MEAL Officer

Job Description

Title: MEAL Officer

Company Name: World Vision Bangladesh Rohingya Crisis Response (WV BRCR)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master Degree in Social Science/Statistics/Economics/Development Studies /Agricultural Science/ or relevant subjects from reputed university

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 8 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Fresh Food Corners/Market Linkage project aims to continue to strengthen and localize fresh food supply chain through the development of a unique value-based market system, by linking WFP-contracted retailers to producers in the Cox’s Bazar district. The hereby proposed project intervention aims to:
∎ 1. Improve dietary diversity amongst the most vulnerable refugee households via direct access to fresh food items including eggs, live fish and chicken.
∎ 2. Improve market linkages between refugees and host communities
∎ The project MEAL officer will carry out retail market price monitoring on fresh food commodities (inside & outside camp market) on weekly basis and prepare report and submit to the project management for informed decision making. The project MEAL officer will be responsible for all others relevant project data collection, analysis and reporting.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Develop and implement the M&E plan and mobile technology-based MEAL system for the project.
∎ Provide leadership in planning & implementing the MEAL system making it an essential management tool allowing the project team to assess progress against benchmark;
∎ Carry out retail and wholesale market price monitoring on fresh food commodities (inside & outside camp market) on weekly basis
∎ Prepare and analysis on monthly product mapping of each Aggregation Center and share it accordingly
∎ Collect and finalize the daily transaction report and share & upload the excel system web database
∎ Take responsibility for coordination and leadership for monitoring and evaluation of the project through ensuring regular and effective use of data in decision-making initiatives from the daily learning.
∎ Oversee and execute a utilization –focused approach to M&E collecting performance indicators to support on-going decision-making, strategic project modification and understanding of the project’s impact on target populations.
∎ Facilitate collection, aggregation and analysis of routine monitoring data and provide feed-back for improvement.
∎ Lead the over-all M & E capacity building for project staff.
∎ Establish project based Monitoring System and follow up
∎ Provide feedback to project staff.
∎ Facilitating and implementing the M & E system (to facilitate on- going monitoring)
∎ Data analysis, storage & reporting
∎ M & E capacity building
∎ Lead the key learning workshops

Additional Requirements:
∎ Advance understanding of MEAL System
∎ Understanding and interpreting results framework, M&E plan, ITT
∎ Knowledge of indicators, strategies and tools to identify project progresses and bottlenecks to achieve cross-cutting objectives, including gender and environment
∎ Understanding the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics, understanding the concept of participatory monitoring, approaches to impact evaluation, and planning and use of mixed methods
∎ Familiarity with environmental indicators and initial environmental assessments
∎ Knowledge and skills on problem statement, cause and effect relationship, formation of problem and objective tree, designing and conduction needs assessments, PLA tools & its application and empirical research
∎ Identifying performance indicators and tools to inform managers/ program staff about the progress towards project objectives and encouraging management to integrate them into the project design.
∎ Sampling for qualitative studies and quantitative surveys
∎ Data quality management for all data collection activities
∎ Qualitative techniques for monitoring:
∎ Quantitative techniques for data collection
∎ Data analysis
∎ M&E capacity building
∎ Evaluation design
∎ Techniques for presenting information
∎ Knowledge of modern research and analysis methodologies
∎ Advanced proficiency in Excel and preferably use of electronic data collection applications (ODK Collect, Kobo Toolbox, Field Task, Formhub, etc.)
∎ Proficiency using one of the common statistical analysis software package (Stata, SPSS, SAS)
∎ Outstanding written and oral communications skills
∎ Experience In developing M & E system and leading M & E team at least for 3 year
∎ Supervising and Managing skills with influencing capability
∎ Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative research
∎ Experience in electronic data capture (use of tablets/phones for data collection) or systems.
∎ Experience in data collection / fieldwork collecting agricultural, nutrition and anthropometric data
∎ Experience in building evaluation capacity of team members/ counterparts and sub-grantee staff members
∎ Managing multiple deadlines

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Medical allowance, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Festival Bonus: 1

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 21 Apr 2022

Company Information:
∎ 18 Apr 2022
∎ World Vision Bangladesh Rohingya Crisis Response (WV BRCR)
∎ Address : Abedin Tower (2nd floor), 35 Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Banani, Dhaka - 1213, P.O. Box: 9071 Hotel Bay Marina, (1st Floor) Plot# 61, Block # B, PWD Residential Area, 4700 Cox's Bazar
∎ Web : http://www.wvi.org/bangladesh

Category: NGO/Development

: World Vision is committed to first do no harm to children or adult beneficiaries, to respect the rights of all beneficiaries, and to uphold the best interests of children as a primary consideration in all actions and decisions; accordingly all the recruits will go through specific checks and compliance procedures in accordance to its Child and Adult Safeguarding Policy. World Vision Bangladesh has zero tolerance towards incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. World Vision Bangladesh as Child Safe Organization discourages anyone to apply with prior record of conviction related with child neglect, abuse and exploitation.Any personal persuasion will result in disqualification.Please don't send hard copy of CV.Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview.Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.