MEAL Manager (Call for CVs)

Vision Development Organization (VDO), founded in 2015 by Afghan women leaders, is a national, women-led NGO dedicated to advancing the dignity, resilience, and leadership of women, youth, and marginalized communities. Despite Afghanistan’s complex humanitarian and governance challenges, VDO has grown into a trusted, principled, and adaptive organization, delivering programs in protection, education, livelihoods, social inclusion, and community development across multiple provinces. Anchored in integrity, accountability, and operational excellence, VDO upholds strong governance, safeguarding, and compliance standards while championing women’s leadership and equitable, high-quality service delivery.

• Lead the overall Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning system for VDO projects and core programs.
• Develop organizational MEAL frameworks, project-specific MEAL plans, indicator tracking tools, data collection systems, reporting calendars, and learning mechanisms.
• Ensure that all projects have clear indicators, baselines, targets, means of verification, and data quality standards. Supervise MEAL staff, field monitors, data teams, and accountability personnel.
• Lead baseline, midline, endline, post-distribution monitoring, needs assessments, satisfaction surveys, and evaluation processes.
• Ensure data quality through routine verification, field monitoring, spot checks, and Data Quality Assessments. Strengthen Accountability to Affected Populations through complaints and feedback mechanisms, community consultations, and response tracking.
• Coordinate with program, donor, and management teams to ensure evidence-based decision-making.
• Produce analytical reports, dashboards, lessons learned, and recommendations for adaptive programming. 
• Ensure integration of safeguarding, PSEA, gender, disability inclusion, data protection, and Do No Harm principles in all MEAL activities.
• Support donor reporting, proposal development, audits, evaluations, and organizational learning events.

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, MEAL, or related field.
• Minimum 7–10 years of MEAL experience, including at least 4 years in management.
• Strong knowledge of logical frameworks, results-based management, indicators, evaluations, accountability systems, and data quality assurance.
• Experience managing MEAL teams across provinces.
• Strong skills in Kobo, ODK, Excel, Power BI, SPSS, or similar tools.
• Excellent analytical, reporting, and leadership skills.
• English excellent, Dari and Pashtu fluent.

Vision Development Organization (VDO) is accepting CVs and applications from qualified candidates from 13 June 2026 to 27 June 2026 to establish a candidate roster (database) for future employment opportunities. Eligible applicants with relevant qualifications and work experience are encouraged to apply through the Google Form available below on the website. Shortlisted candidates will be included in the roster and considered for vacancies based on project needs. The opportunity is open to both women and men, and Mahram expenses for female staff will be supported where applicable. 

All qualified candidates are requested to copy and open the below given link and follow the instructions:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPbOZxKu_uIqknTxYGDq3uUzl8yvVacIIkAuTb3N8ecvpOoQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=109440621383724205465

applications received without a given link and/or online system will be disqualified and removed from the entire process. 

Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test or interviews. If you are not contacted Two or Three Weeks after the closing date .please know that your application has not been successful for the post.