MEAL Coordinator

Job Description

Title: MEAL Coordinator

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ BSC and MSC in Statistics, MIS from renowned Universities.

Experience Requirements:
∎ 3 to 4 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The role of the Coordinator, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) is to support better performance and greater accountability by implementing evidence-based program/project management at the field level, in order to guide and improve performance. The MEAL Coordinator will provide the technical support to the design of methodologies and tools to ensure the availability of clear and accurate information at the program/project level. The MEAL Coordinator also plays an important role in data management and quality by designing a MEAL system which adheres to standard MEAL Guidelines, the MEAL Minimum Standards for Quality, and the guiding MEAL policies and procedures. S/he will provide technical support to the program and build capacity in the health program through strengthening learning and knowledge sharing across the wider humanitarian community. The role holder will also support in project development including preparation and management of the MEAL budget, staffing plan and project design. He will be responsible to Program Manager
∎ To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation:

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop guidance and standards methodologies for the collection and analysis of data to allow for comparison and aggregation across time and the different projects.
∎ Actively promote Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) standards within the program and amongst its beneficiaries.
∎ Design and coordinate needs assessment and situation analysis through various approaches (e.g. direct data collection, secondary sources, problem tree analysis, SWOT analysis) and ensure that needs assessment and project design are linked.
∎ Support to program and MEAL team with developing the results framework, theory of change, logframe Program Monitoring Tool (PMT), and MEAL plan including indicators for existing and new projects.
∎ Design full MEAL procedures and operating plans within the mission and develop harmonized data collection tools involving the different stakeholders (project team, partners)
∎ Ensure that accountability to affected populations (AAP) data is collected routinely throughout the project cycle, enabling evidence-based programming and corrective action.
∎ Oversee the collection and timely reporting of data and statistics from the health facilities and other centers.
∎ Implement DHIS2 where appropriate and applicable, control and manage DHIS2 and data entry requirements.
∎ Lead the regular Report process and work closely with program technical leads to aggregate project data
∎ Conduct regular site visits or when required to monitor service provision and ensure data quality.
∎ Organize the planning for project data quality audits and monitor and coordinate routine data quality audits conducted in different sites, compile results at the level of a project and develop actions plans to implement corrective measures.
∎ Coordinate data gathering and data management of population-based surveys and surveillance activities.
∎ Ensure adherence to prescribed methodologies of sampling, data collection, and data entry.
∎ Develop and use different qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection including structured/ semi structured interviews, key informant interviews, in-depth interviews, group discussions, focus group discussions and direct observations as an M&E tool.
∎ Conduct trainings on quantitative and qualitative techniques for data collection for MEAL, program and interviewers.
∎ Perform qualitative textual analysis, develop topical outlines (coding) and support the team in narrating the findings.
∎ Support in installing and configuring mobile data collection tools (OKD collect, Kobo collect, Ona collect, CommCare, etc.) on smart phones or tablets and manage data on mobile servers (Kobo form builder, Ona form builder, etc.)
∎ Support MEAL and the project/program team on conducting statistical analysis including descriptive (univariate and bivariate data analysis) and inferential analysis using statistical software.
∎ Develop spatial data from maps, documents, and other data sources.
∎ Analyze data and develop spatial data models and maps.
∎ Interpret statistical data for use in decision-making and synthesize quantitative and qualitative information for write-up/reports and decision making.
∎ Write full narrative reports (needs assessments, internal reviews, progress reports) and executive summaries.
∎ Disseminate qualitative and quantitative results using the established dashboard or system as per agreed frequency.
∎ Organize internal reviews and lessons learned workshops and present practical recommendations
∎ Ensure after-action reviews and lessons learned exercises, including data collected through
∎ Community-Based Feedback and Response Mechanism (CBFRM) and other participative forms of community engagement and feedback collection.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 3+ years of relevant and progressive experience working in related field, including minimum of 5 years of applied experience with a humanitarian organization in designing, implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation tasks in relevant sectors.
∎ Demonstrated experience in managing teams and building staff capacity within complex programming.
∎ Experience in database design and other tools for information management like DHIS2;
∎ Experience in use of qualitative and quantitative software for data analysis.
∎ Experience with mobile data collection platform
∎ Able to identify gaps in staff knowledge of MEAL concepts and skills and provide training in these topics.

Salary: Negotiable

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 19 May 2021

Company Information:
∎ 13 May 2021
∎ Friendship
∎ Address : K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ Web : www.friendship.ngo

Category: NGO/Development

: "FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding.FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature".