Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Specialist
Job Description
Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Specialist
Company Name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in Development Economics, Agribusiness, International Development, Development Studies, Statistics, Business Administration, or related discipline with expertise in research methods is desired.
Experience Requirements:
∎ 4 to 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT: FABGD
∎ Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
∎ Grade Level: SC8
∎ Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)
∎ Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension)
∎ Primary Location: Bangladesh-Coxs Bazaar
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Coordinate the MEAL Team and monitor their performance in the field and office.
∎ Contribute to developing monthly and annual work plans that focus on the project goal, objectives, and targeted results.
∎ Assist in developing and formulating a comprehensive MEAL plan with defined indicators and a reporting schedule aligned with project and programme requirements;
∎ Conduct quantitative and qualitative assessments and support the baseline and programme performance studies focusing on RIMA tools and ensure data quality, capture intended changes (outcomes), and figure out processes that have been effective and/or non-effective with the underlying causes;
∎ Work closely with the partners' staff responsible for project management and monitoring data collection, and analysis, and contribute to timely updating of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) database;
∎ Review the Letters of Agreement and ensure coherence with Project documents, Logical Frameworks, and the alignment of reporting schedules and requirements;
∎ Make frequent field visits to conduct household-level interviews, agricultural inputs distribution monitoring, post-distribution monitoring, beneficiary contact monitoring, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews; and verify whether the field data/reports match with the Management Information Systems (MIS) database and activities in the field;
∎ Maintenance as well as securing beneficiary registration database.
∎ Develop/review projects' log frames, SMART indicators and targets, project implementation plan, monitoring and evaluation plans, data collection methodology, and relevant tools for monitoring and reporting of programme activities and results;
∎ Provide support to MIS and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialists on outcome-based result measurement surveys and in developing GIS maps to measure and visualize productivity, income, profitability, food security, and resilience;
∎ Identify innovation and good practices in the communities and assist in extracting learning through intensive field context analysis and feeding information into the learning agenda;
∎ Draft sub-district-wise quarterly and annual process monitoring reports (as required) for the management identifying problems, causes of potential bottlenecks in implementation and providing specific recommendations based on observed challenges and opportunities;
∎ Work closely with the MIS and GIS Specialists to provide necessary inputs on database development, preparation of GIS maps,
∎ data transfer/uploading from remote devices (tablets) to the project server as well as providing support to the partners' staff in operating the database system;
∎ Liaise with project management and provide recommendations to the Emergency and Resilience Programme Coordinator to enhance efficacy and efficiency insofar as utilization of project/program resources designated to MEAL activities;
∎ Develop Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms and key messages and information, education, and communications materials for projects' activities and training and ensure integration and mainstreaming of AAP and cross-cutting themes, such as gender equity and protection, in the MEAL designs;
∎ Define the Impact Evaluation (IE) Framework with the programme staff and the RIMA team
∎ Establish and operationalize community-level feedback mechanisms that receive, process and respond to feedback in alignment with FAO policies and procedures.
∎ In coordination with the programme team, organize and facilitate training courses on quality assurance, results-based monitoring systems, and AAP issues for skill development and capacity building of the partners' staff in meeting the organizational standard and donor's compliance;
∎ Provide coaching/mentoring support in data literacy and other technical areas (e.g., data analysis, data collection) to Programme staff;
∎ Build upon FAO experiences within and beyond the Programme, to improve consistency, quality, and practicality of monitoring and evaluation strategies and tools;
∎ Perform other related duties as assigned by the Management.
Additional Requirements:
∎ 4-5 years of relevant experience in Monitoring related program implementation, Data Management, and Project Cycle Management
∎ National of Bangladesh
∎ Working knowledge (level C) of English and Bengali
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 24 Jun 2023
Company Information:
∎ 13 Jun 2023
∎ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
∎ Business : UN Organization
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 24th Jun 2023
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