EUTF Consortium Senior MEAL Officer NGO Careers – Action Against Hunger USA

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Job Title:   EUTF Consortium Senior MEAL Officer    

Organisation: Action Against Hunger USA

Duty Station:   Uganda

Reports to: EUTF Consortium Coordinator

 

About US:

Action Against Hunger-USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in over 40 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security. Action Against Hunger-USA, an independent NGO, currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Cambodia and Haiti. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $92 million in programs, and approximately 2000 staff based in in the various country offices and the three Head Quarter Locations of New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi. Additional growth is anticipated.

 

Job Summary:  The Senior MEAL Officer provides overall leadership to the consortium in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning. S/he brings coherence to all MEAL activities and sets priorities in designing and overseeing the implementation of project MEAL activities in collaboration with other technical leads and the implementation team. S/he ensures that implementation meets donor programmatic compliance standards, while contributing to the organizational-wide MEAL strategy and learning ambitions.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Set up and implement a robust Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting System.

  • Ensure that the programme has a solid MEAL plan, Indicator Performance Tracking Tables (IPTT), beneficiary database updated regularly and log frame fully aligned to the project theory of change.
  • Support the Consortium Program and MEAL teams in updating the indicator tracking tables on monthly basis and provide necessary MEAL guidance regarding project performance.
  • Lead in the development of harmonized tools and guidelines for data collection, collation and reporting across the consortium for consistence and uniformity in reporting.
  • Conduct MEAL capacity assessment and develop Capacity-building plan for the consortium geared towards building the capacity of consortium staff on M&E approaches.
  • Organize field visits (including joint monitoring/EU mission visits) to monitor program activities / interventions against Quality Benchmarks/Quality Checklists and produce & share reports with program team as well as management team based on quality and accountability findings.
  • Lead in conducting data quality assessment to ensure that data reported is validated, is accurate and consistent while providing feedback as necessary to program teams.
  • Support program teams in developing quality program and donor reports using the donor reporting formats on quarterly and annual basis.
  • Ensures that AAH is represented at relevant inter-NGO and government level meetings at the field level (related to MEAL) to enhance inter-agencies best practices sharing and learning.

Coordinate Research and Evaluative efforts (including baselines, endlines, yield assessments, post distribution monitoring, market surveys etc.)

  • Work with the technical teams to develop and implement a consortium research plan for generating and sharing evidence to identify key issues for adaptive management and sharing feedback to consortium members and wider stakeholders on findings.
  • With input from sector leads, draft Terms of Reference for both internal and external evaluations in line with organizational templates and processes.
  • Work with Logistics department to recruit suitable consultants who will deliver high-quality MEAL services on our behalf that represent good value for money.
  • Ensure research findings are validated and disseminated to stakeholders and management response and action plans generated to inform and guide project implementation.
  • Maintain an online research, assessments and evaluation tracker and ensure that this is visible and used by program staff.
  • With support from communications, MEAL and programs teams document quality case studies and significant change stories to showcase project impact.
  • Recruit and train field enumerators for internal research initiatives and as well supervise external consultants to ensure value for money.

Establish an accountability system (feedback and complaints handling mechanism).

  • Work with the technical teams to develop and implement a strong accountability Framework and Complaints Handling Mechanism, consistent with Action Against Hunger Complaints handling by adopting the use of digital innovation to better leverage beneficiary feedback, information sharing, and promote transparency, dialogue and trust around devolution processes.
  • Ensure the Complaint Feedback Mechanism (CFM) are functional and accessible to beneficiaries.
  • Ensure that the agreed action plans are followed in timely manner by program team and that the feedback loop is closed.
  • Maintain a consortium complaints and feedback database while performing regular analysis of the feedback data

Lead the learning and evidence generation and ensure that it contributes to the wider organizational results measurement framework and learning agenda.

  • Work with the technical teams to develop an innovative learning strategy for the programme, providing leadership and oversight of the consortium’s learning approach.
  • Adopt the use of digital technology to facilitate innovative strategies for shared learnings across all stakeholders and ensure the key learning’s are incorporated in upcoming plans and interventions.
  • Spearhead project learning workshops, review/reflection meetings and close-out meetings in order to highlight components aimed at replicating good practices and strengthening synergies between activities, partners and other interventions in the same operational areas as the project.
  • Regularly present M&E findings to the PMU, Project Steering Committee and technical working groups as and when needed.
  • Support the project in the furtherance of its aim to have strengthened integrated programming by actively proposing ways of achieving this using M&E findings.





Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Business Statistics or Information Technology. Additional training in Data Analysis and Database Management is an added advantage. A Masters in any of the above disciplines is highly preferred.
  • Minimum of five years practical experience in M&E system development coordination/implementation in a large international non-governmental organization or other international relief/development body for large and complex grants, consortium leadership experience is an added advantage.
  • Excellent knowledge of digital data collection and accountability systems.
  • Excellent advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills using SPSS and/or Stata as well as Nvivo/Atlas.ti software, coupled with knowledge of mobile data collection tools such as Kobo Collect, ODK, CommCare, ONA HMIS etc.
  • Demonstrable track-record in data management, with the ability to manage large databases
  • Ability to analyse and disseminate complex information to a range of stakeholder audiences;
  • Strong familiarity with project frameworks [design/implementation/M&E] cycle
  • Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, adapting and innovating where necessary, and defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.
  • Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets
  • Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner
  • Highly developed cultural and political awareness and ability to work well in an international and matrix management environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills in English, with experience \working in multicultural, multi -location, values driven teams;
  • Commitment to Action Against Hunger values.
  • Experience in implementation of EU grants is an added advantage.

 

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below. All applicants must attach a cover letter and an updated CV as one document (Word or PDF).

 

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Deadline: 10th January, 2022.

 

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