Job Purpose:

The Monitoring and Evaluation officer is responsible for implementation of the M&E plan activities for the projects within the World Vision Afghanistan Zonal office. She/he will be responsible to lead M&E activities such as baselines, assessments, Beneficiary Verifications, PDMs as well as qualitative data collection for the project/s.

The M&E officer will also fulfil other M&E related tasks upon his/her supervisor request.

Note: The MEAL department covers all MEAL related tasks for all the project that are implemented in the respective zonal office within WVA. Therefore M&E officer may have more than once project in his portfolio to conduct the M&E activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Monitoring:

• Manage and conduct the Monitoring activities of the projects in accordance to the donor requirements as well as the WV Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines
• Lead and coordinate implementation of assessments, verifications of beneficiaries through surveys
• Conduct onsite monitoring of project activities and processes where necessary
• Develop checklists and Monitoring tools for the project activities and output level monitoring
• Conduct Post Distribution Monitoring Surveys where required
• With Support from supervisor ensure project documents such as logical framework, Indicator Tracking Table, Monitoring Plan are established and up to date
• In coordination with the project managers ensure project ITT is updated, the data provided is verified and validated on as per the donor/WV agreed frequency
• Ensure Means of Verifications for project activities such as participant lists, MoUs, Beneficiary Lists are verified and validated for all the activities of the project
• Conduct Focus Groups Discussion With the project beneficiaries to acquire their feedback and reflect it to the project management for decision making and reformatory actions if necessary
• Ensure findings from Monitoring visits and activities, PDMs, Beneficiary Feedback are reflected and action points are followed up by the project management team.

Evaluation

• With Support from Supervisor and MEAL team/ sector leads, develop design documents for project baseline and evaluation based on the donor requirements and WVs Evaluation guidelines
• Lead the data collection of the baselines and evaluations in the field
• Ensure enumerators are trained and oriented on data collection methodology of evaluation, safeguarding policy and security protocols of WV
• Ensure accurate and reliable data is collected for baseline and evaluation of the project
• Ensure Evaluations/ Baseline are planned on timely basis and final products delivered on time

Reporting and Learning:

• With support from supervisor analyse the results of the assessments, beneficiary verification surveys, baseline and evaluations and draft initial reports of the findings 
• Prepare monthly monitoring reports for the project and share with project manager, Zonal MEAL and Management teams
• Chair reflection meetings as appropriate to discuss critical findings from M&E activities with relevant WVA staff project staff in order to identify best practices and solutions to enable program management timely decision making about implementation 

Accountability, Administration and Coordination:

• Ensure compliance with Donor policies and procedures, as well as WV’s MEAL policy and procedures are taken into consideration for the project activities
• All necessary admin tasks including logistics, timesheets for enumerators/ data collectors are done
• Hire enumerators and data collectors as per WV policy and evaluate their performance to strengthen the pool of candidates
• Together with the Accountability specialist/ MEAL manager and project manager ensure that the project has an established complaint response mechanism such as complaint box or any other hot line established by the project or World Vision

Other:

• Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
• Adhere to WV accountability standards.
• To be aware and prepared to implement WV Afghanistan Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs plan under the context of (WASH, Health, Nutrition, CVP, Livelihoods) interventions.