MEAL Coordinator – MNCH Italy NGO Careers – Save the Children International

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Job Title:           MEAL Coordinator – MNCH Italy
Organisation: Save the
Children International
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Project Manager
– Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Italy
About US:
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for
children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world and has
been implementing programs for over 90 years. Save the Children envisions a
Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection,
development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the
way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in
their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our
Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice
for and of children, and by achieving results at scale.  In Uganda, we implement programmes in six
thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance,
Education, Livelihoods & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in
development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over
36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of
Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over 240
persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them
fulfil their potential. In 2014, we reached over 143 million children through
our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around the world.
Job Summary:   The MEAL
Coordinator – MNCH Italy will be in charge of providing oversight for the
project’s MEAL function including putting in place and ensuring project uses
basic M&E tools to adequately plan, monitor and report in a timely manner
on activity implementation; outputs and outcomes; in collaboration with the
regional MEAL manager and CO MEAL advisor, and project team ensure project has
information brief; regular sharing of project updates with stakeholders; a
mechanism for collecting, tracking and responding to  feedback and complaints from project partners
and stakeholders; in collaboration with project manager , and the livelihood
specialist ensure project has and uses quality benchmarks in implementation of
project activities; together with PM and livelihood specialist identify a
learning agenda for the project; plan for learning activities and documentation
of learning experiences;. In addition provide technical support and supervision
for  data management senior officer to
ensure that project data for informing outputs and outcome progress is
collected accurately and in timely manner; support training of project team and
partners on quality data collection and management including use of data to
inform decisions on YIA priorities ; responsible for day to day management of
the project implementation plan including; updating of the plan after project
start up; ensuring availability of tools for collecting data for project
indicators; maintaining an updated project output and indicator tracker;
providing monthly updates to PM and project team of project performance against
activity and output targets; in collaboration with the PM facilitating work
planning meetings and quarterly review meetings; tracking use of activity
quality bench marks by project team; and performance of project against quality
bench marks; drafting project reports; storage of all project documentation
including project reports;  support to
and training of project team and implementation partners on project indicators
and quality data generation.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The ideal candidate for the Save the
    Children MEAL Coordinator – MNCH Italy career vacancy should hold a
    Bachelor’s degree in statistics and 
    development work 
  • Additional training and experience in  monitoring and evaluation, MIS and Open
    MRS  is an added advantage
  • At least three years’ experience in monitoring
    and evaluation work for an Adolescent Friendly  Sexual Reproductive Health (AFSRH)or
    Health related programming in Uganda (preferably with an International or
    national NGO).
  • Knowledge and use of various survey
    methods for monitoring of community development programs
  • Additional training and mentorship of
    District level partners and or stakeholders in data collection management
    and reporting
  • Effective interpersonal skills –
    networking, oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate
    via email as well as the use to Skype and other communication
    technologies.
  • Diplomacy and Confidentiality, Planning
    and organizing skills
  • Computer literacy skills: Microsoft office
    especially word, spreadsheet (Excel), Access , and management of large
    data bases including use of MYSQL
  • Past exposure and experience of working
    with local partners and District Local Government in Child Rights
    Governance, Health, Nutrition, Education, HIV/AIDS or Child Protection is
    an added advantage.
  • Excellent analytical skills and strategic
    planning abilities.
  • Ability to establish and maintain
    conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a
    team.
  • Computer literacy and excellent
    documentation skills are a must.
  • Highly developed cultural awareness and
    ability to work well in an international environment with people from
    diverse backgrounds and cultures.
  • Ability to intervene with crisis
    management or troubleshooting as necessary.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and
    communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.
  • Excellent time management and planning
    capacity.
  • Availability and willingness to work extra
    hours during times of humanitarian responses.
  • Willingness to travel and work in
    hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to send a copy of
their updated CVs with a cover letter (attached as one document) indicating
three referees, two of whom should have been direct supervisors to:
uganda.recruitment@savethechildren.org
NB:
  • Testimonials/certificates should not be
    attached to applications
  • Hand delivered applications will not be
    accepted and are therefore not considered during the shortlisting process.
Deadline: 3rd
February 2017
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