Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer (MEAL Officer)

Job Description

Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer (MEAL Officer)

Company Name: FH Association (Cox's Bazar)

Vacancy: 01

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor degree in any discipline
∎ Bachelor’s Degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or related field or equivalent experience required. Master’s degree preferred.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ *Please note: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. These may change at any time with or without notice.
∎ Key Result #1: Monitoring &Evaluation:
∎ Working with the Technical Advisor, develop robust M&E processes, methodologies and tools for planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning in line with FH/JRRP policies and standards
∎ Monitor implementation of integrated systems, processes and tools ensuring quality and consistency in M&E data collection and reporting
∎ Produce a comprehensive M&E plan for the program and conduct regular progress monitoring of the plan
∎ Provide technical expertise in household survey sampling design, questionnaire development, enumerator training and implementation, including programming needed for electronic data collection
∎ Contribute to the development of project proposals and reports, including assessments, log frames, M&E plans, baseline and end line survey reports.
∎ Monitor, analyze and summarize data collected from surveys and project activities to ensure quality and accurate reporting.
∎ Conduct data quality assessments & data audits to ensure that the collected data is accurate and maintains the integrity of the project
∎ Conduct beneficiary interviews, focus group discussions, and quality improvement verification visits to the project sites as required by the program
∎ Compile project monitoring data into internal and external reports reflecting activity indicators to guide management decision making, provide accountability to beneficiaries and stakeholders, share learning and demonstrate impact
∎ Key Result #2: Accountability:
∎ Contribute to the establishment of an effective beneficiary feedback mechanism.
∎ Maintain a record of beneficiary complaints and actions taken settling such complaints.
∎ Ensure beneficiary accountability mechanisms are integrated into country strategies, program design, and monitoring and evaluation systems
∎ Ensure data storage and systems for sharing are set up to protect confidentiality of personal beneficiary data and adhere to generally accepted principles for data protection.
∎ Contribute to the safeguarding of program participants and personnel through promoting an environment of awareness and upholding the code of conduct provisions of FH/JRRP Protection from Sexual Exploitation & Abuse, and Child & Vulnerable Adult protection policies and sexual harassment policies
∎ Key Result #3: Learning:
∎ Develop systematic approaches that support documenting how change is happening within programs and making knowledge accessible and usable at local, country office and global level to inform programming
∎ Support and organize collection of success stories, case studies, best practices and photos of activities for knowledge management and dissemination.
∎ Maintain a filing system for all MEAL activities, reports and analyses in hard and soft copies, including backups
∎ Build capacity of program staff in relevant M&E topics.
∎ Monitor and foster sustainability of program’s results.
∎ Key Result #4: Collaboration and Coordination
∎ Collaborates with FH/JRRP Program’s and support teams for data sharing, reporting, and quality improvement
∎ Coordinate with M&E counterparts in other organizations and information management working groups
∎ Collaborate with local Ministry of Health (MoH) for ethics approvals for all surveys
∎ Other duties as assigned
∎ Key Result #5: Staff management, development
∎ Supervise country office HIS Lead and indirectly HIS officers.
∎ Identify staffing levels/roles needed to support JRRP MEAL activities and participate in recruitment to fill those positions
∎ Key Result #5: Quality Management
∎ Actively participate in the enforcement of Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Control (QC) and Quality Improvement (QI) measures for all field program interventions.
∎ Support the capturing and documenting of best practices and success stories for learning, reference and dissemination.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Certificate in monitoring and evaluation
∎ Demonstrated experience in data processing and management of large scale projects.
∎ Demonstrated experience of statistical packages and /or data analysis software e.g. SPSS, EPI Ingo, SMART, STAT
∎ Direct experience in a position of monitoring and evaluation or Research studies is highly desired.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 28 Jun 2021

Company Information:
∎ 21 Jun 2021
∎ FH Association (Cox's Bazar)
∎ Address : The White House, Opposite to Police Lines, Between Bus Station and Dolphin Circle.Koltatoli, Cox's Bazar.
∎ Web : https://www.fh.org
∎ Business : In 1972, Food for the Hungry (FH) began working in Bangladesh by distributing rice to the poor. Since then, FH has focused efforts on community development including livelihoods, micro-lending, health, education, and disaster response resilience. Over the last 40 years, FH has partnered with Bangladeshi leaders and impoverished communities to create better living conditions.

Category: NGO/Development

: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we find suitable candidates.