MEAL Assistant

General Responsibilities (Overall purpose)

Reporting to his/her immediate superior, the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant provides technical and methodological support to project teams. He/she helps develop monitoring plans and adapt and roll out monitoring tools in compliance with Tdh’s approaches and methods at a project or program level.

The M&E Assistant helps collect, process and analyze data at a project/ program level, and ensures that monitoring information is effectively communicated. He/she takes part in internal and external evaluation processes.

Specific Responsibilities / Context (Tasks)

Monitoring Plans

• Helps develop project monitoring plans and adapt and roll out monitoring tools to meet project and program requirements.
• Helps design databases in coordination with the M&E Officer.
• Checks that collection tools are consistent with M&E plans

Monitoring activities

• If necessary, assist program teams by helping to collect data identified in the M&E plan.
• Supervises and/or supports collection of data for activities in the field while respecting ethical and methodological standards.
• Raise to M&E Officer (depending on the scale of the issue) of any unmet targets, contextual changes (risks and opportunities) and negative effects on beneficiaries.
• Helps manage and organize M&E information while ensuring that confidential data is protected.
• Helps recruit, train and supervise monitoring volunteers involved in data collection activities (enumerators).

Communication and reporting

• Helps in developing presentations adapted to different target audiences.
• Provides information related to beneficiaries count required for report writing.

Evaluation

• Supports the internal and external evaluation process (by providing monitoring data, logistical support and assistance in monitoring the results of evaluations).

Security and child safety

• Understands and applies security policies, the Child Safeguarding Policy and fraud prevention

policies.

Competencies

• Analytical skills
• Discipline, precision, transparency and intellectual honesty
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (in constructive negotiations) in all areas (internal and external), active listening skills
• Flexibility, openness and adaptability
• Results-oriented focus and problem-solving abilities
• Attention to details

As well as the following specific “professional” competencies:

1. Basic knowledge of project cycle management
2. Familiarity with developing and implementing basic M&E tools; such as monitoring tools in the humanitarian aid and development sector, baseline and end lines…etc.
3. Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data collection methods in the humanitarian aid and development sector
4. Command of IT tools and experience in using databases
5. Experience in Excel is a must

Requirements for the position

Entry level or minimum one year experience in the humanitarian sector

BSc/BA/BEng in Social Sciences, Computer Sciences, Statistics or related field

Working knowledge in using excel functions

Competent in English (Spoken and written)

Work location (Country + city):position based in Amman (Jordan) with regular travel to operational sites in Jordan where Tdh operates (around 50% of time).