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Monitoring / Verification Specialist

Date Posted: Aug 01, 2022
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Job Detail

  • Location:
    Kabul
  • Type:
    Full Time/Permanent
  • Shift:
    First Shift (Morning)
  • Career Level:
    Experienced Professional
  • Positions:
    1
  • Vacancy number:
    149
  • Experience:
    5 Year
  • Gender:
    Any
  • Salary:
    As per Company salary scale
  • Degree:
    Bachelors
  • Apply Before:
    Aug 07, 2022
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About Roots of Peace/AMP

About Roots of Peace/AMP:

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.

 

AMP Project Description:

The Agriculture Marketing Program (AMP) is a three-year USAID-funded program that follows on the successes of the ten-year USAID Commercial Horticulture and Agricultural Marketing Program (CHAMP). The program works in 12 provinces of Afghanistan, focusing on increasing farm production and domestic sales through interventions aimed at farmers and agribusinesses. During the first two years of the program, AMP worked with leading Afghan processing and export firms to increase export volumes and values, introduce new agricultural products to the market, diversify export markets and increase value-added processing. The program's market-based, demand-driven approach focused on supporting private sector growth and sustainability, thereby creating demand for agricultural products that drive job growth in rural areas. Women are incorporated into all areas of program implementation.

In its final fiscal year of implementation, AMP has pivoted to an approach that addresses food security challenges precipitated by the emerging economic and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. This approach comprises three key strategies:

  1. Connecting Farmers to Domestic Markets
  2. Increasing Value-Add of Agriculture Products, Extending Shelf Life of Products
  3. Support for Remote Rural Areas

 

Activities include:

  • Increasing farm productivity and food security through Farmer Field Schools and other activities aimed at building farm capacity.
  • Expanding the number of agricultural products through value addition and product diversification, such as processed jams and sulfur dried apricots.
  • Linking farmers with traders, and traders with buyers in domestic markets, such as through domestic food expos and B2B meetings.
  • Building the capacity of agribusinesses to maximize output and quality for domestic markets.
  • Supporting initiatives such as improved post-harvest handling infrastructure for traders, including packing houses, cold storage, and improved packaging.
  • Addressing important supply chain and trade impediments that restrict the sale of high value agriculture products.

AMP works primarily with private sector agribusinesses, farm producers and other USAID-funded agricultural programs. Specific attention is given to support the participation of women and youth in AMP activities.

 

Job Description

Position Summary:

The Monitoring / Verification Specialist will support AMP’s Grant & Incentive Program by reviewing, authenticating, and verifying Grantee and Incentive Awardee activities and documentation. AMP anticipates awarding in excess of 50 Grant Agreements and 100 Incentive Agreements before the end of the year. The Authentication / Verification Specialist will work with MEL team colleagues in each region to ensure that activities and documentation comply with Grant & Incentive Agreements.

S/he will be required to travel frequently throughout Afghanistan, to AMP’s 12 target provinces. S/he will report directly to the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Specialist but will coordinate closely with personnel in the Grants Team.

Specific Tasks:

  1. Receive grant and incentive documentation from Grantees and Incentive Awardees, via the Grants Team. Documentation may include quotations, invoices, receipts and photographs.
  2. Review the documentation against the Grant Agreement or Incentive Agreement to ensure that the activity that has been undertaken or the items that have been purchased are as agreed (quantity and quality)
  3. Check documentation submitted to ensure that:
    1. Items purchased are of a reasonable price (compared to AMP price lists and submitted quotations)
    2. Items purchased are new and not from ineligible sources
    3. Documentation is authentic/genuine and not tainted/amended
    4. Invoices are from genuine vendors
  4. Request regional MEL team colleagues visit/meet Grantees/Incentive Awardees and vendors to:
    1. Verify purchases
    2. Authenticate documentation
    3. Match items purchased with invoices
    4. Ensure purchased items match specifications in agreements
    5. Ensure visible count of items complements number of items on invoices
    6. Take photographs of items procured and installed/in use
  5. Develop tools for verification monitoring, guide and train regional MEL officers on how to conduct verification site visits, and prepare accurate and comprehensive verification reports for Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Specialist and Grants Team
  6. Upload reports to Grant & Incentive Folders on One Drive
  7. Any other tasks of a similar nature as requested by the AMP Senior Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Specialist

Job Requirements

Education:

  1. Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (economics, business, engineering, etc.)

 

Knowledge & Experience:

  1. At least five years of work experience in monitoring, document authentication and activity verification on a donor-funded program
  2. Demonstrable experience in project finance, administration, logistics, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and/or compliance

 

Skills & Competencies:

  1. Fluency in English, Dari and Pashto
  2. Strong analytical skills and business acumen preferred
  3. Attention to detail; ability to prepare accurate and professional documents.
  4. Good interpersonal skills
  5. Computer literacy
  6. Ability to manage a large and complex workload, with limited supervision
  7. Motivation, flexibility, and capacity to work under pressure to short deadlines, and strong sense of personal initiative.

Skills Required

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. Please send your Cover Letter and CV into one combined file. Applicantions without mentiong the duty station in the subject line will not be considered. 

 

Submission Email:

ROPHR@rootsofpeace.org 

Submission Email:

ROPHR@rootsofpeace.org 

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