MEAL Coordinator

Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women, and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation.

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social, and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities.

WE WORK IN LEBANON AGAINST COVID-19

• Focusing on Syrian refugee population and Lebanese host communities,

• mobilization committees,

• isolation centers,

• municipalities and service providers.

• Conducting training for health personnel.

• Distributing disinfection and dignity kits.

• Installing latrines for people with specific needs in Aarsal.

• Carrying out channel cleaning to ensure proper drainage. Distributing water through tanker trucks.

The MEAL Coordinator will be responsible to:

• Coordinate and Supervise the MEAL Unit teams in the Bases;
• Produce actionable research and learning to improve ACF programming in country and within the international network, including working with the Advocacy department
• Strengthen the MEAL culture in the mission through capacity building (intra and inter-department) and exchange with other missions and HQ
• Support the roll out of ACF accountability framework and enlarged feedback mechanisms for external stakeholders;
• Support the follow up of the Mission Strategy framework, ensuring standardization of indicators with ACF international strategy

Objective 1: Coordinate and Supervise the MEAL Unit teams in the Bases (20%)

• Quality control and validation of all assessment, monitoring and evaluation tools to be used by the unit, as (but not limited to): KAP surveys, Baseline Studies, market assessments, focus group discussions
• Follow up and update the MEAL strategy
• Define and update SOPs to systematize the MEAL functions and capitalize the experience at mission level
• Quality control and validation of all MEAL activities (MEAL plans, quantitative and qualitative assessment tools)
• Quality control and validation of all relevant reports and lessons learnt documents, providing sector guidance and relevance and gap analysis

Objective 2 : Produce actionable research and learning to improve ACF programming in country and within the international network, including working with the Advocacy department (30%)

• Conduct systematic review of ACF processes to produce mission-level lessons learned
• Conduct in-depth evaluations of innovative ACF programming
• Contribute to Annual Learning Review and lead yearly learning week
• Work with Advocacy and Technical Coordinators to define key research questions and lead in evaluation design
• Produce reports for external sharing
• Produce relevant reports and lessons learnt documents, providing sector guidance and relevance and gap analysis
• Lead gender analysis under supervision of Protection Coordinator and Advisor

Objective 3: Strengthen the MEAL culture in the mission through capacity building (intra and inter-department) and exchange with other missions and HQ (20%)

• Build capacities of the MEAL Unit with systematic mentoring and trainings on
• Tool development, data collection and quality control, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and reporting
• Build the MEAL capacities of other departments, including at coordination
• Liaise with MEAL regional office and HQ to share tools and practices

Objective 4: Support the follow up of the Mission Strategy framework, ensuring standardization of indicators with ACF international strategy (5%)

• Work with Country Director to develop mission-level indicators
• Support in annual strategic workshops
• Ensure harmonization and measurement of indicators aligned with ACF international strategy

Objective 5: Support the roll out of ACF accountability framework and enlarged feedback mechanisms for external stakeholders; (15%)

• Lead the launch of enlarged feedback and complaints mechanisms including roles and responsibilities for collecting and managing feedback and complaints
• Develop efforts to engage stakeholders into project design, monitoring and evaluation
• Lead the ACF-LB Ethic’s Committee
• Prepare quarterly and annual reports for submission to the Country Director and
• HQ Ethics committee

Objective 6: Security (5%)

• Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
• Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan

Objective 7: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger (5%)

• Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities.
• Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.
• Support gender mainstreaming throughout all MEAL activities

Requirements:

• University degree on a field related (MEAL)

• Extensive experience on project cycle management, research, data collection and management, quantitative/qualitative analysis and English reporting.

• At least 2 years experience in senior MEAL position with postgraduate degree or 4 years experience in senior MEAL position with bachelor’s degree. Experience within NGO an asset.

• Knowledge in project cycle management .

• Experience in Protection and gender mainstreaming would be an asset.

Action Against Hunger – Lebanon seeks to promote gender equality and is committed to empowering women to participate effectively in their communities, we strongly encourage women to apply.

We Strongly encourage people with disabilities to apply.

ACF has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse (SEA).