MEAL Officer

Under the direct supervision of the Executive Director and in close collaboration with the Emergency food distribution lead partner, the MEAL officer will be responsible for the development of M&E policy, participation in the MEAL capacity building plan and the implementation of M&E policy.

Monitoring and Evaluation Activities

• Ensure with the Project officer and the project lead partner that the key indicators are monitored
• Contribute to the development of Mada monitoring tools
• Train Program Teams in MEAL tools
• Design, conduct and analyse quantitative monitoring exercises:  Survey design, survey coding in ODK, and data interpretation
• Design, conduct and analyse qualitative monitoring exercises:  interview design, interview execution, transcription, coding, and data interpretation
• Support research design and data collection for final project evaluations: includes definition of the tools and methodologies, identifying human and logistical resources needed and liaising with the relevant departments, design of research tools

Reporting

• Under the Executive director, participate in drafting the reports as follows:
  • Participate in data cleaning, compilation and analysis of data.
  • First drafts of M&E reports.
  • Communicate M&E results to Project Managers through debriefings, presentations, and report sharing.
  • Propose recommendations to Mada association based on the outcomes of the MEAL activities.
  • Prepare summary presentation and summary sheet of the findings

Accountability

• Representing Mada Association on the field and with beneficiaries by providing information on services provided by Mada or otherwise, referring cases/needs, providing the complaints and referrals mechanism, and acting in a professional and accountable manner.
• Report all negative feedback or lack of accountability, protection issues or “Do no Harm” policy breach to his/her line manager.

Internal Communication

• Participate in programs meetings and provide update on MEAL activities to all Mada;s employees.
• Organize presentations of the findings with program teams.
• Participate in all trainings that his/her supervisor will see suitable.
• Support the dissemination of the achieved results, success stories and testimonies at international, national and local level, among partners and stakeholders.

Institutional Knowledge Building

• Upon request from Executive Director, collect internal and external data to produce IKB reports on specific issues.
• Ensure that all MEAL documents are properly archived and easily accessible.

Capacity building/ Planned by the lead partner

• Participate in the capacity building activities planned by the lead partner
• Ensure the proper documentation and filing of the monitoring tools