MEAL Officer – International Medical Corps Vacancy Announcement, February 9 2023
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Organization: International Medical Corps (IMC)
Position: MEAL Officer
Location: Jijiga – Awubare, Sheder, Somali
Employment: Full time
Deadline: February 13, 2023
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Job Description
Vacancy Announcement Internal/External
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Job Title: | Meal Officer | ||
Reference number: | Vac /0327/23 | ||
Vacancy posting date: | February 3, 2023 | ||
Closing Date: | February 13, 2023 | ||
Duty Station: Jijiga (Awubare) | |||
Duration of Employment | |||
Employment Type: | Fixed term | ||
Salary: | As per the organization scale | ||
Job Purpose Summary:
The role of the Officer, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) is to support better performance and greater accountability by implementing evidence-based program/project management at the field level, to guide and improve performance. The Officer, MEAL will provide technical support to the design of methodologies and tools to ensure the availability of clear and accurate information at the program/project level. The Officer, MEAL also plays a vital role in data management and quality by designing a MEAL system that adheres to the IMC’s Global MEAL Guidelines, the MEAL Minimum Standards for Quality, and the guiding MEAL policies and procedures, among others. The Officer, MEAL will provide technical support to the program and build capacity in the country mission through strengthening learning and knowledge sharing across the IMC and with the wider humanitarian community. The role holder will also support project development, including the preparation and management of the MEAL budget and project design.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSABILITIES
Assessments, Surveys and Evaluations
- Provide technical support on methodology and implementation to sectors conducting surveys
- Develop survey or evaluation TOR and coordinate the implementation.
- Review survey questionnaires for relevancy and potential bias
- Analyze survey data for potential errors
- Review all survey reports prepared to ensure data relevance and consistency
- Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high quality data collection
- Timely plan and initiate all pre and post intervention assessments and surveys
- For internal evaluations coordinate necessary staff and resources to conduct evaluation
- Review all evaluation reports prepared to ensure data relevance and consistency
- Together with the relevant field team always undertake Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) whenever or wherever there is distribution to beneficiaries. And report back the findings with photos on regular basis.
Data Management
- Support in piloting and management of the DHIS2 database to improve monitoring and data management within the organization
- Build capacity of staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected
- Regularly review data received from field offices to ensure correct usage and quality of data management systems.
Beneficiary Accountability
- Together with the country senior M&E officer, field office managers and other relevant staffs setup beneficiary complaint handling committee at field office level.
- Facilitate the responses to the feedback/complaints raised by beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
- Ensure the complaints raised by the beneficiaries and action taken are appropriately documented into the logbook using the form for this purpose and reported to the country office
- Provide a compiled report on the process, findings, and challenges of beneficiary complaint handling mechanism on monthly basis to his/her supervisor.
- Always involve in drafting beneficiary selection criteria for distribution and monitor the distribution is done based on these criteria.
- Make sure that beneficiaries are aware of the precise quantity and quality of items they are supposed to receive so that they can identify when there is problem by providing clear and appropriate information to them based on the information sharing guideline.
- If required provide training to the field staffs on beneficiary accountability focusing on CHS, Sphere standards and others.
- In collaboration with other relevant staffs conduct regular satisfaction assessments of the beneficiaries using innovative methodology such as the Listen Learn Act (LLA) or other forums of qualitative assessment; FGDs or KII and report back to the field office manager and country MEAL team.
Networking
- Attending field level coordination forums (M&E) when delegated by the line supervisor and ensure strong representation of IMC and update IMC program & management staff on the issues.
- Keep abreast of new M and E tools and approaches and share to the IMC Ethiopia staff.
Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.
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Below are the requirements for this International Medical Corps Vacancy Announcement
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Job Requirements
· Typically, Degree in Information Technology, Statistics, Demography or related discipline, public health with M&E experience. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
· Typically, at least 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of programs, preferably with a non-Government organization + years of relevant and progressive experience in [INSERT TEXT HERE]
· Knowledge on humanitarian accountability and understanding of the current accountability initiatives. . Experience in analyzing data
· Knowledge on research and data collection methods and familiarity with statistical tools such as SPSS, Epilnfo, SMART, STAT 0t and others (at least two).
· Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
· Knowledge of local language is Mandatory.
· Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in team environment
How to Apply
Interested applicants who meet the above requirements should submit their application letter and CV through www.ethiojobs.net before February 13, 2023
Please specify the place you are applying for on your application
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Note: IMC is equal opportunity employer and hence candidate from all background: religion, ethnic group, qualified women and people living with disabilities, etc are all encouraged to apply.