MEAL officer

Brief description of mission or/and project for which the staff is required:

ARFADA company for Development and Consultancy (www.arfada.org) is a research company founded in Turkey of a group of professional consultants with various and intergraded disciplines , ARFADA company is one of the specialized consultancy companies ,a place of outstanding experience in the field of development and financial and management consulting.

Key Responsibilities

The MEAL officer will be responsible for implementing the monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) system of ARFADA Company.

Together with Project Managers, she/he prepares the MEAL sections of project proposals. At the start of each project, she/he completes the MEAL planning tools in order to ensure that the project fulfills its MEAL responsibilities towards communities and donors.

She/he provides monitoring data collection tools to the project staff, supports them to conduct accurate data collection, gathers and safely stores the data that they collect, analyses it, produces reports and facilitates meetings with project staff to enable them to use this evidence to continuously improve project implementation.

She/he facilitates internal or external evaluations of projects as needed.

Specific tasks include:

1)Implementation of M&E Plans

· The MEAL officer is responsible for overseeing data collection for different types of monitoring. She/he informs the project staff about when they need to conduct monitoring activities (e.g. workshop observations, or baseline/endline activities). If external enumerators are used, she/he trains the enumerators to understand the questionnaire clearly, and on how to conduct the interview, by demonstrating and practicing in pairs.

· Once monitoring data have been collected, the MEAL officer reviews the data and clarifies any inconsistencies with the staff who collected it.

· She/he is responsible for conducting data analysis (e.g. of baseline or pre-/post-test or workshop observation checklists).

· She/he prepares Terms of Reference for External Evaluations of projects, in consultation with the Project Managers.

· She/he will supports mid-term and final evaluation processes, including assessing the methodology and commenting the draft report before finalization.

· She/he will supports with collecting the project’s lessons learned.

2) Assessments:

· To inform the design of new project proposals, the MEAL officer may oversee Needs Assessments (these use the same data collection methods as monitoring (key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and sometimes household surveys). She/he conducts data analysis and prepares the Assessment Report.

Requirements:

· At least 2 years of professional experience,

·BA degree in M&E, humanitarian aid, or other related subjects.

· Good inter-personal and coordination skills

· Experience in survey design, data collection, management, analysis, and use, in humanitarian or development settings, including using software such as ODK, Magpie, or equivalent.

· Willingness to live and work in a volatile environment with limited access to the field locations

· Ability to work independently in a challenging context is a must

· Candidate must be flexible, adaptable, and positive

· Familiar with the multicultural environment;

Languages

· Required: Excellent written and spoken English

· Preferred: Turkish, Arabic

IT & Equipment

· Experience in applying statistics in humanitarian or development settings, including using software such as Power BI, Excel, SPSS, STATA or EPI info.