MEAL Officer (UmDukhun) – TGH
Job Description
| Organization | Triangle Generation Humanitaire |
| Location | UmDukhun (Central Darfur) |
| Salary | 667 USD |
| Closing Date | 31 Oct 2024 |
General responsibility:
In the course of undertaking his/her tasks, s/he represents TGH with professionalism, honesty, and commitment and attempts at all times to maintain TGH’s professional reputation through the work implemented.
The MEAL officer shall be accountable to the MEAL manager to coordinate, conduct and support all MEAL activities, including data collection in the field and execute MEAL methodologies, tools and mechanisms provided.
Duties and responsibilities:
Responsibilities and related tasks
- Monitoring
- As a member of the Monitoring Team, the MEAL Officer shall coordinate, conduct and support monitoring activities, including data collection in the field and execute MEAL methodologies, tools, and mechanisms provided.
- Undertake regular visits to field locations to support monitoring and evaluation processes and contribute to the development and rollout of accountability and FCRM processes.
- Participate in all other aspects of MEAL, for example, surveys, baselines, evaluations, joint projects monitoring, and reviews/lesson learning workshops/events.
- Produce monitoring checklists and conduct quarterly joint field process monitoring, quality assessment, and data validation, and provide feedback and recommendations for timely improvement.
- Evaluation and Learning
- Support the MEAL Manager in organizing and facilitating quarterly monitoring reports, progress reviews, and learning events.
- Supports the MEAL Manager in the design and implementation of periodic evaluation activities including baseline surveys, research, and evaluations.
- Coordinate the development of field staff competencies, including employing a learning approach to their work. Be actively involved in promoting learning through capturing/documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and utilization of data for decision-making.
- Accountability
- Together with the Project staff and with the support of the MEAL Manager, undertake accountability activities, including the development and use of information sharing materials and the establishment of complaint response mechanisms.
- This may include ensuring that complaints are logged and addressed in a professional and timely manner and that serious complaints relating to abuse, exploitation, and corruption and referred appropriately.
- Data Collection & Validation
- Ensure transparent, accurate, and timely data collection for the baseline study, real-time evaluation, and post-intervention/ post-distribution monitoring. It involves field visits to project locations; conducting training for local enumerators; applying different data collection tools.
- Ensure all data collection is done in line with good quality monitoring data, promptly, and organize data received for reporting to the MEAL Manager.
- Reporting & Analysis
- MEAL Officer ensures timely data analysis and preparation of monitoring reports according to TGH procedures and standards.
- Will support programs in collaboration with project staff in compiling data and writing reports accordingly.
- Will support programs with analysis and graphic representation of data for reporting purposes.
- Support and monitor that TGH staff respect the PSEA and Child Safeguarding guidelines.
- Ensures that TGH staff and partners respect and implement the Child Safeguarding Policy.
6. Competency Building
• Actively contributing to designing and regularly updating program MEAL guidelines and tools and ensuring that project staff have access to and can use the tools.
• Support the MEAL Coordinator in developing the capacity of local communities, partners, and staff on the project MEAL framework, data management, data analysis and results‐oriented programming, monitoring and evaluation methods and principles, and reporting systems.
• Support the MEAL Manager in training concerned program staff on the use of the MEAL system; conduct rapid assessments and trend analysis of field-based projects to monitor project activity.
• Ensures the quality of monitoring data reported by field offices through capacity building, supportive supervision, routine checking, and validation of data.
• Support MEAL Manager in analyzing existing tools and procedures and developing new tools for needs assessment, baseline survey, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Carrying out other duties assigned by direct supervisor.
7. Management Tasks
• Designs, leads, and coordinates the quality and timeliness of MEAL activities and outputs carried out by field-level MEAL staff or temporary enumerators and provides feedback to Field Coordinators, who are responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the MEAL Officer.
• Lead field level MEAL activities during project implementation tasks such as Data collection, entry, cleaning, collation, validation, etc.
8. Planning
• Implement the MEAL plan and tools for the project in consultation with the MEAL Manager and project managers.
• Develop clear plans for reporting activities including those of feedback mechanism, archiving, and filing of documents.
9. Reporting
• MEAL Officer ensures timely data analysis and preparation of monitoring reports according to TGH procedures and standards.
• Will support programs in collaboration with project officers in compiling data and writing reports accordingly.
• Will support programs with analysis and graphic representation of data for reporting purposes.
10. External Coordination
• Liaise with community members on monitoring of project implementation.
• Attend meetings when needed at the locality level.
11. Project development
• Provide all MEAL technical inputs for the project proposal requirements and indicative costs.
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required in; social sciences; systems science, economics, environmental studies, or other relevant fields with 1 to 2 years of relevant professional work experience.
- Preferably additional training courses (with certification) specific to Program Management or humanitarian intervention are strongly preferred.
- Strong computer literacy (excel, word), organizational, planning, and report writing skills.
- Experience in the INGO/NGO and humanitarian context.
Personal features expected
- Availability to travel regularly from location to another
- Aptitude to live in a difficult socio-political context
- Flexibility and ability to perform several tasks simultaneously
- Ability to gather and process different information rapidly
- Aptitude to work and live in a team
- Good interpersonal relationship
- Capacity to balance and combine autonomy and teamwork
- Leadership.
- Good communication skills with stakeholder.
I have read and understood the job description and I agree to perform the duties stated herein to the best of my ability and in compliance with TGH principles which are humanity, impartiality, and independence.
NB: Some parts of this job description could be modified according to the evolution of activities, and after the employee has been consulted.
How to apply
Those who are interested in the position are requested to submit application letter.cv,and qualifications copies through :
- HAC Labour Office
- TGH Office UMdukhun.
- e mail address, [email protected] .
Net Salary for This Position is 667 USD.
The position is NOT entitled to INPAT Status, no Accommodation, no monthly allowance.
Opening date 21 October 2024 – 31 October 2024
