Overview
The MEAL Officer will lead MEAL functions in a malaria prevention and control project, interfacing with communities and supporting project performance and quality. The role involves establishing a robust accountability mechanism with targeted communities and managing databases.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead MEAL functions in the malaria prevention and control project.
- Interface with communities, spending at least 25% of work time in the field.
- Support the performance and quality of the project.
- Establish a robust accountability mechanism with communities.
- Implement the MEAL Plan, archiving and managing databases.
- Plan, coordinate, and prioritize for preparing quality data reports.
- Ensure timely data entry and share reports.
- Lead program staffs in data entry, data check, and compilation.
- Collect data from source on a regular frequency for data quality assurance.
- Consolidate timely collection of data for project activities and output indicators.
- Support database development and management for surveys, need assessments, and program expansion.
- Ensure data collection forms/materials are present at township.
- Maintain confidentiality of health-related data.
- Maintain database for total reach, disaggregating data by gender, age, ethnicity, and disability.
- Conduct dialogue with program field staff for enhancing MEAL tools effectiveness.
- Follow up on MEAL Plan with program staff to collect data and maintain database.
- Monitor child participation using the Child Participation Indicator tool.
- Support collection of data for internal studies.
- Support training for Mobile Case-based Reporting of malaria volunteers and analyzing reported data.
- Participate in mobile migrant mapping.
- Contribute to Total Reach annual planning and reporting.
- Undertake field monitoring visits focusing on programme quality aspects.
- Assist in donor report preparation.
- Develop plans for quality monitoring.
- Conduct quality monitoring using checklists.
- Share findings from quality monitoring and facilitate action plan preparation.
- Conduct follow-up monitoring visits.
- Make and manage database from quality monitoring.
- Support MEAL Coordinator and programme staff for developing effective working coordination.
- Perform regular field visits to ensure data quality and accuracy.
- Conduct quality audits for reports and data submitted by partners.
- Update and manage MEAL tracking tools.
- Assist MEAL coordinator in donor report preparation, including dashboards.
- Support internal and external program/project evaluations, baseline and end-line assessments.
- Support dissemination of baselines/assessments/evaluations and track recommendations.
- Ensure communities are oriented on the Feedback and Response Mechanism.
- Ensure program standards are exhibited in selected sites.
- Establish an effective system for feedback handling and response mechanisms.
- Guide MEAL assistants in conducting discussions with communities to collect feedbacks.
- Assist in carrying out preliminary first inquiry reports for serious feedback.
- Collect data for bi-annual response satisfaction survey.
- Lead and facilitate ongoing data collection analysis for data-driven learning.
- Set up a practical learning mechanism within and across all programs.
- Participate in project design and proposal discussions.
- Support training for partners and project staff on MEAL and data collection tools.
- Ensure common understanding of SCI MEAL framework within the project team.
- Support child safeguarding and child protection mainstreaming into M&E frameworks.
- Support piloting and scaling up local level beneficiary complaints’ mechanisms.
- Prevent fraud, bribery, and corruption.
- Undertake project-related tasks assigned by line manager.
- Work as a positive team member.
- Other activities as required by the project.
- Undertake additional duties within reasonableness of skills and experience.
Required Experience
- At least 4 years experience in related field.
- Relevant knowledge, skills and experience in data management related to DHIS2 System and HMIS system, Malaria Mobile Case Based Report (MCBR) Android Application, especially for Malaria.
- Excellent skills and experience in using Microsoft Access, Excel and other databases.
- Previous working experience of health data management and data analysis in INGO/NGO.
- Experience and knowledge in MEAL concepts; leading/conducting baselines and evaluations.
- Considerable knowledge of developing/reviewing programme frameworks and log-frames, data collection and storage methodologies, methods of analysis and interpretation.
- Experience working with ODK or KoBo Collect and PowerBI.
- Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environments.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science/ Health OR equivalent experience in Social / Development Sciences/Economics/ Information Technology or other related subjects.
