M&E Officer

ARM Consulting is a distinguished research and management consulting firm, holding a valid business registration license issued by the Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Founded in 2015, our purpose has been to address Afghanistan's development and humanitarian challenges through well-informed and evidence-based solutions, catering to the needs of international development and humanitarian partners.

About the job

ARM Consulting is seeking two Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officers and one Regional Reporting Officer to join our team in implementing a multi-year third-party monitoring (TPM) contract for a leading UN agency across Afghanistan's 34 provinces. The successful candidates will play key roles in supporting the design, implementation, management, and reporting of monitoring missions to ensure project effectiveness and impact.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing monitoring plans in close collaboration with the client and regularly updating them;
• Coordinate implementation of monitoring plans with field staff across the eight regions of Afghanistan;
• Deploy relevant monitoring teams to assigned monitoring missions in accordance with client instructions.
• Tracking the activities of field staff to ensure compliance with the monitoring plan;
• Contributing to the development of contextualized and high-quality monitoring tools (questionnaires, KII and FGD guides, etc.) in line with the monitoring needs;
• Piloting the monitoring tools before embarking on fieldwork;
• Preparing fieldwork schedules;
• Performing data cleaning - both quantitative and qualitative data;
• Performing robust data analysis to draw triangulated key findings about the project;
• Developing high-quality mission-based monitoring reports with a particular focus on using result-focused and gender-neutral language;
• Preparing weekly and monthly synthesized key findings reports;
• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor;

Please ONLY apply if you meet the following requirements:

• Master's degree in project management, business administration, statistics, or any other related field;
• Three years of experience in research, M&E, and project management (experience in other fields will not be considered);
• Highly experienced in M&E report writing;
• Fluency in spoken and written English, and;
• Understanding SPSS or any other data analysis application is desirable.

Please submit your CV and supporting documents through the link below by the specified deadline. Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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