MEAL Manager

Responsibilities: 

Team Management

• Lead and manage M&E team.
• Plan and manage team’s workload ensuring work is appropriately allocated and responsibilities delegated.
• Provide technical support and on-going on-the-job training and coaching to MEAL and program staff, contributing to their capacity building and career development. 

Program Development

• Coordinating and drafting of concept notes and proposals, working closely with program teams, finance and operational staff, as well as headquarters and technical advisors to facilitate input.
• Identifying potential donors, attending donor meetings and carrying out donor research in order to understand their mission, policies, strategies, procedures and priorities so as to prepare appropriate funding strategies.
• Collaborating on the development of program strategies and plans actively contributing to program coordination meetings and planning sessions.
• Provide technical advice and participate in conducting research for new proposals and support surveys for on-going interventions.
• Developing and maintaining project management tools such as funding trackers grant trackers, reporting templates and reporting schedules ensuring deadlines are met.

Reporting

• Responsible for the coordination of donor reports across multiple sectors (Livelihoods, WASH, Shelter, Protection and Education) ensuring that the approval process is followed on time to produce high quality reports.
• Working with Systems and Finance to ensure documentation is correct and properly recorded (e.g. with narrative financial reports and waivers).

Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Working with program teams and partners, ensure M&E plans are in place and followed and that reporting templates are up-to-date, effective and appropriate.
• Build the capacity of the M&E Officers and program teams in the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, including with digital data gathering tools.
• Act as focal point and provide field-level support for the planning and implementation of M&E activities throughout the program cycle of Nabad and partners.
• Ensure on-going learning on M&E tools is incorporated into program design.
• Research/develop appropriate market analysis tools and capacity and ensure that information is shared, analyzed and acted on in a timely manner.

Accountability

• Ensure appropriate accountability mechanisms are put in place and functional.
• Support the effective management of the Complaint Response Mechanism (CRM) to ensure maximum protection of program participants and the efficient and transparent use of Nabad’s resources.
• Promote the communication of the CRM to all beneficiaries, partners and others.
• Ensure Nabad and Partners adhere to and promote Nabad’s Code of Conduct and its Associated policies (Program Participants Protection Policy, Child Safeguarding Policy and Anti Trafficking in Persons Policy) Anti-Fraud Policy and CHS (Common humanitarian standards).
• Support programming and field staff to ensure that projects are designed and carried out with participation from all targeted communities and that information is shared with communities.

Learning

• Ensure that all assessment/evaluation reports meet Nabad and donor criteria, and promote the integration of recommendations and lessons learnt in project planning, project’s adjustment and future programming.
• Ensure learning reviews are conducted and documented for all projects.

Information Management

• Design data collection tools including use of Digital Data Gathering tools.
• Improve the storage and dissemination of information within the program.
• Contribute with high quality data and analysis to donor reports on project deliverables.
• Oversee and monitor all referrals made internally and externally.
• Generate report on referrals on a monthly basis.