IRC MEAL Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia

IRC MEAL Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia

About the Role

This an implementation specific strategic role in IRC Nigeria that works closely with the Senior MEAL Coordinator, Program teams, Senior MEAL Managers, and country support program teams to improve program quality, providing technical leadership, coordination and strategic support to program design, planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and partnership commitments in line with Strategy 100 impact goal and data ambition.

Core responsibilities includes ensuring IRC Nigeria and its partners has a strong MEAL system in place, implemented as intended and reported to support program technical coordinators, managers and implementing partners to deliver desired outcomes and impacts. The position is open to nationals of Nigeria.

Support to Sound MEAL System Design, Development and Promotion

Lead in creating a holistic MEAL system across area offices.

Champion design, access, and use of data by leaders and partners for shared learning and evidence-based decision-making.

Establish and drive common strategies and approaches to the country’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning processes,

Shape and implement MEAL systems and approaches that meet IRC standards and practices, that meet project and program needs, enable accountability to clients, partners, and donors, and foster program learning.

Support the creation of measurable program quality benchmarks, tracking tools and dashboards.

Work with country leadership and program team to promote a program quality culture and evidence-based decision making in programming within IRC and its partners.

Support and actively participate in program design and development.

Ensure that MEAL resources are included in proposal development and work creatively to secure funding from diverse sources, to ensure that MEAL is integrated in emergency and development programmed in a sustainable way.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Technical oversight

Support technical MEAL leadership to IRCs effort in meeting its internal and external accountability commitments through the implementation of sound accountability, client feedback and response mechanisms.

Support Senior MEAL Managers inn developing and operationalizing logical frameworks, MEAL plans, data collection tools, processes for data management, clients feedback approaches, quality checks and audits, and data visualization.

Produce high-quality data, analysis, reports, presentations, and dashboard of key findings that foster learning and decision-making and share in key meetings such as project cycle meetings and strategic senior management team meetings.

Provide technical oversight and coordination and support for surveys, assessments, and other discrete learning activities, and building related staff and partners competencies through

Provide supports to technical leads and technical coordinators to develop the TORs for needs assessments and surveys.

Providing MEAL inputs into decisions across all areas of project management

Lead and support in development and implementation of country knowledge and learnings agenda.

Acting as an enabler by supporting program coordinators to achieve desired outcomes/impact while learning from evidence.

Strengthen program designs, outcome harvesting and planning

Provide support, guidance, and work closely with technical leads, grants teams and partners to ensure that project design in proposals is logically sound, beneficiary focused and contextually appropriate, based on learning from previous projects and technical best practice, and includes a Theory of Change and SMART log frame (with IRC core indicators and enabling assessment of project progress, quality, outcomes, and if relevant impact).

Support technicals leads in ensuring that detailed and feasible project specific monitoring plans are developed that: i) provide an indicator matrix, ii) map MEAL roles and responsibilities of project and support staff, iii) consider ethical and safe collection and storage of data, iv) consider data quality audits, v) consider storing, protecting, and sharing project documents, and vi) consider the end of project learning review.

Support and guide technical leads to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods will be used to ensure their adequacy and appropriateness.

Responsible for providing consistent, supportive supervision to strengthen staff performance as necessary to meet monitoring objectives and ensure data quality.

Responsible for conducting and coordinating data quality audits of projects and programs to

identify and resolve systemic problems affecting data quality and documenting and storing findings in project files on Box.

Internal and External Reporting

Support in ensuring that IRC delivers all MEAL reporting requirements in a timely manner.

Track all external reporting requirements ensuring that MEAL data and information sections are updated on time.

Ensure analysis to illustrate IRCs impact and assessment findings are produced, including evidence of good practice and replicable programmes, and that they are communicated at appropriate events.

Receive and analyze CFM reports ensuring that action plans are included and followed up and that ESMT reviews reports regularly.

Provide response to both internal and external MEAL specific requests ensuring internal policies and communication procedures are adhered to.

Partnership, Internal Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development

Responsible for providing consistent, supportive supervision as necessary to meet monitoring objectives and ensure data quality.

Support the partner and internal MEAL Managers and technical Managers teams to track progress on action points related to implementation and MEAL activities.

Support in recruitment, onboarding, performance management and development of MEAL staffing assigned to the department.

Manage partner and internal MEAL Managers, ensuring that workplans and deliverables are clearly documented.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum four (7) years of national MEAL technical leadership experience within the development or humanitarian technical, at least 4 of which are at management level. Experience with humanitarian emergency response is a plus

Leadership experience and proven technical skills in setting up quality M&E/MEAL system that leads to evidence-based decision-making for multi-technicalial and multi-donor funded programs.

Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and non-formal methods together with strong presentation and reporting skills;

Strong management and social skills and proven track record to work with diverse groups of people in a multicultural environment.

Self-motivated with excellent organization, planning, and analytical skills - able to work without close supervision, including prioritizing work and multi-tasking.

Proficiency and experience with mobile data collection such as Kobo, CommCare, ODK Collect are crucial as well as proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SPSS, SATA or other similar software.

Knowledge of Tableau, PowerBi or GIS software are additional assets.

A strong understanding of accountability and proven ability to build Client Feedback Systems is a distinct advantage.

Proven technical skills in monitoring and evaluation, including experience with multi-technicalial and multi-donor funded programs and experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.

Proven abilities in developing monitoring plans, data collection, information management, use of databases, and analysis and performance monitoring, inclusive for implementing partners.

Demonstrated ability to train and build capacity of staff, implementing partners and others.

Comprehensive knowledge of humanitarian accountability principles and their translation into practice.

Strong planning, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Excellent analytical, presentation, and reporting skills;

Proven ability to work creatively, innovatively, and effectively with limited direct supervision and taking initiatives.

Strong commitment to IRC’s mission, purpose, and values

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; IRC MEAL Coordinator Jobs in Ethiopia

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