MEAL Officer

MONITORING, EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING

• Develop, implement and maintain quality MEAL systems and processes for projects, ensuring the capture the progress against outcomes, outputs and activities of the projects;
• Ensure and coordinate project targets are being met and oversee the overall monitoring;
• Clean and compile program related data at different intervals and ensure the quality of the data through data verification processes;
• Ensure that adequate MEAL support is provided to planning, and designing of projects, and targeting, selection of beneficiaries, needs and context analysis.
• Support the documentation of the project progress through monitoring the availability of the project documents;
• Ensure that the accountability systems, including complaints and feedback systems are in place and operate according to global standards and SOPs.
• To support in strengthening staff and partner capacity for quality implementation of MEAL systems. Provide trainings in MEAL – related topics.
• Ensure that learning (lessons learned, recommendations) is extracted from information collected by all project partners, properly disseminated at the different levels and consistently used to improve the quality of interventions
• Ensure that the project implementation is supported by well-functioning MEAL systems, tools, and processes.
• Provide regular feedback to project management and partners on various implementation issues and challenges for their early resolution.
• Ensure that evaluations, needs assessments and case studies are appropriately carried out

• MEAL officer will coordinate MEAL activities across all project partners and participate in relevant coordination bodies.

REPORTING

• Establish monthly, quarterly, and annual reports through compiling data from the project team and in accordance with donor requirements;
• Ensure that all relevant data is well captured within the databases;
• Support in designing various reporting tools and templates
• Document the success stories captured by the field teams;

   

Function Specific Skills and Experience

• Bachelor degree in any relevant field
• 2-3 years’ experience in MEAL practices
• Experience in data collection, management, analysis and presentation methods and tools, and ability to set up systems for reliable data collection
• Clear and precise oral and written communication skills
• Experience in effective report writing 
• Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English; French is a plus.
• Experience in CEA mainstreaming
• Self-sufficient in computers (particularly Excel, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint)
• Experience in data management
• Experience in Project Cycle Management