Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer
Job Description
Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer
Company Name: YPSA - Young Power in Social Action
Vacancy: 01
Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Minimum Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
∎ At least 2 years
Published: 28 Jan 2024
Education:
∎ • Master's in Social Science, Development Studies or any other relevant subject
Requirements:
Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 2 years’ working experiences in a similar position.
∎ At least 03 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in youth-focused project.
∎ Written and spoken fluency in Bangla, English is essential.
∎ Ability to communicate in the local dialect (Chittagonian Dialect).
∎ Computer Knowledge is a must (MS Word, Excel, Power point. Data Collection (Kobo, Compare, ODK) Apps along with Bangla typing)
∎ Ability to prepare and lead report compilation.
∎ Strong analytical and data management skills.
∎ Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
∎ Familiarity with relevant monitoring and evaluation tools and methodologies.
∎ Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
∎ Strong analytical and problem-solving skill
∎ Experience:
∎ Additional Requirements
Responsibilities & Context:
∎ A Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer plays a crucial role to ensuring effectively and quantifiable status for smooth running of the project.
∎ Develop and implement a robust monitoring system to track project activities and outputs.
∎ Regularly collect and analyse data to assess the progress of project activities.
∎ Ensure that monitoring activities are conducted in a timely and systematic manner
∎ Update Output tracking sheets, tools for measuring the progress towards outcome for all activities of projects, validates data received from the field staff and measures progress of the planned outputs.
∎ Engages community and other stakeholders in monitoring and collects their reflections about the outcomes of the projects.
∎ Provide training and capacity-building support to project staff on monitoring and evaluation techniques.
∎ Plan and conduct evaluations of project outcomes and impact using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
∎ Collaborate with external evaluators, as needed, and manage the evaluation process.
∎ Produce evaluation reports with actionable recommendations for program improvement.
∎ Develop accountability and feedback mechanism for each project through adopting Child Friendly Feedback Mechanism (CFFM) guidelines and inter-agency tools and take necessary initiatives to enhance capacity and Flow Chart and reporting protocol in collaboration with the respective with M&E Specialist of PIB.
∎ Conduct the post distribution monitoring.
∎ Ensure that accountability mechanisms are integrated into project activities.
∎ Facilitate and respond to feedback from beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
∎ Facilitate learning sessions and reflection workshops for project staff.
∎ Promote a culture of continuous learning within the organization.
∎ Document and share lessons learned from project implementation.
∎ Ensure a monitoring and evaluation system is developed to include indicators, tools, and methods of data collection and analysis as well as frequency of data collection.
∎ Generate summary statistics, and rapid and initial analysis and findings from Programme databases, M&E datasets and/or other sources of data to support data requests from Programme.
∎ Carry out quality checks on Program and MEAL-related databases (including beneficiary databases, delivery of assistance databases, complaints trackers and reporting figures) of own organization.
∎ Record findings of discrepancies or issues in a data quality log, and coordinate with relevant teams to identify and carry out appropriate plan of action/follow-up
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme's goals on safeguarding implementation.
∎ Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.Safeguarding
∎ Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations, and programmes to anyone that encounters our work.
∎ Report all safeguarding incidents they see, hear, hear about, or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism.
∎ Complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices.
∎ Completing mandatory training courses relating to our safeguarding policy framework and comply with HR vetting procedures.
∎ Reporting and responding to safeguarding incidents reported to them by anyone connected with our work, using our internal reporting mechanism.
∎ Supporting staff to embed safeguarding measures in their role.
∎ Job Location: Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazila under Cox's Bazar.
∎ YPSA (Young Power in Social Action)
∎ Major Roles and Responsibilities:·
∎ Monitoring:
∎ Evaluation:
∎ Accountability:
∎ Learning:·
∎ Additional Responsibilities:·
∎ Responsibilities:·
Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Monthly Consolidated Salary: BDT 68,250.00
∎ T/A, Mobile bill
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf, Ukhia)
Apply Procedure:
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Company Information:
∎ YPSA - Young Power in Social Action
∎ House # F 10 (P), Road # 13, Block # B Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong - 4212
∎ Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), an organization in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC) since 2013, is a voluntary non-profit organization for sustainable development registered with the different departments of the People`s Republic of Bangladesh including NGO Affairs Bureau contributing to national goals for making a difference in the lives of the population since its establishment in 1985. YPSA, a fleet of professional staff specializes in the six thematic areas of Health; Education; Human rights and Governance; Economic Empowerment; Environment and Climate change; and Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Response. At present YPSA`s direct program interventions reach the Greater Chittagong Division including Chittagong Hill Tracts and part of the Dhaka and Sylhet division.
Address::
∎ House # F 10 (P), Road # 13, Block # B Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong - 4212
∎ Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), an organization in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC) since 2013, is a voluntary non-profit organization for sustainable development registered with the different departments of the People`s Republic of Bangladesh including NGO Affairs Bureau contributing to national goals for making a difference in the lives of the population since its establishment in 1985. YPSA, a fleet of professional staff specializes in the six thematic areas of Health; Education; Human rights and Governance; Economic Empowerment; Environment and Climate change; and Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Response. At present YPSA`s direct program interventions reach the Greater Chittagong Division including Chittagong Hill Tracts and part of the Dhaka and Sylhet division.
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Application Deadline: 1 Feb 2024
Category: NGO/Development
