MEAL Officer Vacancy at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Position Title: MEAL Officer.

Job Station: Adamawa State.

INTRODUCTION :-

MEAL Officer job opportunity is available at Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for individuals who possess relevant qualification.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :-

• Design and manage Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning system through providing high-quality technical support and leading the recovery MEAL team
• Facilitate to design and conduct of MEAL surveys including PDMs, evaluation, baselines and others related to the project; in close consultation with the recovery and resilience program and MEAL staff
• Develop or adapt project specific MEAL tools and carry out field testing where necessary.
• Track donor and CRS reporting requirements and deadlines and provide MEAL information to Program Managers for drafting reports.
• Determine role of all actors involved in providing technical support to project monitoring and evaluation.
• Ensure consistency of standards, harmonization of information and input from beneficiaries and sharing of learnings.
• Maintain the project database and supervise related matters
• Facilitate to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of data for project requirements
• Verify data for completeness, correctness and consistency and follow up on any data/program quality issues.
• Lead regular MEAL field visits to collect data with the help of partners, assess the application of MEAL tools, and assist in preparation of monthly/quarterly report to donors and CRS office.
• Identify bottlenecks in the program MEAL systems, recommend appropriate solutions and ensure follow-through.
• Promote the use of Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) solutions throughout the project or digital data collection.
• Ensure regular analysis and action planning meetings to (1) compare data against project milestones, targets, and quality expectations across project sites; (2) identify issues requiring further attention; (3) define action needed and assign responsibility and deadlines- are conducted and prepare report.
• Ensure that the cross-cutting themes such as gender and protection are integrated in the partners’ and in the project’s MEAL plans and systems.
• Ensure ethical and safe collection and storage of data.

Accountability:

• Lead the development and implementation of feedback and response channels to reflect the preferences of community members and beneficiaries of the project
• Coordinate and support emergency response for accountability specific requirements including accountability needs for distributions interventions
• Facilitate to orient program staff and partners on the basic principles and practices of beneficiary accountability.
• Ensure that beneficiary feedback is adequately analyzed and documented.
• Ensure that all sensitive and not sensitive cases are channeled (including documentation) according to the framework with a high level of confidentiality and neutrality
• Coordinate closely with program manager for accountability related cases that involves gender and protection issues and documentation
• Identify, document, store and share lessons learned (this includes success story too) that have implications for refinement of best programmatic practice.
• Conduct and document end of project learning reviews and share learning with stakeholders.
• Liaise with the PM, Country Coordinator  MEAL lead and Program Manager II to carry out needs assessments and initial evaluations to inform proposal development Supervision
• Provide quality mentoring and coaching to JDPC  MEAL staff and ensure that coaching and performance plans are completed on time and with adherence to CRS talent management quality standards.
• Together with the Country MEAL Coordinator and  Program Manager II, identify capacity building needs for staff/partners.
• Support training events organized by CRS for staff and/or partners, including project reflections, learning assessments, planning and facilitation guides.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATION :-

Apply Before :-

22nd May, 2020.

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Note: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

WHO IS Catholic Relief Services (CRS)?

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 99 countries around the world. CRS programs assist persons on the basis of need, regardless of creed, ethnicity or nationality. CRS works through local church and nonchurch partners to implement its programs, therefore, strengthening and building the capacity of these partner organizations is fundamental to programs in every country in which CRS operates. CRS has worked in Nigeria for more than 25 years.