Job Description

Title: MEAL Officer

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

Vacancy: 2

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's Degree in Statistics/Mathematics/ Social Science or in any relevant business disciplines from a reputed university.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Promotion of Market Linkages in Local Community 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
∎ Responsible for overall implementation of MEAL Approaches including but not limited to – development of M&E Framework, M&E plan, M&E tools and guidelines and execution of participatory monitoring and evaluation approaches, farmers registration in Farm2Go App, monitor FF transactions and other project activities, ensure weekly market monitoring and data entry in KoBoTool, analyses data and prepare reports in a timely fashion.

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.
∎ Support development of M&E framework closely aligned to the project guideline.
∎ Develop participatory M & E tools and ensure these are in practice.
∎ The project’s Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT) regularly updated.
∎ Technical program routine monitoring coordinated to support annual donor reporting.
∎ Evaluation/ surveys conducted to measures key outcome indicators.
∎ Case study examples collected and shared with different stakeholders.
∎ Database to capture routine monitoring and processing functions installed and maintained.
∎ Project participant register maintained.
∎ Data aggregation products and analysis produced to meet requirements for monthly, quarterly & project life progress reports.
∎ No. of training/orientation provided to the field staff.
∎ Field staff has capable to use tools, and gadgets for data collection.
∎ Organizational learning, strengths and challenges are properly documented,
∎ Shared information in monthly management meeting.
∎ Improved capacity through self-learning and consultation with team members
∎ An understanding of World Vision’s core values in regard to work and relationship

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 30 to 40 years
∎ Advance understanding of MEAL System
∎ Understanding and interpreting results framework, M&E plan, IPTT
∎ 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, Form hub, etc.)
∎ Proficiency using one of the common statistical analysis software packages (Stata, SPSS, SAS)
∎ Outstanding written and oral communications skills
∎ 8-year experience in the humanitarian and development fields with at least 5 years of experience in the M & E including impact evaluations
∎ Minimum 4 - 5 years proven knowledge/experience in designing, planning and implementation of MEAL interventions, assessment, data collection applying mobile application, and reports preparation.
∎ 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
∎ 60% field visit

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: 7 Jun 2023

Company Information:
∎ 31 May 2023
∎ World Vision Bangladesh Rohingya Crisis Response (WV BRCR)
∎ Address : Sayeman Heritage Residence, Second Floor, Block - B, Sayeman Road, Baharchora, Cox's Bazar -4700
∎ 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.