MEAL Coordinator (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning)

Yoga and Sport With Refugees (YSR) was born in October 2017 on the island of Lesvos, Greece, in response to the massive need for healthy safe spaces, the sense of community and a place to work on mental and physical health. In September 2020, we expanded to Athens. Through cooperation with Habibi.Works and KOIZ Centre for Postcolonial Studies, we started Habibi and Sport with Refugees in Ioannina in 2021 and last summer we started our project in Paris. Every day we offer more than 10 different sports activities to approximately 200 people. Our model is unique with over 70 of our past and current coaches coming from a refugee background.

We are looking for a new coordinator to be able to commit for at least 6 months but preferably more, to work on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL). The position is preferably to be filled οn Lesvos. Also, this position is ideal to gain crucial knowledge and experience for working in the NGO sector.

The MEAL team in YSR works continuously to expand and upgrade our data collection, data analysis, and data visualization. Our activity includes a close collaboration with the fundraising department, the communication department and on-the-ground teams. The coordinator will be responsible for the effective operation of the current M&E system, addressing the specific needs of our four projects, conducting the evaluation of our work, and defining the learnings from it. The coordinator will lead a team of interns, facilitate meetings, and take ownership of the project.

If you are a people person, well-organised and if you love working with numbers, then you are just who we are looking for!

What we offer:

• The opportunity to operate in a sustainable project and to create sustainable social change!
• The opportunity to review and implement a strong M&E system
• A position where you support each other through sports
• Working individually and with the YSR team
• Develop your leadership and people’s management skills
• Work in a culturally diverse environment
• A learning environment where we aim at empowering people. This comes with personalised training opportunities and training with all the coordinators

Compensation:

• The salary is €950 gross, in accordance with Greek legislation.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining and improving our quantitative data collection databases.
• Responsible for our qualitative data collection
• Responsible for reviewing and updating our M&E indicators
• Provide technical and methodological support to programs for the implementation of M&E across our 4 locations
• Prepare and facilitate weekly M&E, and Finance and Fundraising meetings
• Supervise M&E interns
• Responsible for Impact assessment and weekly/monthly reporting.
• Conducting surveys, focus groups or interviews
• Responsible for our feedback and complaint mechanism
• Take additional responsibilities to be defined with the team

Who we are looking for:

• Someone with
  • strong team playing skills
  • ability to work independently
  • flexibility and adaptation to unexpected situation skills
  • passion for sports,
  • organisational skills
  • creative solutions
• Desired experience
  • M&E experience (finances is a plus)
  • team/ people management and training/capacity-building.
  • Software and/or data processing (especially in Excel)
  • strong analytical abilities
  • background in the humanitarian field
• Languages: Fluent English necessary
• 6 months minimum commitment, but ideally more

Start date: August 19th preferably

YSR strongly encourages qualified people with a refugee background to apply. We seek to ensure that everyone is given equal opportunities.

Safeguarding, Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in our organisation, and you will be required to understand, train and comply to our safeguarding policy and supporting documents.