Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

Activation Date: 14 February, 2022   Announced Date: 14 February, 2022   Expire Date: 27 February,
2022

 
Job Ghazni Paktia
Location:

Nationality: National

Category: Monitoring and

Evaluation

Employment Full Time

Type:

Salary: As Per NTA

(Grade-D)

Vacancy 119
Number:

No. Of Jobs: 2

City: One in Ghani and

Wardak Region,
One for Logar
and Paktia
Region

Organization: Roots of Peace

 Years of Minimum 3 years
Experience: of progressively
responsible
experience in
MEL

Contract Seven Months,

Duration: Extendable
subject to project
funding

Gender: Male/Female

Education: Bachelor’s degree

required. Master's
degree preferred

Close date: 2022-02-27

 
About Roots of Peace:
Roots of Peace is a humanitarian organization whose mission is to rid the world of
landmines and other remnants of war by transforming toxic minefields into thriving
farmland and communities, through a focus on sustainable, organic farming practices.
Roots of Peace is implementing the 3-year, USAID-funded Agriculture Marketing
Program.

The Agriculture Marketing Program (AMP) builds on the successes of Roots of Peace’s

10-year Commercial Horticulture & Agriculture Marketing Program (CHAMP), and aims
over the 3-year period of implementation to increase export volumes and values,
introduce new agricultural products to the market, diversify export markets and increase
value-added processing. The increased exports will create additional demand for
agricultural products that will drive job growth in rural areas. Key objectives/targets
include increases in exports by US$450 million, domestics sales by US$50 million and
jobs by 4,500.
 Activities will include: researching new market opportunities for Afghan products;
operating trade offices in key markets; organizing or participating in international B2B
events, trade missions and trade shows; organizing promotional activities in key
markets; providing incentives for businesses exporting new products or to new markets;
training in new markets, food safety, access to finance, etc.; facilitating access to trade
credit; and mitigating trade impediments.

 
Job Description:
Position Summary: 

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer is responsible for the regular data
collection from the field, monitoring of the project activities and reporting to MEL
Senior Specialist. S/he will assist the MEL Senior Specialist in ensuring that the
performance monitoring plan is implemented and that progress toward indicator
targets is reported to the AMP team as needed and to USAID as required.

Tasks:

The duties and responsibilities of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer
include:

 Support the MEL Senior Specialist in timely and effective implementation of Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning activities of the AMP project in line with M&E manual and
workplan and the stated objectives of the project; 
 Collect all information relevant to key project indicators and outputs in a timely manner by
and that all information collected is consistent with the information required for progress
reporting and outcome monitoring;
 Undertake quality monitoring in the field, recording lessons learned and providing best
practices and by supporting the provision of on-the-job coaching of staff in field office,
implementing partners and local stakeholders;
 Assist in producing project monthly, quarterly and other required reports. Ensure the M&E
project data is accurate, timely and adheres to program M&E standards.
 Provide inputs for regular updates of factsheets, bulletins, social media content, or human-
interest stories based on the M&E data of the AMP project, backed by the visual evidences
(photos and quotes), in close coordination with the MEL Specialist;
 Conduct regular field visits, highlight the abservations and issues to the project with the
intention to complete the information and report to MEL Senior Specialist.
 Undertake quality monitoring of project activities based on the quality benchmark and
communicate with the team in case of any issue or shortcoming.
 Assist in designing and conducting surveys to measure improvements in agricultural
technologies and practices in all intervention areas;
 Performing other tasks assigned by MEL Senior Specialist

 
Job Requirements:
Desired Education:

 Bachelor’s degree required. Master's degree preferred

Experience:

 Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible experience in MEL

 Statistical analysis skills are preferred.
 International organization experience is preferred.
 Knowledge of USAID MEL systems including Afghan-Info and TraiNet is preferred.
 Good communications and interpersonal skills.
 Willingness to travel to other areas of Afghanistan.
 Professional fluency in English with knowledge of Pashto and Dari.
 Excellent written English skills.

Working Conditions including Travel:

During the work assignment, the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Officer will cover
(Ghazni and Wardak) provinces and (Logar and Paktya) provinces and may be required
to occasionally travel to other provinces in Afghanistan.

 
Submission Guideline:
Qualified applicants are encouraged to send their Applications with clearly
mentioning the job title and duty station of the vacancy in the subject line. Emails
without the duty station in subject line will not be considered. 

 
Submission Email:
ROPHR@rootsofpeace.org