MEAL Coordinator – Trόcaire Lebanon

Technical support to Country Team

• Lead on the design and roll-out of the country-level MEL plan.
• Provide technical support to the program team to design/update and implement MEL plans at grant and/or project level.
• Provide training and technical support on monitoring, evaluation, and learning to program staff, including results-based management, data collection, analysis, and interpretation including qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This includes ethical considerations in data collection and analysis.
• Provide technical support on the design, updating, and reporting on logic models and results in the framework for grants and projects especially Irish Aid.
• Support program team on identifying feasible indicators for the technical program areas. This includes the use of Trócaire global and common indicators.
• Advice and support program staff to champion the importance of sex, age, and diversity (SAD) data collection and analysis, including the use of practical indicators and monitoring tools and processes (both qualitative and quantitative).
• Support program team in conducting timely monitoring and learning activities, including quality assurance of the design and use of data collection, and analysis tools that contribute to quality reporting, increased accountability, visibility of program impact, and continual program improvement.
• Lead on the development, design, and management of grant or project evaluations, baselines, or research.
• Support the program team to use MEL learnings to inform and adapt program implementation. This includes supporting learning mechanisms such as reflection meetings, pause and reflect meetings, after-action reviews, etc.
• Coordinate with the Accountability Project Manager to achieve the MEL-related components of the Trócaire Accountability & Programme Quality Framework (APQF).
• Support the program team on measuring reach including the annual collection and reporting of reach at the country level in line with the organizational approach.
• Support country team when conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments and implementing relevant action plans with partners.
• In collaboration with program staff, lead on the development and implementation of a partner MEL capacity development plan, generating training materials and resources where needed but drawing on organizational resources.
• In collaboration with the program, staff leads on providing training and technical support to partner on results-based management including providing feedback on logic models and result frameworks for strategic grants.
• Through training and close accompaniment, support partner staff to develop skills and competencies to gather, manage and analyze quality data with a focus on SAD data.
• In collaboration with program staff support and mentor partner staff to analyze and interpret data ethically to inform program quality control, produce quality donor reports, document lessons learned and program impact, and inform future project development.
• Support partners to implement quality field monitoring in a manner that is sensitive to the different needs, responsibilities, and capabilities of program participants and that builds their organizational MEL system.
• Provide training and technical support to the program team to design and implement targeting approaches in line with the organization's approach.
• Provide training and technical support on Technology in MEAL especially the use of CommCare.

Strengthening MEAL related partner capacity in collaboration with Project Managers

• In collaboration with program staff, support partners on the development, design, and management of strategic grant or project evaluations, baselines, or research.
• In collaboration with program staff, lead on providing training and technical support to partners on technology for MEAL and advise on data protection and security in MEL.
• In collaboration with the BDGM and program team support the development of institutional funding applications (concept notes and full proposals) especially support on context analysis, targeting, ToC, indicators, and MEL plans.
• In collaboration with the BDGM and program team support the reporting process for strategic grants especially quality control of monitoring and evaluation data.
• In collaboration with the BDGM and program team ensure a calendar of key MEL events for all grants is maintained to support contract compliance
• Attend strategic meetings with donors, consortium members, or key stakeholders in relation to programming, particularly MEAL.
• Actively participate in relevant in-country MEL coordination meetings to get and share experiences
• In collaboration with the program, staff provide training and technical support to the design and implement appropriate targeting approaches, technical support on measuring reach.

Documenting and dissemination of learning

• Promote and model best practices in documenting, disseminating, and using learning.
• Capture relevant MEL approaches, methodologies, and/or tools and training resources developed at country and/or partner-level to encourage learning to share at country and/or organizational level.
• Capture lessons from partner capacity building to share the country and/or organizational level.
• Actively engage with the Global MEAL Team sharing learning from Lebanon and Syria.
• Learn from other organizational and external documented learning in rolling out new approaches and methods (e.g. digital data monitoring and innovative participatory M&E methods) and explore how to apply these in the Lebanon and Syria contexts.

Support Institutional Funding

Other

• Participate in wider organizational planning and review work.
• Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned by the line manager that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility

Educational Background

• Degree in social sciences, development studies, or related area.

Experience 

• At least 5 years experience in program monitoring, evaluation, and/or development;
• Experience in implementing results-focused monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems.
• Previous experience of quantitative/ qualitative data management and analysis
• Experience with digital data collection software, such as CommCare, Kobo Toolbox, or similar software.
• Experience in participatory M&E approaches;
• Previous experience working with local partner organizations.
• Previous experience in capacity building including facilitating training;
• Demonstrated commitment to international development/ justice work.
• Previous experience with designing MEL systems for major international donors (European Union, UN, Irish Aid, UK donors, etc.).
• Experience working in MEL for protection, basic assistance or/and livelihoods programs
• Experience in providing training and accompaniment to local organizations on MEL.
• Experience in working with CommCare, or similar tools
• Experience in rolling out Common Humanitarian Standards (CHS) within an organization especially MEL components.
• Familiar with working in the fragile and conflict-affected area

Skills

• Excellent leadership skills, including the ability to lead and influence, and to motivate staff to align behind a shared vision and objectives.
• Technical skills to implement M&E in a gender-sensitive manner, including tool design, sampling, data collection, analysis.
• Computer Skills: High level of proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint. Good knowledge of IT systems such as cloud platforms, apps, Excel, databases, and online data collection systems such as Kobo Toolbox or CommCare
• Facilitation, coordination, and communication skills, with an ability to communicate to a variety of audiences;
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into different formats (e.g., reports, short summaries, presentations);
• Experience leveraging performance monitoring data for improving ongoing program
• Excellent spoken and written Arabic and English.

Qualities

• Strong commitment to principles of partnership, solidarity, social justice, and localization
• Excellent networking skills with the ability to establish good relationships, confidence in engaging with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders
• Constructively critical and analytical
• Entrepreneurial, affinity to creativity and innovations
• Open-minded and flexible in approach
• Effective communication
• Readiness to work outside of the framed job description

Knowledge

• In-depth knowledge of PCM especially as it relates to MEL including contextual and needs analysis, targeting approaches, baselines, monitoring, evaluations, and learning approaches.
• Results-Based Management especially results-based monitoring and evaluation.
• General understanding of development issues and contexts, preferably in the areas of Humanitarian, Sustainable Livelihoods, SGBV, and Women’s Empowerment;
• Good understanding of the humanitarian context in Syria and Lebanon
• Availability to work outside regular hours to meet deadlines and travel within Syria and Lebanon when necessary and sometimes on short notice.

Other

• Must have right to work in Lebanon