CORUS International MEAL Officer Jobs in Malawi

CORUS International MEAL Officer Jobs in Malawi

About Us

CGA Technologies is an international consultancy firm, registered in the UK, with associated companies in South Sudan, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Malawi; and also staff based in Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

Since 2011, we have worked to deliver national-scale, sustainable change in the fragile and/or poor countries where we operate; we specialise in doing that by increasing participation and achievement in education, through at-scale cash support to citizens, and by leveraging each to make the other more effective.

In October 2019, Charlie Goldsmith Associates (CGA) became part of the Corus International multi-sector family, led by Lutheran World Relief-IMA World Health, and we later rebranded as CGA Technologies.

The Role

The Government of Malawi with funding from World Bank will be embarking on the implementation of a project called Malawi Education Reform Programme (MERP). The expected implementation period of the project is 4 years.

The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to improve learning environments for students in lower primary in government schools. CGA, under a consortium led by Save the Children, is recruiting an M&E Officer, in anticipation of a successful proposal to support this work.

The consortium will support in the implementation of the Learner Mentor sub-component of Component 3 of the Programme. The objective of the Learner Mentor sub-component is to support the development, piloting and scaling-up of an adapted Learner Mentor intervention.

We are seeking an experienced individual who has excellent organizational and technical skills, a team player, dedicated, hardworking, innovative, highly motivated and able to work in a high-pressure environment requiring multi-tasking abilities.

Reporting to: Project Director

Key Areas of Accountability:

Technical Leadership

Lead on strategic planning on MEAL with partner M&E staff to achieve significant programme impact.

Leadership in the management of a database relating to Learner Mentors in the two phases of the project and generating information for management decision making.

Support strategic and operational decision-making for all MEAL matters with a high degree of judgement based on specific problem solving experience and a range of external and internal factors.

Analyse and communicate all MEAL information to consortium partners & other relevant stakeholders especially Ministry of Education, Ministry of Local Government and the donor-World Bank.

Coordinate collection and management of data and other key programme information from partners and other stakeholders for use by the programme

Enhance the capacity of partners and staff on monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning systems through mentoring and formal training.

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design and implementation)

Work with the Team Leader to draft the project’s reporting format for the approval of the MoE

Ensure that the consortium delivers on all internal and external MEAL requirements in a timely manner and with high quality information.

Strengthen MEAL systems and processes to assure achievement and progress towards project objectives and outcomes.

Ensure that there is continuous verification of Learner Mentors in the two phases of the project to minimise inclusion and exclusion errors.

Ensure that there is continuous verification of the availability and proper use of the Learner Mentor phones throughout the lifespan of the project.

Assist in the development of outcome and learning/programme monitoring indicators for logframe and other purposes.

Ensure that data collection and management methodologies used at field level are standardised, enabling the specific learning outcome gains for girls to be captured and analysed.

Ensure that there is an agreed MEAL framework for the project and that it is being used to demonstrate project impacts by partners.

Work with partners to ensure that they are collecting information on all agreed programme indicators and reporting on these agreed indicators

Support programme teams and partners with project assessments/evaluation planning, ensuring

that minimum criteria for quality evaluations and assessments are integrated into design and implementation.

Ensure that all assessment/evaluation reports meet the GPE-MERP quality criteria, and promote the integration of recommendations and lessons learnt in project planning and future programming.

Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.

Contribute to organisational learning on Learner Mentorship ensuring that learning from the project is shared across the Country Office and our partners.

Networking and External Engagement

Ensure that lessons learnt from the project are regularly shared with DEC Members to improve practice

Behaviours (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

Holds their team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in accordance with the context, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own professional development and encourages their team to do the same

Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
future orientated, thinks strategically and on a national and even regional scale.

Collaboration:

Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, technical advisors and working groups, Members and external partners and supporters

Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

Contribute to development of and innovative solutions

Integrity:

Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Demography or related field

Experience and Skills

At least 5 years’ experience of working in the field of gender.

Minimum of 3 years in delivering MEAL functions e.g. designing, maintenance of databases and development of tools

Experience working with government is an added advantage.

Key Competencies (Indicative / Key Competencies)

Technical competencies:

Drives Quality Education Programming: Trains and mentors others on the application of relevant education sector standards

Understanding of the importance of gender sensitive/transformative and inclusive education pedagogies and policies in education programming and learning outcome: Engages in safe schools and inclusive education approaches

Able to build integrated multi sectoral education programmes: Builds the capacity of others to design and implement integrated education development and advocacy programmes

Able to link local to national level advocacy efforts, supporting localisation of change and influencing national policy development

Generic Competencies

Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities

Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children

Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery

Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers.


How to Apply

Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter and CV to colleaguesandfriends@cgatechnologies.org.uk by 9am BST Monday 14 November 2022.

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