MEAL Officer

Job Description

Title: MEAL Officer

Company Name: Concern Worldwide

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar (Ukhia)

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• 3 to 4 years

Master’s Degree, preferably in statistics, social science, Nutrition or development studies

• 3 to 4 years

• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in MEAL system coordination/implementation and management in a humanitarian context, preferably with solid MEAL experience in Health & Nutrition, Food Security, LSDS, Market System Development, etc.

• Excellent knowledge of information technology systems and proficient in the use of Kobo and CommCare data collection tools

• Skilled in quantitative and qualitative data analysis using appropriate software i.e. Stata and/or SPSS and ATLAS.ti

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills

• Problem-solving and decision making

• Report writing, evidence-based documentation

• Strong understanding of research methodologies and the nature of evidence which will influence key decision-makers in the area

• Competent in qualitative and quantitative research and statistical analysis, including the use of statistical analysis software such as SPSS, MS Access, or digital Programming

• Competent in database management, including Power BI

• Experience with and understanding of Digital Data Gathering (DDG) systems

Job Purpose:

The MEAL Officer will ensure the establishment and implementation of an effective and efficient system to monitor the progress, impacts and successes of project activities and performance at all levels. Under the direction of the MEAL Advisor, the MEAL Officer will work with the Programmes, Monitoring/Evaluation and Operations teams, as well as other relevant internal and external stakeholders, to ensure Concern Worldwide programmes maintain high standards of accountability to our beneficiaries in line with Concern Worldwide and international humanitarian standards. The MEAL Officer will ensure the establishment and implementation of an effective and efficient system to monitor progress, impacts and successes of project activities and performance at all levels. This position is responsible for the quality of the MEAL work, ensuring that it captures the impact, outcomes, outputs and activities of the project and to ensure MIS support is adequately provided to the project on information database, best practices, tools, and processes. MEAL Officer ensures all programs and projects have suitable information management systems, and regularly reviews, maintains, and updates the Program Indicator Dashboard (PID) and other dashboards into the systems. This position will also be responsible for designing and implementing information management system that will ensure information necessary for updating the overall MEAL /MIS system is in place.

Main duties & responsibilities:

• To ensure adequate support is provided to planning and implementation of the Management Information system functions of this project; including leading on beneficiary information collection and protection, accountability to beneficiaries, availability and use of appropriate reporting tools in the field, and reporting against the project indicators, as per the agreement with the donor.

• Support adaptation of activity work plans and implementation according to the project design

• Plan, develop and implement beneficiaries database, reporting tools and templates and the information management system for the project

• Manage and Implement MIS System and Provide training on MIS system to the project team as needed

• Perform data quality checks to ensure data integrity and reliability, and track assessments, reviews and evaluations, including through data collection, data entry and data analysis

• Support in developing the monitoring and evaluation and learning plans, and lead the various surveys, study, formative research and system required for the project

• Review and address the needs of project team related to information management, data processing and utilization

• Coordinate programme staff’s routine activity and output/outcome monitoring data collection

• Regularly analyse MEAL data and share with MEAL Advisor and feed back to programme team, project colleagues immediately on issues that need immediate attention

• Analysing and compiling data from project areas to measure the progress and impact of projects’ activities (including dada management, analysis and documentation) and provide feedback to the project colleagues on overall progress towards results and alignment.

• Regular visit projects area to strengthen the MEAL element of the project and support the MEAL Advisor use of findings

• Assist MEAL Advisor in donor reporting and other tasks required for the project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning

• Support colleagues to ensure achievements of the project are identified, promoted and shared both within programme and also within Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh

• Ensure a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective learning and sharing across the organisation

• Any other tasks as specified by the MEAL Advisor

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Salary:

• As per Organization compensation policy and structure

Standard benefits as per organizational policy:

• Festival allowance (02), Baisakhi allowance, provident fund, Gratuity, Group Life and Hospitalisation Insurance coverages, OPD coverage, Mobile ceiling and other admissible benefits as per organisational policy.