MEAL Officer

• التاريخ : 2024 15 Oct

 

MEAL Officer

Department/Unit	project management
Faculty/Division	MEAL Officer
Classification (salary rates)	HEW Level 7
Employment type	Full Time
Work location	IBB.
Duration	8 Months

Monash MEAL Officer Values 

• Integrity 
• Collaboration 
• Innovation 
• Excellence 

YHO is a non-profit and non-governmental organization aiming to provide health, nutrition, food security and protection services as a humanitarian response to the escalating socio-economic situation in Yemen since 2013

Purpose of the position 

The role of the Monitoring, Evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) officer is to support better performance and greater accountability by implementing Result-Based Management (RBM) of the programs at the field level, in order to guide and improve performance. The MEAL officer will provide technical support for designing methodologies and tools to ensure the availability of clear and accurate data at the project level. The MEAL Officer also plays an important role in data management and quality by designing a MEAL system that adheres to the YHO’s MEAL policy and standard procedures and MEAL Guidelines, as well as YHO’s Minimum Standards for Quality. 

S/He is responsible for designing and implementing all MEAL activities of the projects under the YHO-Ibb field office, the MEAL officer is responsible for assisting the Project Manager in preparing semi- Monthly and Monthly reports on project progress and monitoring the project activities on a regular basis. 

Reporting Line: The position reports to the Senior HR Officer and works with a high degree of autonomy under broad direction 

Supervisory responsibilities: Not applicable 

Financial delegation and/or budget responsibilities: Not applicable 

 

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Develop the MEAL activities and MEAL plan (such as indicators matrix, IPTT) that are aligned with the project log-frame. 
2. Participate with project manager in coaching/training and building capacity of project teams to collect and manage their relevant data and regularly providing them the necessary development to improve performance and accountability on quantitative and qualitative data collection methods.
3. Tracking the project performance on monthly bases, by assessing the progress of the project in achieving the agreed outputs by coordinating the collection and analyzing the progress data against the performance indicators (through the IPTT); and ensuring timely compilation and reporting of data. 
4. Designing and conducting the monitoring assessments (such as PDM, PSM, baseline, and endline assessments)  of the project, in compliance with YHO’s assessment/survey standard procedures.  And use proper sampling techniques (probability and non-probability) with taking into account the desired power; study objectives and type (e.g. single point or multiple points; baseline vs endline); and budget limitations.
5. Oversee and quality assurance of all field data collection exercises, data management, and analysis, as well as contribute to timely and quality reporting on the projects.
6. Organize the planning for project data quality audits and monitor and coordinate routine data quality audits conducted in different sites, compile results at the level of a project, and develop action plans to implement corrective measures.
7. Facilitate the capacity-building process to the project team on knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary for effective MEAL through training and coaching.
8. Organize reviews and learning events that aim to regularly capture the knowledge, good practices, and lessons learned.
9. Support the project team in extracting lessons learned and good practices, and documenting case studies that demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes.
10. Create and integrate graphs in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way.
11. Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

 

Accountability:-

1. Lead on CFM activities, including the development and use of CFM awareness materials and the establishment of a complaints response mechanisms. 
2. Design and implement, under the supervision of the MEAL manager, studies, assessments and learning in coordination and cooperation with sectors’ technical coordinators and project staff.
3. Be responsible for complaints suggestion boxes and visibility items implementation at targeted sites at field level ensuring they are in place and maintained, and that information submitted by phone/hotline or email is entered promptly into the database.
4. Reporting, Communication, Archiving, and Representation.
5. Generate and prepare timely and high-quality reports according to defined methodology and schedule (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, final, assessments, PDMs, baseline and endline surveys reports, accountability reports, …etc.), and other documentation as required.
6. Contribute to the development of donor reports (e.g., analysis and interpretation of project data).
7. Contribute to the development of internal reports (e.g. PDM and PSM reports) and presentation of findings/learnings to relevant team members.
8. Maintain integrity and organization of monitoring documents (including MoVs) and collaborate in their capitalization and archiving.
9. Maintain the archiving and documentation system of the MEAL unit updated (ensure that all the documents of the program/project are properly kept and hardcopy filed in the office).
10. Regularly collate and document lessons learned and share best practices in data collection, M&E with projects/programs staff and/or external stakeholders after the approval of MEAL Manager.
11. Participate in the preparation of the required documents whenever requested for the internal and/or external monitoring (e.g. donor’s-assigned 3rd Party Monitoring Agency (TPM))

Job Requirements 

•  Bachelor’s degree required, in statistics, demographics, public health, or international development preferred. 

•   A minimum of three years of similar work experience is required. 

•   The candidate should be able to work independently – with minimum supervision and guidance from supervisors. 

•   Demonstrated and extensive social media experience is an added advantage. 

•   Good knowledge and strong demonstrated experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning, including participatory approaches. 

•   Experience in and the ability to facilitate capacity building and training at different levels for MEAL and NON-MEAL staff

•   Excellent written and oral English communication skills are required, 

•   additional language skills are a plus, team managing and leading, excellent coordination and organizational skills. 

•   Ability to plan workload and demonstrate accountability for outputs with minimal direct supervision. Ability to work under pressure, ability to prioritize, and commitment to meet deadlines.

Safeguarding Commitments

YHO is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare and beneficiaries with whom YHO GB engages. YHO expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

YHO has a zero tolerance to all forms of violations of Child and Adult Safeguarding and the Code of Conduct by staff

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

 

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. YHO GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

 

Other job-related information 

• Travel (e.g. to other Field visits to field coordinators in the project’s target districts) may be required
• There may be peak periods of work during which the taking of leave may be restricted