MEAL Manager

MEAL manager

JOB DETAILS

LOCATION: Beirut                                      CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed term- 3 months

JOB FAMILY: Programme                         ONE OXFAM GRADE: C2

DEPARTMENT: Humanitarian                  TEAM: Emergency Response

SALARY:  as per scale                                HOURS: 40

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

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

JOB PURPOSE: The MEAL Manager will lead the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) efforts of the Emergency Response, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and timely data, effective program monitoring, and continuous learning and improvement. This role requires a proactive individual capable of designing and implementing MEAL frameworks, tools, and methodologies that align with organizational standards and donor requirements. The MEAL Manager will also supervise the MEAL team of the Response, fostering a culture of accountability and supporting evidence-based decision-making within the response.

JOB REPORTS TO                                        Response Lead

ROLES REPORTING TO THIS JOB              Accountability Officer, MEAL officer/assistant

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY                         N/A

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE                             Lebanon

KEY STAKEHOLDERS                                   Response Lead, MEAL team, Response Area teams (North, Beirut Mount Lebanon, Bekaa), local partners

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

MEAL Approach and Planning:

• Develop and implement a MEAL framework tailored to the response, ensuring it aligns with organizational and donor MEAL requirements.
• Coordinate the development of MEAL plans, tools, and systems to track program outputs, outcomes, and impact.
• Work closely with program teams to integrate MEAL activities into program implementation, ensuring that MEAL efforts support and enhance the quality and impact of the Response.

Monitoring and Data Collection:

• Oversee the design and implementation of data collection tools and methodologies, including surveys, focus group discussions, and other data-gathering methods.
• Ensure the timely and accurate collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to program activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact.

Evaluation and Learning:

• Lead evaluations, including baseline, midline, and endline assessments, as well as post-distribution monitoring.
• Facilitate lessons-learned sessions and ensure findings and recommendations are documented and used to inform program adaptations and to improve effectiveness.

Accountability to Affection Population:

• Ensure that the accountability and feedback mechanisms are in place.
• Collaborate with the accountability team to analyze feedback data and implement necessary actions to address community concerns and to close the feedback loop.

Team Management and Capacity Building:

• Supervise and support the MEAL team, ensuring they are equipped with the skills, tools, and resources needed to carry out their roles effectively.
• Build the capacity of MEAL staff through training, and hands-on support in areas such as data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Provide technical guidance and capacity-building support to program teams on MEAL concepts, tools, and best practices.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Produce timely and high-quality MEAL reports.
• Ensure that data is managed securely, maintaining confidentiality, and adhering to the data protection standards.
• Document best practices and lessons learned for reporting and knowledge-sharing purposes.

Coordination:

• Serve as the primary MEAL focal point for the Response, coordinating closely with the response lead, program teams, and other departments.
• Participate in external coordination forums as needed, representing the organization’s MEAL function in the Response.
• Liaise with the partners to ensure compliance with the MEAL requirements.

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

• Self-Awareness
• Mutual accountability
• Relationship building

In addition:

Education: Master’s degree Social Sciences, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in MEAL roles, with at least 2 years in a managerial or supervisory capacity within humanitarian or development settings.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Demonstrated expertise in MEAL methodologies, including both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
• Proven experience designing MEAL frameworks, logframes, and indicator tracking systems.
• Strong knowledge of Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) principles and feedback mechanisms.
• Proficiency in data analysis software (e.g., SPSS) and familiarity with mobile data collection tools.
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills.

Key Competencies:

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Effective team management skills.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and ethical data management practices.

Languages: Arabic and English

DESIRABLE

• Proven experience of working with partners
• Proven experience in capacity strengthening and conducting trainings on 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.