MEAL Officer

Location: Colombia (under HelpAge’s Flexible Work Policy)

Department: Inclusive Humanitarian Action

Reports to: HumanitarianProject Coordinator LAC

Salary: COP 5.000.000 per month

Contract Type: Fixed term, 12 months labour contract, under Colombian Work Law regulations.

About HelpAge

HelpAge Internationals (HAI) works with partners and a diverse global network of more than 171 organizations across 90 countries, supporting millions of older people to live safe, dignified, and healthy lives. Through our partnership and collaborations, we work to ensure the inclusion of older people across society and strive to deliver a just and fair world for everyone, whatever their age. Our work is driven by our desire to deliver real impact for older people, to be inclusive, to work in partnership and to learn from our shared experience.

Our 2030 strategy Ageing in a Just World sets out how we will work together to shape the future we all share. By working together, we aim to help inspire a movement for change and through ensuring all our work promotes older people’s wellbeing, dignity, and voice, we can transform the lives of older people now and in the future.

About the Job

The job is about working closely with the IHAT Humanitarian Programme Manager LAC (HPM), network members and partner organisations, take a lead in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) actions across selected humanitarian projects and providing technical MEAL advice to the HPM LAC.

Key areas for impact/influence and responsibilities

• Develop the planning, development, coordination, and implementation of MEAL-related activities.
• Ensure the correct implementation of HelpAge activities in the field, following the guidelines for action and quality standards of both the organization and donors.
• Support the LAC Humanitarian Team on follow-up and monitoring implementation activities.
• Work closely with the technical teams of the implementing partners, to coordinate and define standards, data collection tools, standardize analysis and visualization, and manage the effective exchange and dissemination of information to all relevant stakeholders.
• Cross-cutting approaches: incorporate the holistic inclusion approach and ensure that all instruments and methodologies are sensitive to gender, disability, age, and interculturality.
• Lead and oversee the planning, coordination, and management of MEAL tools including plans, Needs Assessments, Rapid Needs Assessments (RNAs), Multi-Sector Initial Needs Assessments (MIRAs), Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM), SIT Reps, Workplans, Action Plans, and other assessments and evaluation tools implemented by HelpAge or local partners, for projects under your responsibility.
• Support Knowledge Management efforts from Programs and Projects developed.
• Collect, analyze, and organize lessons learned, best practices, and recommendations for projects under your scope of work.
• Data management, coordination, and management of M&E reports and technical Reports from HAI.
• Develop preparation and delivery of internal, monthly, mid-term and/or final reports, and other reports for humanitarian projects in the region, as required.
• Collect and store project information under HAI’s policies, procedures and tools.
• Provide support writing new concept notes and proposals for donors.
• Support creating information gathering tools in Kobo Toolbox and similar purposes technologies and training local teams for proper information gathering.
• Contribute to proposals preparation for LAC Region
• Support MEAL tasks development by local partners and INGO partners in LAC.
• Others related to the nature of this position assigned by the supervisor and relevant to the role.

Skills and Experience Required

• University degree in social sciences, political science, sociology, economy or equivalent/related degree.
• Graduate degree in Economics, Statistics and/or fields related to MEAL field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience working in international or national NGOs.
• Demonstrable experience in formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Competence in qualitative and quantitative research methods, including survey design and application, sampling strategies, and statistical analysis.
• Proven research and monitoring report writing skills.
• Ability to work with multiple actors and achieve high-quality results under limited supervision.
• Experience in evaluations of external cooperation programs, preferably.
• Fluency in Spanish language.

Skills and Abilities:

• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Proactive and resolution capacity.
• Communication and negotiation skills.
• Analytical capacity and creativity.
• Written and oral skills for writing proposals and reports.
• Proactive response capacity and ability to function in diverse areas.
• Organizational capacity, leadership, and coordination of actions.
• Valuable knowledge of the English language, at least at B1 level.
• Ideally based in Riohacha or Maicao (La Guajira – Colombia)

Equal Opportunities

HelpAge International is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, promoting and providing equal opportunities and respecting diversity in employment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

Safeguarding

Everyone has a role in creating and sustaining a safe and respectful working environment, where no one comes to any harm or is maltreated. At HelpAge we take our responsibilities very seriously and will take action against wrongdoing. We will do everything we can to ensure that we do not engage people that pose a safeguarding risk and will undertake criminal record checks as required.

Diversity & Inclusion

HelpAge International is dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all its employees/consultants while extending the culture of inclusion into our work.

We believe that our workforce should reflect the wide diversity of the communities we serve, and that diverse voices should be elevated and intentionally integrated into our work. We embrace difference and diversity of identity, experience, and thought, and actively strive for inclusive behaviors across our organization and work regardless of gender, race, disability, age, nationality, ethnic/national origin, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, marital status, pregnancy, social status, and political beliefs.