MEAL Officer

Job Description

Title: MEAL Officer

Company Name: AGRAJATTRA (An Organization for Integrated Social Development)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Maheshkhali, Ramu)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters degree in any discipline
∎ Master degree preferable in social science/ statistic

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Accountability, Minimum 5 years experience of monitoring evaluation

Job Context:
∎ Agrajattra is a national uplifting NGO based in Cox’s Bazar. It is working since 1998 in Bangladesh. Currently it is working diversified donor’s funded project. Among them IRC is prime donor of AGRAJATTAR and funding for child protection since 2021. Very recently AGRAJATTA has been signed an Agreement with IRC for implementing “LAST MILE EDUCATION” Project. It is mentioned able that One of the impacts of COVID-19 is that an unprecedented 1.6 billion students across the world have been out of school; however, 258 million children were already out of school before the pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 has been also found in Bangladesh to drop out the children from both primary and secondary education. Cox’s Bazar district is very leg-behind in education rather than others district of Bangladesh and dropout rate from primary education is highest compared that others district.
∎ In response to this crisis, we will implement an innovative program in Bangladesh that reaches last-mile children and parents, and caregivers, providing them with quality education solutions. Our approach to reaching these last-mile children with a quality education has three areas of focus:
∎ 1. Meet children where they are both physically and cognitively, with flexible, student-centered learning that they can access in or close to their homes.
∎ 2. Break down barriers to school entry and support children’s integration into schools once they are ready; and
∎ 3. Prepare schoolteachers to integrate children with specific needs into their classrooms and equip teachers and students for future school disruption.
∎ This project will cover both Ramu and Moheskhali upazila under Cox’s Bazar District. AGRAJATTRA and IRC have entered in a partnership to respond to ensure quality education with platform-based localized and scalable solutions for last-mile learners and caregivers in crisis-affected areas in Bangladesh.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ To roll out and manage MEAL mechanism as per commitments of to donor’s by Agrajattar;
∎ To establish, manage and strengthen Accountability to Beneficiaries which includes capacity building of partner organizations on this theme;
∎ To carry out regular field monitoring of program interventions and produce monitoring reports on the given format, conduct debrief sessions with relevant program staff and develop an agreed action plan;
∎ Ensure data inputs in regular and periodic reports and database and prepare internal and external reports quantitative and qualitative reports for IRC and necessary Stakeholders.
∎ Assist and ensure in project-specific dashboard development and regular update for the project
∎ Work with the field team and partners to ensure that data is collected and entered into databases and/or tracking sheets, and/or data platforms on a regular basis
∎ Work with project staff to provide MEAL inputs for project and program reports
∎ To establish and manage Complaint and Feedback Mechanism which facilitate beneficiaries/communities to register complaints and share feedback;
∎ To assist the project in carrying out preliminary first inquiry report in case of serious nature of complaints filed by beneficiaries/communities;
∎ To maintain complaints and feedback tracking database and do follow up on complaints to reach a resolution involving relevant project/program staff;
∎ To assist the project in identifying key compliance/quality questions and parameters capitalizing on the existing checklists and minimum standards for monitoring project performance;
∎ To assist in reviewing data bases and data tracking tools of diverse projects in order to maintain data quality for collating reliable and consistent data which meets minimum reporting requirements of donors and IRC;
∎ To assist in planning and implementation of baseline surveys, monitoring and evaluation exercises and impact assessments when needed;
∎ Conduct regular field visits and data analysis, prepare monthly monitoring reports share with management for decision making
∎ Capacity building to the staff on MEAL system establish in the field ;
∎ Others Tasks: Any others assign task related to project aspect by the management and also donor;

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 27 years
∎ • With expertise in databases, MS Office and other analysis software such as SPSS, KOBO, ONA, ODK
∎ • Ability to work in challenging environment
∎ • Good Interpersonal and Communication skills
∎ • Proficient in report writing and documentation
∎ • Analysis of qualitative and quantitative data and preparing narrative report for donor
∎ • Knowledge of the local languages in the assigned area will be an added advantage
∎ Person with disability are encouraged to apply

Salary: Tk. 54500 - 55000 (Monthly)

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ T/A, Mobile bill

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 26 Apr 2023

Company Information:
∎ 18 Apr 2023
∎ AGRAJATTRA (An Organization for Integrated Social Development)
∎ Address : Head Office : AGRAJATTRA, 126 (3rd Floor), Opposite of CTG Press Club, Jamal Khan Road, P.S: Kotwali, Chittagong Cox's bazar Office : Hoque Tower 02 (2nd Floor), Alr'r JAHAL, Main Road, Cox's bazar. Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.agrajattra.org.bd
∎ Business : AGRAJATTRA is a non-profit and non-political voluntary organization which is recognized & awarded by nationally (Best Youth award, Best SME Award) & internationally (Commonwealth Award) in dedicated to enhance women empowerment through providing hands-on skills on various trades for the young people. It came into existence on November 15, 1998 with the dedication to assist the unprivileged urban, sub-urban and rural youths of specially Women of Bangladesh in particularly RMG sectors, Shrimp ind sectors, Agra based field development, Women Empowerment, Livelihood development, DRR, Poverty Eradication, Women Leadership Development, Wash, Technical Skill development, Violence against Women & Girls Program etc.

Category: NGO/Development

: Agrajattra is currently looking for a MEAL Officer who will primarily responsible for developing, establishing and overseeing a functional MEAL system for the above mentioned project.