Short Term MEAL Officer (6 months)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. The International Rescue Committee has been working in Somalia since 2006, providing essential services to conflict and disaster affected communities. The IRC has been operational in Central Somalia (Mudug and Galgaduud regions) and Mogadishu implementing interventions in the areas of livelihood, WASH, Governance, and peacebuilding, GBV, Nutrition, education and health reaching out to more than 200,000 conflict and drought affected people.

JOB OVERVIEW:

The MEAL officer will work with EH & ERD program teams as well as local partner organizations to ensure the collection of quality M&E data for the IRC program. The MEAL officer will be responsible for supporting the project including the Baseline, midline, and end line data collections, leading 3 post distribution monitoring, analyze data to provide understandings to program teams, contribute to report writing. The MEAL officer will be the member of the project team learning and reflection processes, leading discussion of beneficiary feedbacks.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leadership and Partnership

• Develop MEAL systems for reporting and validating program using Excel and CommCare applications.
• Work closely with program team and local partners, to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting of program activities and results.
• Coordinate reporting with local partners, tracking data frequency, ensuring adherence to monitoring formats and requirement and ensuring also the reporting quality, accuracy and timely submissions.
• Develop data quality assessment plan

Technical Oversight

• • Perform spot checks on the program and partner staff on data collected and reports each month to ensure timely data flow, quality checks, and audits, and updating of data visualization dashboards in CommCare.
    • Compile progress against indicators and report back to the team according to the MEAL plan.
    • Pro-actively participate in M&E evaluations including Baseline,, midline survey and household surveys
    • Excellent analysis of monitoring data and work closely with program coordinators and managers to facilitate decision-making for real-time program adaptation.
    • Build the capacity of local partners through on-job training and support on monitoring tools, entering program data into project indicator dashboard. .

Accountability to beneficiaries

• Sanitize program, partner staff and beneficiaries on client feedback and response management.
• Conduct field visits, spot-checks, and follow up of client feedback cases to close the feedback loop.
• Participate in the recruitment and onboarding of country MEAL officers, assistants, and (if relevant) external consultants.
• Record feedback in feedback registry to prepare a monthly CRM report for program adaptation.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Position Reports to Senior MEAL officer & Technical Coordinators for WASH & ERD

Position directly supervises: None.

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: Program Coordinators/Managers/officers throughout the IRF program

External:Partner MEAL & program staff

REQUIREMENTS

MEAL officer have:

• A University degree in a relevant field (such as: statistics & data management, social science, public health, development economics, or a related subject area) – a technical degree together with additional relevant work experience may substitute for education.
• A Minimum 3 years of working experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning-related functions.
• Technical skills in setting up quality MEAL processes and data analysis that leads to learning and action.
• Proficiency and experience with mobile data collection such as Kobo, CommCare, ODK Collect is vital as well as proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SPSS, STATA or other similar software. Knowledge of Tableau, PowerBI, or GIS software tools are additional assets.
• Demonstrated analytical, systematic-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated with good organization, planning skills, including prioritizing work and multi-tasking.
• A strong understanding of accountability and proven ability to build Client Feedback Systems.
• Willingness to travel to various remote field-locations.
• Proven English Language proficiency.