Senior MEAL Officer

Mission and Vision

Hope for Justice Vision is to live in a world free from slavery and its mission statement is bringing freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation.

Job Title: Senior MEAL Officer

Department: MEAL

Location: Country Office; Addis Ababa

Job Type: Full Time

Reporting to: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Manager

Main Purpose:

The Senior MEAL officer will assist the MEAL Manager in overall management and output of the MEAL unit through support to individual projects, platforms and assist in demonstrating progress against strategic objectives at the Country level and wide range of donors. analysis of data as well as documentation of services provided to the children is essential to measure the impact of Hope for Justice’s work in the life of vulnerable children we serve.

MEAL minimum standards

• Support Regional MEAL Officers to implement MEAL minimum standards across the portfolio.
• Design appropriate tools and methodologies for assessing project outcomes.
• Assists the development and/ or updating of monitoring and evaluation plans, guidelines, tools and systems for use by Hope for Justice
• Develop work plans according to project and donor needs.
• Undertake regular data quality checks and Assessments
• Conduct an analysis to track progress against the outcomes across grants and programs quarterly, biannually and annually
• Assist the MEAL manager in ensuring HfJ Ethiopia’s database is well designed, electronically maintained, accessible to relevant staff, and compliant with data protection policies and laws.
• Compile outcome and impact data for donors’ reports in a timely and accurate manner and analyze to track progress against Donor RFs
• Coordinate training, mentorship, and technical assistance support to the project staff and partners, in the use of the MEAL system and accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Evidence and learning

• Assists in designing and overseeing baseline, midterm and final evaluation studies of projects.
• Lead the review of gathered data, interpreting findings and providing analyses in written reports across each project and award.
• Conduct regular studies and exploration on the time series data collected in the HfJ database to shed light on project results and to aid decision-making.
• Write good quality analyses and research reports that can be published.
• Keep up to date with developments in MEAL, including best practice examples within the country and internationally, and ensure continuing professional development and learning.
• Oversee and check data collection process through repeated measure questioned baseline and end term assessments, FGD and KIIs and review data on monthly basis
• Support project and bid development, by highlighting existing evidence around good practice, by providing information on our own interventions and learning, and by supporting the development of theories of change, logical frameworks, etc.

Reporting

Play the lead role in ensuring donors and government reporting is prepared in a timely and accurate manner, and addresses performance against targets and deliverables agreed.

Provide regular project and programme updates in suitable formats and respond to specific requests for projects and programmes data.

General

• Act as a primary contact person in the absence of the MEAL manager
• Promote Hope for Justice’s core values of Honoring, Openness, Professionalism and Empowerment across the organization and with partners
• Represent the organization in different review meetings, workshops and network meetings
• Travel to HfJ’s field operation as and when required
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.
• Undertake any other duties assigned by MEAL Manager
• Key Areas
• Data is accurate, relevant, and available on a timely basis.
• Projects and awards follow MEAL minimum standards and have developed the associated documentation.
• Reports are accurate, timely, and provide the information and analysis required.
• Survivors and other stakeholders have the information on our work to be able to hold us to account

For all roles:

Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise. The employee will go through security and safeguarding training as part of their induction and will have refresher training annually. All employees will be referenced checked, and police checked prior to starting their position.

Experience and Education

Education

• First level university degree in Statistics or other Social Science-related fields
• MEAL DPro or equivalent qualification is desirable

Experience

• Understanding of and experience in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking is desirable
• At least relevant 5 years’ experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
• Experience working with vulnerable children and families

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, including excellent listening skills.
• Resolute and committed to achieving high quality standards and striving for excellence.
• Accurate and attentive to detail.
• Good analytical thinking skills.
• Flexibility to cope with unexpected situations.
• A team player and have a desire to learn and be stretched into new areas of your profession.

Technical Skills

• Good organizational skills.
• Understand basic Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning principles (ideally as they are defined within MEAL DPro).
• Training facilitation skills.
• Ability to write accurate, concise and informative reports.
• Language proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Skills in the use of digital tools, applications and being tech savy
• Safeguarding