WEAM MEAL Officer

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer

JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Beirut, with frequent travel to areas all over Lebanon

CONTRACT TYPE: 1 year, renewable

JOB FAMILY: Programmes

ONE OXFAM GRADE: D      ZONE:2

DEPARTMENT:

GLOBAL PROGRAMMES                                                                 

TEAM: Governance and Economic Justice

SALARY: tbc

HOURS: 40 (FTE)

FLEXIBLE WORKING

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.  

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE: For Oxfam in Lebanon, Governance is defined as the set of processes and approaches that are set to ensure accountability, responsiveness, participation, transparency, efficiency, effectiveness, and rule of law between different systems, structures, groups, or – even – individuals.

Governance projects focus on strengthening social and fiscal justice, accountability, participation, local leadership, and inclusiveness within and between members of the community, Local Authorities (LA), and national authorities, with no discrimination related to age, gender, nationality, religion, or socio-economic situation. To achieve this objective, diverse projects are implemented with various relevant stakeholders including local community groups, local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs), Municipalities, Union of Municipalities, local service-provision establishments (e.g. Social Development Centers (SDCs) and Water Establishments), and representatives of government ministries.

The Governance Program aims to empower marginalised women and men, particularly youth, to exercise their basic rights to influence decision-making in support of more accountable, effective governance, particularly in relation to respect for basic rights, access to services, resource management and distribution, and gender equity.

TEAM PURPOSE: Oxfam in Lebanon is increasingly working at local, national and international levels to “ensure that women and men and non-binary individuals are protected and empowered to enjoy their basic rights and access services enabling them to live in dignity within a more equitable society.” To achieve this vision, Oxfam in Lebanon implements activities under two main programmatic pillars; the Governance and Economic Justice pillar and the Humanitarian Pillar.

JOB PURPOSE: Oxfam Italia in partnership with Right to Play, SHiFT and ALEF is implementing a European Union-funded project entitled “Working for Engagement, Acceptance and Mediation: A Community-based Approach to Social Cohesion in Lebanon – WE’AM.” The project is implemented between March 2023 and December 2025 in Lebanon. WE’AM aims to leverage experiences and complementarities to build consensus and stimulate lasting social cohesion initiatives in Lebanon following three working streams: addressing drivers of tensions at the community level; disseminating gender-responsive conflict prevention and resolution tools and methods; mainstreaming community-level social cohesion into programming.

The WEAM MEAL Officer will provide technical support and design tools to the WEAM project ensuring effective, coordinated MEAL systems to drive programme quality and implementation. The MEAL Officer will support the development and implementation of a systematic approach to MEAL for WEAM project, ensuring that Oxfam and partner teams are able to effectively track outputs and outcomes and manage data effectively for reporting and learning purposes, as well as ensure programmes are in line with Oxfam minimum standards. 

team, Gender, MEAL, Protection advisors and the Oxfam Policy team towards common objectives.

JOB REPORTS TO

WEAM Consortium Coordinator

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB

none

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

N/A

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE

All over Lebanon

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

MEAL system development and implementation:

• Lead on updating of relevant MEAL frameworks, working closely with the Consortium Coordinator, Technical Coordinators and partners’ MEAL teams
• Work with the project team to implement MEAL plans, processes and tools, ensuring quality and consistency with Oxfam standards.

Programme monitoring, information management and reporting:

• Develop/improve/update tools for data collection, processing and analysis.
• Supervise enumerators working to collect data, and train them as appropriate;

• Conduct and draft reports for field visits of Project teams.

• Perform analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, draft reports presenting the results of the analysis, and share the findings in an appropriate format.
• Report to and alert the project team on regular basis regarding any anticipated project issues, risks and any emerging opportunities and threats to the project implementation related to this role.
• Ensure all MEAL-related data and files are properly organized and stored.

Accountability:

• Monitor and strengthen the implementation of the complaints and feedback mechanism for the programme through the “Your Word Counts” accountability platform.
• Accept feedback and complaints from beneficiaries and share them with field teams and track follow-up.

Capacity building for Oxfam and Partner staff:

• Work closely with partner MEAL staff or focal points and provide technical assistance for partners and programme teams to implement MEAL and reporting.
• Undertake periodic monitoring and technical support visits to partners to assess progress against agreed MEAL systems and recommend corrective actions as appropriate.
• Provide training to partners on accountability and provide support in strengthening complaints and feedback mechanisms

Evaluation, Review, and Learning:

• Share relevant MEAL findings with project teams in an appropriate format and follow-up on their implementation.
• Support evaluations through:  the coordination of field-based data collection activities, sharing of evaluation findings and recommendations with intended audiences.
• Support the implementation of evaluation recommendations at field level
• Assist the programme team and partners in documenting lessons learnt
• Collect best practices, case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.
• Organize/support field-based reviews and learning events.

Coordination and Networking:

• Delivering any other responsibility related to MEAL assigned by the line manager.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Most importantly, every individual in Oxfam needs to be able to:

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, COURAGE, SOLIDARITY and EQUALITY (read more about these here)
• Ensure you commit to our ORGANIZATIONAL ATTRIBUTES (including adhering to the Code of Conduct):

1. Be committed to our feminist principles, and to applying them in your day-to-day behaviour and your work. Be ready to keep learning, with accountability to those who experience oppression as a result of their identities, such as their gender, race/ethnicity, disability, class, or LGBTQIA identity."

2. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES

ESSENTIAL

• Humility
• Mutual accountability
• Systems Thinking

In addition:

• At least 2 years of relevant professional experience working in MEAL or an associated field.
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field from a recognised university.
• Demonstrable experience of gathering, analysing and presenting quantitative and qualitative data
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
• Proven ability to work effectively with others and demonstrate sensitivity to gender issues
• Experience with computerised systems (such as Survey CTO, Power BI or others); high degree of computer literacy particularly with Microsoft Office (Excel skills essential)

Desirable

• Good organisational and coordination skills
• Ability to work under pressure, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Detail-oriented, able to organise and manage various programme files
• Potential and flexibility of attitude to learn.
• Experience working on the development, management and/or maintenance of databases
• Practical experience using participatory approaches in MEAL

SAFER RECRUITMENT: Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us. Offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.