MEAL Officer

Job Description

Title: MEAL Officer

Company Name: Uttaran

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 28 years

Job Location: Khulna

Salary: Tk. 47631 (Monthly)

Experience:

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Masters

• Master’s degree in statistics, economics, or any discipline

• 3 to 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO, Development Agency

• Age At least 28 years

Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in community development, disaster management, or related fields.

• Prior experience in conducting PRAs, FGDs, and community mobilization activities.

Skills:

• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership abilities.

• Proficiency in MS Office and report writing.

• Understanding of sustainable livelihoods, risk assessment, and disaster response.

• Data collection, filtering and validation skill

• Experienced in conducting baseline, mid-term, and end-line evaluations.

• Skilled in using apps-based data collection tools such as KOBO and ODK. MS Team, Zoom, Google meet and others

Behavioural Competencies:

• Gender-sensitive and inclusive approach in community engagement.

• Ability to work in remote locations and manage multiple tasks under pressure.

Job Context

Uttaran is an NGO working in Bangladesh since 1985 to uphold rights and entitlements and to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged community people. Uttaran is a people-centered organization using a rights-based approach to alleviate poverty, diversify livelihood opportunities and empower poor communities of Bangladesh.

Uttaran invites applications for the vacant position titled- MEAL Officer for the Fisherfolk Integration for Sustainable Habitat and Natural Ecosystem Transformation (FISHNET) Project

Reports to: MEAL and safeguarding for secretariate

Employment Status: Contractual- Fixed Term Contract for 2 years

Project Area: Bagerhat and Patuakhali District

Work station: Khulna

Job Responsibilities

• As the MEAL Officer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective implementation of project activities within the Monitoring and Evaluation. Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the Project Coordinator to design, plan and execute the M&E framework of the project

• Ensuring proper preservation of project-related Monitoring and Evaluation documents, reports, publications, and other relevant materials

• Demonstrating knowledge of qualitative and quantitative M&E systems, large database management, and monitoring of access to resources, services

• Managing M&E and MIS database, including template design, data entry, cleaning, logical checks of monitoring data

• Preparing event report, monthly, quarterly, annually and other reports as per the donor and Uttaran’s requirement

• Creating success stories/case studies with photographs

• Monitoring and evaluating field level project activities

• Ensure the implementation of all activities of the project qualitatively and quantitatively

• Work with relevant committees, and working groups to implement program activities following the work plan, implementation in the schedule, and Monitoring & Evaluation plan

• Submission of weekly/monthly activity plan.

Safeguarding

• Respond in a timely manner to safeguarding concerns to ensure pupils are kept safe from harm.

• Pro-actively work with parents / carers and other agencies through joint planning and monitoring of their arrangements for the safeguarding of children.

• Report to the Safeguarding Lead on all safeguarding concerns to ensure they retain oversight of Safeguarding within the project and consortium.

• Salary: 47,631 BDT and 1 festival bonus equivalent of 1 month gross salary yearly

• As per Uttaran`s Policy and Project Design.