Monitoring Evaluation Accountability Learning (MEAL) Coordinator

Overview

Lead project monitoring and evaluation activities ensuring timely execution and data quality.

You have:

• Bachelors in Humanities, Science, Economics or Business studies, Public Health, Development Studies, Statistics. Post graduate certifications/qualifications in M&E are an added advantage
• At least 6 years’ context experience working in Afghanistan with programming areas- Herat, Badghis, Ghor and Faryab or within Afghanistan.
• Dari or Pashto
• Experience in Water and sanitation hygiene, protection, health and nutrition, Protection and food and livelihoods security including Cash and Voucher programming
• Fluency in English and local languages
• Strong capacity building and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated experience in developing assessment tools (e.g., questionnaires, focus group discussions), data collection methods, and analysis.

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:

Monitoring and Evaluation,

• Lead/ Coordinate/ Ensure that project monitoring and evaluation activities are conducted on time- these include assessments (surveys), baselines, routine monitoring, and end lines/ evaluations
• Collaborate consortium monitoring, evaluation and accountability learning systems ensuring synchronization with existing cluster, state FCDO and internal partner MEAL requirements
• Coordinate with consortium partner MEAL leads and officers to maintain updated log frames, M&E plans and indicator tracking tables with relevant age and gender disaggregation’s.
• Oversee implementation of consistent and coherent data collection across the consortium using standardised approaches, tools, and reporting templates consistent with the donor results reporting requirements and humanitarian industry standards such as the Core Humanitarian Standards
• Provide support and technical expertise for the Operations/Programme Unit during the project design phase to ensure log frames, budgets and M&E resources and other project documentation are in place in accordance with donors and WV DME formats and standards.
• Track consortium s progress, against the results matrix and theory of change and share progress reports with the PMU.
• Review data collected/submitted by consortium partners and ensure the data meets acceptable quality reflecting the levels of activity implementation.
• Ensure that data collected reflects impact, and provides complementing evidence through change/ impact stories in collaboration with communications
• Achieve inclusive MEAL processes ensuring representative samples/ participation of all categories of groups of participants including persons living with disability.

2. Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)

• Collaborate with partners AAP leads to integrate Consortium AAP into existing platforms
• Lead routine (refresher) trainings with implementing staff/partners
• Conduct periodic satisfaction surveys, analyse, and present results to the PMU and consortium members.
• Achieve participation of all groups and gender in project monitoring and evaluation processes cognizant of differences in needs and social status.
• Achieve functional feedback and complaints response mechanisms accessible by all groups and gender.

Learning

• Organise learning events with partners and community stakeholders
• Analyse periodic monitoring reports and produce general thematic based recommendations for the consortium and specific
• Lead/ Coordinate research in collaboration strategic partners and institutions.

3.. Reporting and Administration

ate consortium partner periodic reports as per the approved M&E plan cycles- and use the reports to generate consolidated monthly, Quarterly, semi and annual reports

• Review monthly, semi and annual project progress reports to ensure quality, minimize double counting and completion of progress metrics for program outcomes and outputs
• Ensure the consortium data meets the minimum data quality and disaggregation reporting standards- age, gender, disability, location.
• Organize data review/ validation forums with stakeholders/ partners.
• Responsible for budget management of MEAL activities complying with under and over-expenditure thresholds.
• Perform other departmental duties as delegated by Project Director.

III. ICT4D and Knowledge Management

• Support partners to use existing industry acceptable technologies such as mobile data collection, GIS, on-line aggregation platforms, and digitised AAP to achieve efficient and effective data collection.
• Operationalize Consortium and PMU Dashboards tracking real-time status of partners implementation and reach
• Ensure electronic project final reports are uploaded/ saved/filed on BOX-BE, Horizon Reimaged, TEAMS or adopted platform.

IV. Capacity Building

• Orient partners and staff to MEAL officers on different consortium MEAL tools, approaches and expected deliverables
• Identify training needs and opportunities based on staff capacity building needs and officers and liaise with P&C to achieve training objectives
• Organize and facilitate trainings on the consortium M&E system and tools for capacity development of Zone M&E Coordinators, WV program staff and implementing partners

• Collaborate with the lead in recruiting M&E officers for projects and managing external M&E technical assistance in zone as is beneficial/needed

• Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.

• To be aware and prepared to implement WV Afghanistan Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs plan under the context of Afghanistan interventions.

• KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

  Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

  Bachelors in Humanities, Science, Economics or Business studies, Public Health, Development Studies, Statistics. Post graduate certifications/ qualifications in M&E are an added advantage

  Required Professional Experience

  At least 6 years’ context experience working in Afghanistan with programming areas- Herat, Badghis, Ghor and Faryab or within Afghanistan.

  Required Language(s)

  Dari or Pashto

  Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

  Within the country and outside the country

  Position’s physical requirements Resilience

  Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

• A minimum of 4 years multi-sectoral MEAL experience in sectors of: Water and sanitation hygiene, protection, health and nutrition, Protection and food and livelihoods security including Cash and Voucher programming
• Written and oral English skills. (Ability to express ideas clearly and effectively, both in spoken and written English) and previous experience in reporting for key donors- FCDO, EU, BHA, or UN agencies
• Understanding of external engagements with partners, the humanitarian architecture, and major donor agencies MEAL requirements
• Experience with diverse M&E systems designs, consolidation of different back-end data points and major donors integrating physical and remote community engagement approaches
• Exceptional understanding of business office software and applications- MS Office, Outlook, Skype, TEAMS, Zoom
• Data analytics using packages such as SPSS, Excel, GIS etc.
• Demonstrated experience in developing assessment tools (e.g., questionnaires, focus group discussions), data collection methods and analysis.
• Hands-on experience using mobile data collection platforms- from questionnaire design and coding, field-level testing, data collection, upload and analysis using KOBO collect, ODK, SMAP, ONA etc.
• Strong capacity building and facilitation skills.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, gender and social inclusion, flexible world view, emotional maturity, and resilience.
• A self-starter who can work independently under pressure and manage work tasks without direct supervision.
• Experience working with partners and ability to maintain performance expectations and healthy social interactions in psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.
• Experiencing rolling out Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible world view, emotional maturity, and physical stamina.
• Fluency in English and local languages.
• MEAL trainings- SPHERE, Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Data analytics

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

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