MEAL Officer (2 Positions)

Location: Harargeh, Ethiopia

Deadline: January 13, 2025

Job Description

Major Responsibilities /Job Description:

To ensure compliance activities are executed so that program accountability, requirements and results are met and delivered.

• Plan and implement compliance activities to ensure program accountability is ensured, requirements are met and result are delivered as per humanitarian principles, standards and procedures.

Ensure the support in refining tools, mechanisms and systems to make sure the establishment of quality commodity management.

• Support in improving monitoring systems, revise tools and mechanisms to establish quality commodity management in terms of warehousing, documentation, overall commodity flow and food transfer.

To enable planning and conduct field visit to ensure evidences are verified and open findings/gaps are closed as per standards and requirements.

• Plan and conduct field visit to verify evidences and close open findings reported through regular live food distribution observations, end use check, and post distribution monitoring.

To facilitate the coordination among both HO and field offices staff in which compliance activities are conducted accordingly.

• Lead compliance works in cooperation with food resource management, food monitoring, and field offices.

To make certain the preparation of follow up matrix sheet based on observed findings so that they are closed in a timely manner.

• Review and discuss findings observed by food monitoring team and prepare a follow up matrix sheets for follow up to close findings in timely manner.

Ensure representation of WVE in external meetings and technical working group to confirm compliance and risk monitoring issues are addressed

• Active representation in any risk monitoring meetings and compliance sessions like technical working group.

To help field staff in developing their capacity on commodity management to ensure compliance is sustainably and effectively maintained.

• Build and develop the capacity of the field staff in commodity management and implementation standards to ensure compliance is sustainably and effectively maintained.

 

Work Location: Miessio (Somalia Region) and Doba (West Hararge Zone)

Number positions required: 2 (Two)

 

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:

• BA or BSC in Rural Development, Development Studies, Agricultural Economics, Economics, Accounting, Management and related social fields of studies.

Required Professional Experience:

• 3 – 5 Years of experience in food assistance / food programs, and development related fields.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications  

• Strong knowledge and working understanding on Emergency Food resource management;
• Experience and knowledge of USAID/BHA funded emergency food assistance projects, Red Cross code of Conduct, SPHERE Standard and HAP standard;
• Comprehensive experience on USAID/BHA funded food program interventions (knowledge of WFP & WV commodity management policy) is mandatory
• Technical knowledge & skill advantageous particularly on LMMS, CCTS, JAM, CTP, environmental compliance, emergency safety & security;
• Good understanding of humanitarian standards
• Good knowledge of local context
• INGO experience
• Ability to work in high tension and high security risk situations
• Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment

 

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work.

Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

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Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only.

 

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