JOB TITLE: MEAL Manager, Yobe State
WORK UNIT: MEAL, PDQ
LOCATION: Yobe state, Nigeria
JOB GRADE: 3
DURATION: Fixed Term
CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The MEAL Manager leads the development and implementation of MEAL plans as well as assessment, evaluation and research framework for all projects being implemented in Yobe state. S/he will lead in the generation of evidence, maintaining accountability standards and ensuring effective monitoring, evaluation and learning of the projects across all sectors. This includes the collection, processing, analysis and sharing monitoring data to support course corrective decision-making for response interventions and improve programme quality; as well as evaluate the outcomes of programmes being implemented in the state. It also includes ensuring that the organisation documents and learns from its experiences in the state
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Head of MEAL
Staff reporting to this post: MEAL Coordinator, MEAL Officers
Budget Responsibilities: None
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Oversee the MEAL state team and provide high quality MEAL technical leadership, support and capacity building to the state implementation team.
- In collaboration with the programme & technical team, develop and implement project MEAL plans, quality benchmarks, research, assessments and evaluations to support an evidence and learning agenda as well as a process for knowledge sharing between SCI, stakeholders and partners in the state
- Ensure that the state office complies with SCI MEAL processes and standards and ensure standardization of MEAL formats/reports including grant-level Indicator Performance Tracking Tables (IPTTs).
- Bring together data and findings from across projects to form a coherent basis for analysis of impact which promotes learning and strategy development.
- Develop and increase utilization of accountability approaches, such as participation, complaints and response mechanisms.
- Keep abreast of MEAL sector trends and developments, for example in remote monitoring, and adapt and promote introduction of new methodologies, technologies, innovations and best practices where applicable in the state
- Formulate key program questions that will help to advance the evidence base, and lead design of targeted evaluations (including but not restricted to baseline, midline and end line evaluations) and pieces of operations research.
- Actively contribute to the process of learning, evaluation, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme for continuous improvement of programme performance and overall outcome
Capacity Building:
- Identify learning and training opportunities for MEAL staff, stakeholders’ and partners staff in the state.
Representation, Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Represent SCI at all MEAL, HMIS and research technical working groups, partners and stakeholders’ forums in the state
- In collaboration with the project teams, feed into learning, experiences and evidence to relevant country advocacy objectives.
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Graduate degree in a relevant subject – ideally also a postgraduate degree
- Minimum of 5 years’ work experience in MEAL, especially monitoring, including in large-scale, complex emergencies generating high volumes of data where technical capacity of MEAL staff is varied and coordination between MEAL/sector teams is a challenge
- Experience of working in the North East Region of Nigeria on Humanitarian Projects
- Ability to create and implement MEAL plans and IPTTs based on logframes and other reporting requirements and support junior colleagues to do so
- Strong experience in collecting, processing, analyzing and reporting on quantitative and qualitative data and supporting other colleagues to do so – including ability to troubleshoot Kobo-related issues
- Ability to contribute to Awards reporting from a MEAL perspective in a timely and accurate manner
- Ability to manage team work plans in contexts where workload is high and priorities shift frequently
- Ability to hit the ground running and work on own initiative – but also be comfortable asking for support where needed in a timely manner
- Highly organized, with the ability to juggle multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines
- Strong team player, with the desire and ability to take initiative to pick us tasks outside official responsibilities
Desirable
Ability to speak Hausa
Date of issue: June 2021 Name: Oluwayemisi Erhunmwunse, Head of MEAL
How to apply
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