MEAL Officer

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

General Responsibilities:

• Support the development of MEAL systems, including procedures, guidelines and tools at the mission level.
• Participate in program design and proposal discussions, including theory of change development and logical framework design.
• Support the program teams in planning for and executing MEAL activities, including, data collection methodologies and tools; and data management, analysis and use.
• Support the implementation, dissemination and use of evaluations and assessments. Also monitoring data in program development, ajustment, or review.
• Contribute to organizational learning through supporting specific analysis, lessons learned, and reports.
• Ensure effective knowledge sharing within the mission
• Promote mainstreaming of specific subjects and ensure that cross-cutting issues are implemented and reflected in programs with special focus on protection mainstreaming, gender, governance and child safeguarding.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Ensure MEAL plan is elaborated for each project under its responsibility and adhered to.
• Carry out field visits, collect and manage all requested project data
• Support program teams in organisation of initial kick-off meetings for each project and launching the PMP monitoring part.
• Support Programs in organisation of lessons learnt or action review workshops. 
• Support programs in data collection, analysis and reporting
• Contribute to the development of Mission MEAL Standard Operation Procedures and train relevant staff on them.
• Ensure project quality and accountability through field visits, providing support to program team and developing appropriate tools and mechanisms to enhance quality delivery of projects.
• Support project specific assessments (baseline, end line) and a multi-sectorial needs assessment. Also, support in beneficiary selection process.
• Contribute to the development of M&E tools including data collection instruments in order to inform SIF about strategic indicators.
• Contribute to the development of monthly, quarterly, annual and donor reports.
• Support internal and external project evaluations, and learning exercises.
• Ensure all information is centrally held, accurate and available. In addition, guide and support the development of appropriate data management systems.
• Implement feedback, suggestions and accountability mechanisms as per SOP
• Provide timely information to staff team about risks related to the projects
• Set the data collection software by providing the tools needed
• Ensure SIF reports timely relevant data to partners and within the mechanisms for each project under his responsibility.
• Report performed activities and achievements to line manager.
• Perform Any additional task requested by line manager

MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: A Bachelor degree in Economics, Political or Social Sciences, Quantitative or Statistical Analysis, Management Information Systems or any relevant degree.
• Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation. Demonstrated experience in project proposal & report writing.
• Languages: Fluency in Arabic and English. French would be a plus. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Experience in project cycle management
• Ability to build, manage, motivate teams and individuals to achieve set objectives and targets.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic;
• Computer skills (MS Package), knowledge of statistical software and/or qualitative data management software will be an advantage;
• Experience with mobile data collection software (ODK, Kobo Collect);
• Knowledge of GIS software is an asset;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Respect and promote SIF’s Policies and procedures
• Report to your line manager any discrepancies of SIF’s policies among the team or partners
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.