The overall purpose of the role:
Responsible for conducting Monitoring & Evaluation activities as per the work plan. The MEAL Officer should collect and verify quantitative program information, conduct independent monitoring field visits, support with conducting surveys, interviews, and focus-group discussions, data entering, and assist with the data analysis plus beneficiaries’ registration. The MEAL Officer should have a constructive and collaborative relationship with program staff while maintaining independence and neutrality.
This position reports to: Head of Mission
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
Monitoring and evaluation:
- Carry out quantitative and qualitative data collection activities at the field level;
- Assist with data compilation, tracking, and analysis (interview/ focus group discussion (FGD) transcripts, statistical data, producing graphs or data visualization products/ data presentation, data entering);
- Support field teams in implementing monitoring activities facilitating FGD and key informant interviews, and arranging Climate change Events in coordination with the program team.
- Support program and information management staff with Indicator Performance Tracker every month. This may include periodic verification of supporting documentation;
- During monitoring activities ensure beneficiaries are treated with respect, confidentiality, and informed consent;
- Keep the supervisor informed of any safety incident that might take place;
- Assist the program team with registering beneficiaries for each activity, and keep tracking beneficiaries’ registration to ensure qualified beneficiaries.
- Provide the program team with a selected beneficiaries list after data analysis.
Reporting and information:
- Submit weekly and monthly reports to the line manager on achievements and challenges related to monitoring;
- Produce monitoring Field visit reports to ensure programs have accurate, useful, and relevant data to inform project development;
- Participate in the internal evaluation of the program;
- Assist line manager, with post-assistance monitoring and evaluation reports;
- Work with the program to compile reports for various coordination requests including CDCs and local authorities
Humanitarian Accountability:
- Support the implementation of SIF ’s complaints mechanism.
- Ensure that the activities are compliant with SIF accountability principles, including Core values of SIF, Partiality, independence, and neutrality.
- Have a good understanding of, and ability to make recommendations on the safe and secure storage of data and information;
- Have good knowledge of data collection tools such as ODK, Kobo, and Google Forms.
Learning:
- Support with conducting learning events
- Assist with updating the Lessons Learnt Tool and conducting Lessons Learnt activities during the program workshops.
- Any other tasks requested by the line manager
About you:
To be successful in this role we expect you to have a clear understanding of the MEAL processes, show attention to detail, demonstrate the best ethical and communicative qualities
Required experience and competencies:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, IT, economics, development studies, International Relations or Social Science.
- Minimum 1 year of direct experience in monitoring and evaluation;
- Strong analytical skills and an understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation, and assessment to promote evidence-based learning;
- Demonstrated ability to design, commission, and manage assessment methodologies and techniques such as focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and observations to name a few;
- Good verbal and written communication skills;
- Ability to analyze data and summarize it for a range of different audiences;
- Excellent skills in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
- Knowledge of data analysis and data collection tools (Power BI, KoBo toolbox) is a plus;
- Ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others;
- Proven ability to coordinate effective resource allocation to ensure quality programs;
- Experience of working within budget constraints;
- Experience of qualitative research techniques;
- Experience in social work, community development, non-governmental organizations, or civil society;
- Fluency in Arabic and English
Please send your Cover Letter along with updated CV to recruitment.iraq@secours-islamique.org with the email subject line “MEAL Officer” by no later than October 7th 2024 16:30 PM. Any CVs received after deadline will be disregarded automatically. Emails without correct subject line will not be accepted.
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