Provincial Safeguard and Monitoring Associate (PSMA)

ARM Consulting is a research and management consulting firm holding a valid business registration license issued by the Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce and Trade. Founded in 2015, we aim 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.

ARM Consulting seeks an experienced Provincial Safeguarding and Monitoring Associate (PSMA) to join our team in implementing a multi-year monitoring contract for a UN agency. The successful candidates will be critical in leading, coordinating, and implementing monitoring missions at the district and provincial levels.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the project team members, develop a safeguards monitoring plan;
• Work closely with the team to ensure social inclusion and gender requirements are adhered to in all project activities at the community level;
• Support community-level stakeholders in identifying appropriate local women’s organisers;
• Incorporate gender issues into the irrigation sub-projects specific Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs) in line with Environmental and Social Management Framework requirements and, most importantly, in gabion sheet weaving through wages by women;
• Ensure that the IPs/Contractors properly implement safeguard instruments (ESMP/ESCOP) during sub-project implementation.
• Ensure the Occupational Health and Safety measures applicable to the working and camp sites are considered to avoid/mitigate potential incidents involving labour and project staff.
• Ensure that sub-project level GRCs are functional and the beneficiaries are informed of the GRM process to register their grievances. Promote greater interaction between women’s and men’s CDCs and other village structures in all aspects of project development to enhance the achievement of the project’s objectives;

Use Women’s and men's CDCs and other appropriate forums to reach vulnerable groups, especially female-headed households, at the village level to (i) disseminate information about the EFSP and (ii) consult men and women as far as possible in the design, implementation and monitoring of proposed irrigation and water management activities including identification of specific measures to prevent/mitigate adverse social and environmental impacts of proposed activities and identify the social structures; (iii) consult and persuade women-headed households to participate in gabion sheet weaving and (iv) identification of social structure from which women will get benefit e.g. cloth washing space, water collection point in canals and Karezes, footpath bridges, etc. (v) All consultation meetings need to be properly documented and reported.

• Ensure that the views of marginalised people, especially widows and women-headed households, are sought at different stages of the sub-project, namely planning, design, and implementation and, most importantly, in gabion sheet weaving through wages by women etc.;
• Support implementing partner organisations in building the capacities of community mobilisers, especially women mobilisers, so that all project activities adhere to environmental and social safeguards;
• Support women organisers to promote participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) of water resources and irrigation sub-project activities by women and other vulnerable groups;
• Increase vulnerable groups’ awareness of the project, particularly that of women, by disseminating information on it through locally and culturally relevant communication channels such as mosques, village meetings, women’s CDCs and NGOs, as well as broadcast and print media.
• Any other tasks assigned.

Please ONLY apply if you meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture | Knowledge of Economics | Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA) | Relevant experience in agricultural management or business.
• Five years of experience in the development sector of Afghanistan with a particular focus on data collection and M&E;
• Fluency in spoken and written English;
• Ability to use Kobo Toolbox, Open Data Kit (ODK), Survey CTO, and other similar data collection tools;
• Must be residing in provinces where the duty station will be based;
• Ability to write high-quality monitoring reports;

Please submit your CV and supporting documents using the link below. Anyone found with fake or forged documents will be automatically disqualified.

https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/MTiQ4J3O