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Position Summary:

The central role of this job holder is to lead PQAL activities and provide technical support to the PQAL Manager of the country office to establish PQAL system for Justice, Education and Opportunity programs with child protection and gender across all War Child’s Afghanistan programs, and provide technical support to the provincial PQAL Officers (Kandahar, Nangarhar, Balkh and Samangan). He/she will support project staff in technical M&E issues as well as ensure sound technical quality of legal, psychosocial, Child Protection and livelihood components. This will include thorough analysis of regular field monitoring visits to project sites to support and stimulate communities to plan and consider how they can mitigate the impact of legal, psychosocial, child protection, and livelihood and mobilize resources to implement

Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning Management (10%)

• Provide technical support for developing, reviewing, and updating the PQAL Policy framework, mainly on designing clear objectives, results, and indicators.
• Provide technical support in conducting situation analysis, mainly in designing study methodologies, tools, and sampling strategies.
• Review and ensure high quality of program/project log-frames, results frameworks.
• Provide technical support in developing PQAL monthly and weekly action plan based on project implementation team.

Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (70%)

Monitoring, Baseline, Mid-line, End-line and Reporting

• Provide technical support in developing Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Plan for programs and projects.
• Provide technical support in conducting baseline studies mainly on methodologies, tools and sampling strategies.
• Develop monitoring tools or data collection tools for justice, education, and opportunity themes.
• Develop databases for baseline, Mid-line and End-line surveys in Kobo.
• Develop Indicators Performance Tracking Table for each program intervention.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative data for new proposals or new initiatives as per the need.
• Provide technical support on collecting data and managing reporting requirements on War Child core indicators.
• Conduct field monitoring visits from the project sites on a regular basis
• Collect qualitative and quantitative data as per the developed dataset using Kobo.

Accountability and Program Quality

• Ensure that WC
•  PQAL officers and partners M&E staff at the provincial level have clear understanding on program accountability to children and communities through training, mentoring, and coaching.
• Ensure that an effective system for Feedback and Suggestion mechanism established and functioning at the program implementation levels.
• Ensure that feedback, suggestions and inputs from the targeted communities and beneficiaries are registered, recorded, and maintained properly.
• Follow up and support for the research on feedback, suggestions and inputs take place to ensure the accuracy and truthiness of feedback, suggestion, and inputs within the community.
• Ensure that periodic PQAL reports are shared and debriefed at different levels; action plans for addressing the quality gaps or any shortfalls are developed and followed up.
• Share the experiences on PQAL to WC and its implementing partner and bring new experiences and innovative ideas for improving the accountability system in country office program.
• Make sure to lead on youth participation in conducting baseline studies, mid-line, end-line, and on-going monitoring to build up their capacity and confidence.

Evaluations and Learning:

• Provide technical support in conducting/facilitating strategic program evaluations mainly across Justice, Education and Opportunity pillars.
• Provide technical support for conducting mid-term as well as final project evaluations as per the projects’ requirements. A thorough reviewing of evaluation ToRs, developing methodologies, and sampling strategy
• Facilitate the outcome assessment in line with War Child PQAL protocols.
• Take lead on writing up the outcome assessment reports and de-brief the findings to PQAL team, program implementation team and WC implementing partner’s staff.
• Provide support to PQAL manager in conducting lessons learned workshop.

Providing technical support to Provincial PQAL Officers (20%)

• Provide PQAL technical assistant WC implementing partner’s M&E and project implementation teams as per the need.
• Provide PQAL capacity building training to WC’s implementing staff.
• Provide orientation session on data collection tools and PQAL planning to WC’s implementing staff.
• Provide training with an on-line system and make sure the system is updated and running smoothly.
• Conduct field monitoring visits from the project sites in WC’s project interventions

Skills Required

• English Fluency
• MS Excel
• MS Office

Submission Guideline:

Interested applicants are invited to send their resume and an accompanying cover letter electronically to:  kabulhr@wcc-afg.org 

War Child is an equal opportunity employer; qualified Afghan women are strongly encouraged to apply.

The closing date is March 09, 2024 Please ensure your application email has the subject heading of ‘Program Quality, Accountability and Learning/ Monitoring and Evaluation Officer VA# HR/WC-024' Otherwise, your application will not be considered.  Only those applicants selected for Test and an interview will be notified. No phone calls please

Submission Email:

kabulhr@wcc-afg.org