Position Title: MEAL Assistant
Activation Date: 25 March, 2026 Announced Date: 25 March, 2026 Expire Date: 01 April, 2026
- Job Location: Ghowr
- Nationality: National
- Category: Monitoring and Evaluation
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Salary: As Organization Salary Scale
- Vacancy Number: VA-17-2026
- No. Of Jobs: 1
- City: Ghor / Feroz Koh
- Organization: ACDO
- Years of Experience: 2 years’ relevant experience in implementation of humanitarian projects as MEAL
- Contract Duration: 4 Months with Possibility of extension
- Gender: Male/Female
- Education: University degree in BBA, BCS and Economic or relevant field
- Close date: 2026-04-01
About ACDO:
Asia Community Development Organization (ACDO) is an Afghan non-governmental, non-political, and non-profit humanitarian organization established in 2014 and registered with the Government of Afghanistan under the supervision of Ministry of Economy (MoEc) with a mission to provide humanitarian and development assistance to the vulnerable, at-risk, and underserved people throughout the country.
ACDO responds to the needs of deprived and marginalized rural and urban communities by managing and utilizing the available scarce resources in a well-organized, efficient, effective, transparent, and dignified manner to enhance resilience, boost access to education, health services, and infrastructure, ensure food and livelihood security, and promote social protection and inclusion.
ACDO has an active presence in most parts of the country and intends to expand its operations to the remaining provinces, as to transform itself into a leading and developed organization that will deliver to and support large number of people who have been affected by the long-protracted and sudden on-set emergencies and regardless of the hardest circumstances that exist in Afghanistan, ACDO has managed to deliver humanitarian and development assistance in most part of country
Job Description:
The incumbent shall undertake the following responsibilities under direct supervision of the Executive/Deputy Executive Director, but not limited to:
- Ensure the effective monitoring and performance management are in place for achieving prior agreed program activity targets.
- Design and participate in field-based needs assessments and gap analyses, including risk and vulnerability assessments.
- Support the team on revisions of core implementation documents (milestones, log-frame, assessment documents and implementation plan)
- Provide technical support to the provincial staff in data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Track the progress of the activities,
- Promote M&E standards, quality assurance/control and capacity development of team
- Lead the preparation of a robust M&E Framework, including well-defined objectives and indicators, to track progress toward education project objectives.
- Support the M&E team in development of an M&E system for ACDO education project at provincial level to implement and coordinate all M&E activities, including data collection tools and processes to track indicators, and coordination
- Support the M&E officer and provincial team in identify and formulation of M&E findings, lessons learned and recommendations to be integrated into broader project/ACDO knowledge management efforts, disseminated in learning events and channeled into decision-making processes
- Support the M&E Officer in timely preparation of sound analytical documents synthesizing the results of activities to assess their impact and effectiveness.
- Support the M&E team in preparing the statistical analysis of reports and activities of employees and their submission to top management.
- Coordinate and oversee trainings, and awareness programs to effectively organize the events.
- Prepare and schedule regular and periodic visits to all districts covered by the program to assess the level of satisfaction of people and the behavior and performance of their staff and address the complaints.
- Monitor the operation and usage of vehicles, equipment, and other items related to the project.
- Managing the Graveness Redress Mechanism System across the province
- Absorb, analysis, and providing feedback to complainers
- Any other related task as assigned by M&E Manager and/or M&E officer.
- Perform any other tasks as assigned by the Program Coordinator and/or Senior Management Team (SMT).
Job Requirements:
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in BCS, BBA, Economics, or any other relevant discipline,
- Master degree with 1 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor degree with 2 years of relevant experience;
- Experience in a M&E position with national and international NGOs.
- Full familiarity with the challenges and opportunities ahead of the program and study the CBE Afghanistan Standard.
Skills:
- Strong communication and coordination skills.
- Experience in community engagement and awareness-raising.
- Ability to travel frequently to field locations.
- ability to motivate and manage cross-functional teams
- ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and project beneficiaries.
- ability to analyze data, identify trends and make informed decisions
- ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks effectively
- proficiency in project management tools and software and professional report writing.
- Ability to work with communities and affect populations in returnees.
- Sound organizational skills and ability to prioritize and deliver assignments in a timely manner often under severe time pressures
- Good knowledge and experience in emergency cases and controlling off crowd in project site.
Language skills:
- Advanced Proficiency in English, Dari and Pashto (written and spoken)
Submission Guideline:
Qualified applicants are highly encouraged to apply for the position and submit their applications (Cover Letter and CV together) NOT Educational and Work Certificates, to the attention of the Human Resource Department at https://acdo.org/apply/meal-assistant-95 until 04:00 pm (Afghanistan Standard Time) April 01, 2026.
Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and consequently for an interview. If you are not contacted TWO WEEKS after the closing date, please know that your application has not been successful for the post.
Submission Email:
https://acdo.org/apply/meal-assistant-95