MEAL Coordinator -Addis Ababa

Employee Contract Type:

Key Responsibilities

Quality Program Support and MEAL Systems Management

Lead coordination of baseline assessments, ensuring assessment findings are documented, analyzed and reporting.

Provide trainings and capacity building for project field-level staff and partners as required on MEAL.

Ensure and support the Project Manager and NECR MEAL Manager to ensure the design and development evidence-based project achievements and impact reporting.

Regularly update the indicator tracking tools and database to ensure all project outputs and results are accurately recorded and coordinated to inform project staff of NECR projects.

Provide strategic technical MEAL guidance and leadership to effectively and timely track program progress, effectiveness and impact for donors reporting requirements and for use in new project design.

Lead to conduct multi-sector need assessments, PDMs, onsite monitoring and evaluation. Ensure and work with program and technical team to identify and proactively analyze available project data and/or gather additional external primary data, conduct secondary data reviews to ultimately identify trends to design innovative interventions to improve the implementation of future programs. Organize the planning for project data quality audits and monitor and coordinate routine data quality audits conducted in different sites, compile results at the level of a project and develop actions plans to implement corrective measures.

Implementation & Reporting

Ensure the compilation of gender and inclusive data disaggregated achievement information for both projects.

Implement accountability mechanisms at field level, e.g. complaints and feedback response mechanisms –assessment, design, implementation, and review.

Implement activities to raise awareness of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and handling of serious complaints in line with child safeguarding policy.

Work closely with field project staff to ensure that they implement as per the expected quality standards and checklists of each technical approaches.

Lead the regular monitoring and accountability (CFRM database) reporting and communicate effectively to Humanitarian Accountability Coordinator and MEAL Manager.

Support MEAL Manager to conduct internal evaluations when appropriate based on Search Evaluation Guidelines and Policies.

Documenting Learning

Lead and ensure the documentation of learning for GAC projects and share with the program and technical team for considering in the new designs and adjustment of ongoing implementation. Promote learning in the project, particularly on issues of programme quality and contribute to quality assurance of projects.

Regularly produced and report on best practices and case studies; ensure new analysis and information is available Support evaluation and other research activities, including engaging in ToR preparation, selection of consultants, review of evaluation design and data collection methodology, data quality assurance, data analysis, involvement of stakeholders and dissemination plan. Set up or roll out a system to document lessons learned and best practices of the project.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Minimum (2) years of MEAL experience within the development / humanitarian sector, including experience working with GAC, BHA, ECHO, USG, UN agencies and EU proposal funding process.
• including experience working with USG, UN agencies and EU proposal funding process.
• Experience in project concept/proposal writing to a high standard.
• Proficiency and experience with mobile data collection such as Kobo, CommCare, ODK Collect are crucial as well as proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SPSS, SATA or other similar software.
• Very high attention to detail, with experience refining and editing professional-level content.
• Advanced writing skills in English.
• Experience in large scale humanitarian emergencies
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English
• Good understanding of working with und the donor regulations of USAID/BHA, EU, UNOCHA, etc
• Good understanding of World Vision and Sphere relief standards, as well as the Red Cross and NGO Code of Conduct.
• Strong capacity building and facilitation skills
• Experience of working in humanitarian and development programmes
• Experience developing project proposals and log frames
• Experience of, and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations
• Experience of training and capacity building; strong presentation skills
• Experience developing and improving monitoring and data collection systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching
• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind sets, attention to details
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Experience of representation and ability to represent WVE effectively in external forums.
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports University degree in a relevant subject area (statistics, monitoring & data management, social science, public health, economic development, or a related field) –Master’s Degree in the aforementioned fields is (Desirable)
• Hostile Environmental Awareness Training or other recognized personal security course. (Preferred)
• Further complementary professional qualifications in MEAL, IM, etc. is an asset.