
- Ensure that data collection tools are properly designed and consistently used.
- Monitor project outputs, outcomes, indicators, and beneficiary reach.
- Identify implementation gaps, challenges, and areas requiring corrective action.
- Maintain an updated project indicator tracking table.
Evaluation and Assessment
- Support baseline, end line, needs assessment, post-training, and other project assessments.
- Develop questionnaires, checklists, monitoring forms, and other data collection tools.
- Conduct pre- and post-training assessments where required.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data and prepare findings for project management.
- Support measurement of changes in participants’ knowledge, skills, and practices.
Data Quality Assurance
- Ensure the accuracy, completeness, reliability, and timeliness of project data.
- Conduct regular data quality checks and verification.
- Cross-check source documents, attendance sheets, registration forms, and monitoring records.
- Maintain organized electronic and hard-copy MEAL documentation.
- Ensure confidentiality and responsible management of beneficiary information.
Accountability and Feedback
- Support the establishment and implementation of appropriate beneficiary feedback and complaint mechanisms.
- Collect and document feedback from project participants and stakeholders.
- Ensure complaints and feedback are referred to the appropriate staff for timely follow-up.
- Monitor whether feedback is addressed appropriately and documented.
- Promote accountability, transparency, inclusion, and participation throughout project implementation.
Reporting and Learning
- Prepare regular MEAL reports and monitoring updates.
- Provide accurate data and analysis for donor and internal project reports.
- Develop dashboards, indicator tracking tables, and data summaries when required.
- Document lessons learned, best practices, challenges, and recommendations.
- Facilitate learning discussions with project staff and management.
- Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future project planning and implementation.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, , Economics, Public Administration, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in MEAL/M&E, preferably with NGOs or humanitarian/development organizations.
- Practical experience in developing monitoring tools and data collection systems.
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Experience preparing monitoring reports, indicator tracking tables, and data summaries.
- Experience with digital data collection platforms such as Kobo Toolbox/Kobo Collect & MIS is an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Good analytical and report-writing skills.
- Strong communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in Dari and/or Pashto is required; working knowledge of English is an advantage.
- Ability to travel to project locations and conduct field monitoring visits.
Safeguarding and Accountability
SDCO is committed to maintaining a safe, respectful, inclusive, and accountable working environment. The selected candidate will be required to comply with SDCO policies and procedures, including the Code of Conduct, PSEA, Safeguarding, Fraud Prevention, and Accountability mechanisms.
Languages
- Dari: Excellent
- Pashto: Good/Excellent
- English: Basic/Good working knowledge
