Overview
The MEAL Officer (Maternity Cover) is primarily responsible for a sector’s programmes and projects’ Monitoring, Accountability, and Learning systems. The role supports the roll-out of quality assurance systems, data cleaning, consolidation, and analysis.
Tasks Summary
- Undertake responsibility for the roll-out of the MEAL system in SCI’s programmes.
- Develop database to capture and facilitate data demand from sector by project, location and total reach.
- Develop, in collaboration with the Sr. MIS Officer, XLS forms on data collection tools.
- Lead in maintaining, updating and cleaning key MEAL databases.
- Ensure data quality across sector database handled by MEAL and support sector unit on DQA.
- Lead in consolidating sector’s outputs (IPTT) from different grants and zone/camp wise.
- Lead in sector’s monitoring systems, including tools, formats, and record keeping systems.
- Provide support to the project management in developing reports.
- Work alongside the Accountability team to set up solid feedback and participation mechanisms.
- Collaborate with Accountability and Programme team, to conduct focus group discussions, post distribution monitoring, child participatory activities.
- Conduct quality monitoring of programme activities, measured against international standards and using participatory methodologies.
- Support on program and partners staff capacity to identify and measure key monitoring indicators and technical skills on data collection, analysis.
- Support reporting to donors by providing management information to programme managers.
- Ensure that Monthly, Quarterly and Annual field level reports include accurate key data summaries.
- Develop periodic report for the sector in terms of reach per project and sector wise.
- Coordinate and communicate with MIS manager/officers regarding current databases and information management systems.
- Maintain liaison with MEAL unit colleagues of PDQ department.
Experience Requirements
- At least 3 years’ experience of working in in Monitoring, Evaluation, research work, or project management areas.
- Understanding of the situation of children in Gaza - problems and capacities of children.
- Ability and willingness to travel widely in project areas.
- Capacity of MEAL related training facilitation.
- Ability to work in a team with flexibility to undertake challenging task and adapt to different working conditions.
- Problem solving and decision making.
- Applying technical and professional expertise.
- Working effectively with others.
- Communicating with impact.
- Networking.
Qualification Requirements
• University degree in Social Science, Statistics, economics, math, or any equivalent field.
