Action Against Hunger Senior Meal Officer Jobs in Uganda

Action Against Hunger Senior Meal Officer Jobs in Uganda

Description

The Senior MEAL Officer will build field level internal MEAL capacity by: (a) supporting our partners to strengthen their MEAL capacity; (b) securing adequate technology to effectively capture and communicate evidence of impact; and (c) Ensuring that the donor’s MEAL programmatic compliance issues are adequately met and are operating in line with the Organizational MEAL minimum standards, and positively contributing to the organizational-wide MEAL strategy and learning ambitions.

This position will contribute towards strengthening Action Against Hunger Uganda’s brand and thought leadership through effective networking with donors, peer-organizations, government, civil society, and the private sector – as well as – publication of our results to influence donor investment decisions and innovative programming within the industry.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Objective 1: Set up and implement a robust MEAL System.

Contextualizes MEAL standards and builds an integrated system that enables us to efficiently monitor the progress and outcomes of all Action Against Hunger supported projects at the field office level.

Works with sector technical specialists to standardize output, outcome, context and learning indicators across all programs and sectors.

Leads the process of developing/adapting and digitalizing data collection tools which are used by our staff and partners to continuously monitor program implementation and impact.

Builds the capacity of staff and partners to “own and execute” monitoring of their projects.

Develops/adapts and digitalizes reporting tools which enable us to effectively report progress and impact to donors, government and other stakeholders.

Develops and implements a robust quality assurance framework (including routine data quality assessments) which preserves the integrity of our program operations and impact.

Act as a donor focal point for MEAL components of Programmes/Projects at the field office.

Objective 2: Coordinate Research and Evaluative efforts (Including baselines, Midterm Reviews, End-lines, Post distribution monitoring, Market surveys etc.)

Lead and contribute (as appropriate) to analysis, evaluation, and research for data-driven evidence generation and use in the area of responsibility.

Develops an informative Research Plan and coordinate all baselines and evaluations (including drafting terms of reference; recruiting suitable consultants who will deliver high-quality MEAL services on our behalf that represent good value for money, and managing consultancies which support evaluations).

Ensure research findings are validated and disseminated to stakeholders and management response and action plans generated to inform and guide project implementation (Including ensuring that evaluation findings are applied to strengthen project designs and outcome benchmarks and targets).

Maintains partnerships with academic institutions and reputable journals and ensures that key evaluation findings are published to strengthen our thought leadership.

Support utilization of results for better planning and decision making; translate MEAL findings into organizational learning; plan and implement learning events/workshops and design appropriate learning products.

Objective 3: Contributes toward fundraising efforts.

Conducts context analyses which form the basis for designing new programs

Contributes towards developing solicited and unsolicited project concept papers and proposals.

Ensure resources for MEAL are appropriately budgeted in proposals at the field office, including by providing guidance on minimum staffing and resources required for the implementation of high-quality MEAL activities.

Ensures that all program designs include robust MEAL plans and budgets

Promotes digitalization of program MEAL processes

Develops and operationalizes “essential tracking tools”

to enable effective tracking of contractual obligations and deliverables across all programs.

Leads the process of ongoing context analysis and uses the information generated therefrom to improve the quality of program designs, implementation and M&E.

Continuously analyzes information which is generated by the MEAL system and uses different innovative products and platforms to effectively communicate evidence of impact.

Objective 4: Establish an accountability system (feedback and complaints handling mechanism)

Identify, plan for, implement, and strengthen different mechanisms for community engagement and feedback in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning.

Coordinate the design and implementation of accountability systems for Action Against Hunger projects working closely with the program team and technical specialist.

Build the capacity of Action Against Hunger field office staff and Implementing Partners’ staff to plan and implement effective accountability systems for the existing programs and projects.

Design and develop core processes and standard operating procedures for the feedback, reporting, and complaints mechanism.

Act as the organizational focal point on Core Humanitarian Standards, ensuring local compliance and reviews across all standards.

Ensure complaints are correctly and timely entered into the CRM Database and beneficiaries are communicated on the status of their complaints/feedback. Ensure verification of complaints registered & timely resolution of the complaints & closure of the feedback loop.

Plan and conduct quarterly accountability surveys for complaints satisfaction assessment.

Develop accountability framework with clearly defined CRM indicators and ensure they are routinely updated on monthly basis.

Requirements

MUST have Masters’ degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Business Statistics or any development field.

At least 6-7 years’ management and/or field level MEAL leadership experience in a both emergency and development contexts, preferably with solid experience in more than one of the Action Against Hunger priority sectors: Food security, livelihood & Resilience; Health and Nutrition, WASH and Advocacy.

Solid experience in setting up MEAL systems (including design, digitalization and operationalization).

Experience conducting project evaluations, including using different survey methodologies such as cluster sampling and LQAS.

Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mind-sets.

Extensive understanding of MEAL standards used by key donors (i.e., USAID, SIDA, DFID, WFP, EU, UN, etc.)

Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner

Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies

Excellent analytical, team management and communication skills

Excellent knowledge of digital data collection and accountability systems.

Excellent advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills using SPSS and/or Stata as well as Nvivo/Atlas.ti software, coupled with knowledge of mobile data collection tools such as Kobo Collect, ODK, CommCare, ONA HMIS etc.

How to Apply

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