Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer

Tasks and responsibilities

1. Monitoring and Evaluation

• Under the supervision of the MEAL Manager, develop a reliable and consistent set of output/outcome indicators for livelihoods and food security projects, develop logical framework and MEAL plan including the identification of measurement methodologies, data collection plans and tools.
• Introduce MEAL tools to project teams and technically support them for their continued implementation, including assisting them with data entries when required and elaborating training for data collectors and enumerators (KOBO Toolbox, etc.).
• In collaboration with the Information System (IS) team, develop a harmonized system of data management and ensure data received is accurate and reliable for integration into the database.
• Produce reliable quantitative and qualitative data for internal and external (Activity-Info, IDS, etc.) reporting and ensure timely compilation for monthly reporting or when needed.
• Conduct field monitoring visits to monitor the implementation of the activities, ensure cohesion of data collected on field and develop recommendations to projects.
• Draft template for focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), baseline, end line surveys, sampling and generate the related digital collection tool accordingly.
• Draft mid- and final- project evaluations and generating quality analysis of the data collected including trends, impacts, achievements, and gaps using statistical tools and business analytics services (SPSS, Power BI, Excel).

1. Accountability

• Under each assigned project, ensure beneficiaries feedback and complaints are effectively tracked and addressed, including developing of the project’s complaints, feedback, and response mechanism (CFRM).
• Assist with the roll-out and implementation of the project’s Complaints Feedback and Response Mechanism (CFRM). Support by actively seeking and responding to feedback from all members of targeted communities and other stakeholders as defined by the CFRM.
• Support the projects to ensure that projects are carried out with participation from all targeted groups and that information is shared with them effectively.
• Ensure that all programmes are implemented in accordance with international standards (such as but not limited to Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS).

1. Learning

• Participate in the development of project proposals, including drafting literature review, context analysis, developing assessment surveys, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
• Collaborate with MEAL Manager and project teams to collect and document and share lessons learnt, to conduct after action reviews and learning events for activities adaptation.