MEAL Officer

The overall purpose of the role:

Responsible for conducting Monitoring & Evaluation activities as per the work plan. The MEAL Officer should collect and verify quantitative program information, conduct independent monitoring field visits, support with conducting surveys, interviews, and focus-group discussions, data entering, and assist with the data analysis plus beneficiaries’ registration. The MEAL Officer should have a constructive and collaborative relationship with program staff while maintaining independence and neutrality.

This position reports to: Head of Mission

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Monitoring and evaluation:

• Carry out quantitative and qualitative data collection activities at the field level;
• Assist with data compilation, tracking, and analysis (interview/ focus group discussion (FGD) transcripts, statistical data, producing graphs or data visualization products/ data presentation, data entering);
• Support field teams in implementing monitoring activities facilitating FGD and key informant interviews, and arranging Climate change Events in coordination with the program team.
• Support program and information management staff with Indicator Performance Tracker every month. This may include periodic verification of supporting documentation;
• During monitoring activities ensure beneficiaries are treated with respect, confidentiality, and informed consent;
• Keep the supervisor informed of any safety incident that might take place;
• Assist the program team with registering beneficiaries for each activity, and keep tracking beneficiaries’ registration to ensure qualified beneficiaries.
• Provide the program team with a selected beneficiaries list after data analysis.

Reporting and information:

• Submit weekly and monthly reports to the line manager on achievements and challenges related to monitoring;
• Produce monitoring Field visit reports to ensure programs have accurate, useful, and relevant data to inform project development;
• Participate in the internal evaluation of the program;
• Assist line manager, with post-assistance monitoring and evaluation reports;
• Work with the program to compile reports for various coordination requests including CDCs and local authorities

Humanitarian Accountability:

• Support the implementation of SIF ’s complaints mechanism.
• Ensure that the activities are compliant with SIF accountability principles, including Core values of SIF, Partiality, independence, and neutrality.
• Have a good understanding of, and ability to make recommendations on the safe and secure storage of data and information;
• Have good knowledge of data collection tools such as ODK, Kobo, and Google Forms.

Learning:

• Support with conducting learning events
• Assist with updating the Lessons Learnt Tool and conducting Lessons Learnt activities during the program workshops.

• Any other tasks requested by the line manager

About you:

To be successful in this role we expect you to have a clear understanding of the MEAL processes, show attention to detail, demonstrate the best ethical and communicative qualities

Required experience and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, IT, economics, development studies, International Relations or Social Science.
• Minimum 1 year of direct experience in monitoring and evaluation;
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation, and assessment to promote evidence-based learning;
• Demonstrated ability to design, commission, and manage assessment methodologies and techniques such as focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and observations to name a few;
• Good verbal and written communication skills;
• Ability to analyze data and summarize it for a range of different audiences;
• Excellent skills in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Knowledge of data analysis and data collection tools (Power BI, KoBo toolbox) is a plus;
• Ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others;
• Proven ability to coordinate effective resource allocation to ensure quality programs;
• Experience of working within budget constraints;
• Experience of qualitative research techniques;
• Experience in social work, community development, non-governmental organizations, or civil society;
• Fluency in Arabic and English

Please send your Cover Letter along with updated CV to recruitment.iraq@secours-islamique.org with the email subject line “MEAL Officer” by no later than October 7^th 2024 16:30 PM. Any CVs received after deadline will be disregarded automatically. Emails without correct subject line will not be accepted.