MEAL Officer
Street Child, Nigeria
Job Description
Position: MEAL Officer
No. of positions: 4
Reports To: MEAL Manager
Duty Station: Maiduguri, Borno (including frequent field visits)
Contract Term: 1-year fixed term with possibility of extension
Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5:15pm, Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm
Gross Salary: NGN 588,790.78 monthly
Position Summary:
Street Child is looking for a dedicated MEAL Officer for our programme across the BAY States (Borno Adamawa and Yoba) of Nigeria. Our planned programme will include emergency education interventions in collaboration with the Education in Emergencies Working Group, such as building temporary learning centers, training education facilitators in delivery of the curriculum and trauma counselling, and providing teaching and learning materials.
Street Child is also integrating activities relating to child protection to provide care and safety to children with protection concerns and support their caregivers with income generating activities.
Under the guidance of MEAL Team Lead, the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer will be responsible for monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning for all projects ensuring quality evidence on the results and outcomes of assistance is provided for reporting and decision making. The MEAL officer will be responsible designing and implementing MEAL activities and ensure project beneficiary databases and indicators tracking tables are up to date. The role will also ensure program data and other protection data is accurately and ethically collected, stored, analyzed amp; shared in strict adherence to SC’s data protection policy. The MEAL officer will work in close collaboration with the MEAL Manager, Project Managers, Country program team and civil society organizations.
Job Description:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Ensure full compliance with SCN Minimum Monitoring Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Standards in all projects implemented.
- Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for all organization's partnerships and projects, as well as for funding proposals
- Facilitate design of SMART objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during annual work-planning process
- Ensure the alignment of Mamp;E activities with program goals
- Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of Mamp;E activities
- Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions
- Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements
- Analyze data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes
- Generate indicator reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed
- Create and integrate graphics in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way
- Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submitting to ensure superior quality and professionalism
- Coordinate responses to requests for information
- Contribute to developing and reporting of project reviews, assessments, surveys, and other analytic or evaluation processes and products
- Ensure a unified approach to partner self-assessment and programmatic close-out reporting
- Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned; and champion the scaling up best practices
- Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing Mamp;E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting; provide training as needed
- Cultivate and strengthen relationships with local partner organization
Requirement, Experience and Knowledge:
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, Information Technology, or Computer Science is preferred
- Proven ICT skills, especially in the development of MIS software using database software.
- Experience in data analysis and data visualization with SPSS/Stata/SAS/MaxQDA and tableau/PowerBI.
- Experience in software development (preferably full stack) will be an added advantage.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working in the field of monitoring and evaluation
- Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating Mamp;E systems from project initiation to close out.
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