Catholic Relief Services Jobs in South Sudan

Catholic Relief Services Meal Manager Jobs in South Sudan

Job Summary: The purpose of this position is to manage, strengthen, and provide strategic direction to the South Sudan Country Program's Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Policies and Procedures, ensuring cross-learning among projects, creating systems for accountability to beneficiaries, donors and other stakeholders, and to build capacity of MEAL staff. The MEAL Manager will be responsible for supervising MEAL activities, particularly during times of emergency, and assessments required for proposal development. The MEAL Manager will work closely with CRS program teams and partner staff to develop high quality monitoring systems and tools which address indicators set out in project proposals. He/she will ensure that learning from projects is systematically captured and used throughout the country program. He/she will also take learning needs into account, and develop and conduct capacity building for MEAL and program staff, with support of the Head of Programs and the Regional Technical Advisor for MEAL. The MEAL Manager is expected to have a high level of self-initiative and use critical thinking skills to identify and fill gaps in MEAL. The MEAL Manager will also work closely with the Head of Programs to ensure that the South Sudan country program complies with the agency's regional and global MEAL systems, standards and good practices. The MEAL Manager should have the ability to work sensitively and positively with programming teams and promote a learning environment -- success of the post relies on this.

Required Qualifications And Experience:

A Bachelor's degree or higher in relevant field (Development or Social Studies).

At least 7 years (at least 5 years for Master's degree holders) field experience in a relief or development environment.

Demonstrated experience in program design monitoring and evaluation or management, having served at such a position before for at least one year.

Must be conversant with both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and analysis.

Previous experience with major donor proposal M&E requirements (USAID, OFDA, EC, UN agencies preferred).

Capacity building experience in project monitoring, reporting, and evaluation.

Experience in implementing Information and Communication Technology for Development and Emergency (ICT4D/E) activities.

Computer knowledge including Word, Excel, and Power Point (additional experience with Access or SPSS is preferred).

Strong skills in written and spoken English. Required Foreign Language: N/A

Closing date:
22 Feb 2018

How to apply
For more information and job application details, see; Catholic Relief Services Meal Manager Jobs in South Sudan