Meal Manager - Partnership Programme

The MEAL manager will be responsible for leading   monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning for the Partnership Program. This will include establishing best practice MEAL tools and procedures, pro-cessing and analyzing data collected from partners and other sources, managing a team of field monitors, supporting the development of complaints mechanisms, and strengthening partner MEAL capacities.  Detailed Responsibilities & Tasks:  Project Monitoring and Evaluation: - Lead the strengthening of key M&E systems and processes, including establishing a system for third party monitoring. - Reruit, train and supervise a team of field monitors. - Process, analyze and report on the data generated through partners and field monitors for monthly reporting for sit-reps, donor reporting and internal learningCross-check the data received from partners with other sources, including field monitors, peers and secondary sources. Flag any concerns over data integrity or fraud to the management team. - Support the partners and partnership officers with the design of project log frames, including SMART indicators and means of verification -Develop and update project-level MEAL plans and follow up on their implementation - Support partners with the creation of assessment and monitoring tools, including questionnaires and PDM forms as well as questions for focus group discussions, based on the regional Syria Response toolkit - Lead project evaluations, where appropriate. -Lead the roll-out of the regional  MEAL minimum standards in the partnerships program Information Management -Set up and manage a central database to compile beneficiary and output data and to generate statistics about the overall programme reach -Produce disaggregated, programme-level data per sector and analyze through a gender lens -Lead on the input to the regional sit rep -Support partners and the partnership programme team with creating programme-level MEAL tools and MEAL plans for proposal development and donor reporting -Roll-out sectoral and thematic assessments informing the response planning -Contribute to documenting the impact of the response through statistics, case studies and interactive maps for partners, donors and other stakeholders. Capacity Building -Provide capacity building on MEAL and accountability to partner staff -Provide regular coaching to partner MEAL staff -Develop guidance and training materials on MEAL in Arabic, adapted to the context -Support the IT consultant with introducing mobile data collection system with partners -Support partners with the set-up of feedback and complaints mechanisms and follow up on the handling of complaints Accountability and learning -Support partners and the partnership team with conducting internal evaluations and learning workshops -Support the partnership coordinator and the partnership officers with capacity assessments and bi-annual reviews -Lead  the roll-out of the feedback and complaints mechanism in line with regional SOPs and tools in cooperation with the partners -Exchange of tools, experience and approaches with other CARE colleagues in the region -Participate in the inter-agency MEAL working group, utilize learning from peers and contribute to inter-agency MEAL initiatives Other: Provide cover for other posts when needed and carry out any other responsibilities as requested by the Partnership Program Coordinator.