Turkey: MEAL coordinator

Role Purpose

The role of MEAL coordinator is to establish and implement systems to promote evidence-based
decision-making, and programme and project performance; support and strengthen the capacity of
MEAL staff; promote program accountability and learning; provide advice on strategic objectives
by supporting service delivery to beneficiaries through effective and innovative communications;
ensure compliance with donor requirements and standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Developing MEAL framework

• In close collaboration with Program Manager, lead the MEAL system and process development, by creating
• framework and procedures according to the projects’ strategies and log frames.
• Define the detailed responsibilities of MEAL team
• Lead the training of MEAL staff
• Maintain and further development qualitative and quantitative practices and processes.
• Put in place systems and mechanisms for collecting data to monitor the development of defined indicators
• under the comprehensive reporting framework;
• Propose any relevant adjustments for the set-up of the MEAL Department to the line manager;

Implementing the Monitoring & Evaluation plan per project

• Contribute in defining methodologies and tools for assessment, monitoring and evaluation exercises for each
• project, including data collection and analysis tools and processes, in coherence with mission policies;
• Keep track of all projects and grants monitoring and evaluation schedules and implementation of monitoring and evaluation procedures;
• Ensuring quality, accuracy and confidentiality of data and the serious follow up of available guidelines.
• Ensuring a good communication with operational teams on preparation of activities, implementation, results and aims of MEAL team.
• Report immediately any incident report – transmitted by the managed teams – to the line manager, while ensuring the confidentiality of it.
• Conduct field visits on a frequent basis when security permits to community project sites to monitor community / stakeholder participation, project activities, provide technical assistance and troubleshoot.

Providing grant proposals and reports with accurate quantitative and qualitative data

• Support in the development of proposals and reports by collecting and analyzing quality and accurate data and by keeping an organized archive system for MEAL related activities;
• Participate in the preparation of results frameworks, performance monitoring and evaluation plans for new
• projects including the harmonization/standardization of indicators, data collection methodologies, time lines and measurement tools;
• Send regular reports on the MEAL team activities to line manager;
• Produce timely MEAL reports including narrative, statistics, data analysis and proper recommendations
• according to the MEAL work plan reporting schedule;
• Contribute to other necessary reports upon request from line manager

Capacity Development and Institutional Knowledge Building

• Organize regular lessons learned sessions with the implementation teams by presenting the results of evaluations and formulating recommendations/lessons learned;
• Participate in strengthening MEAL capacities through gathering of experience and sharing of best practices.
• Develop evaluation tools and sampling methods and protocols
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative surveys of program impact to assure the project goals are being met to
• enable SEMA to constantly improve the quality of program implementation.
• Support the deployments of renewed MEAL policy in the implementation area.

Team management

• Follow up his/her team according to the HR policy missions’ Standards (daily management, performance
• evaluation, leaves management, etc.);
• Ensure performance evaluation of his / her team, and set up and follow up individual or team objectives
• Train his/her team and be proactive regarding internal or external training opportunities;
• Ensure a good communication, coordination and information level of each member of the team through regular
• coordination meetings (or other if needed)
• Ensure an efficient coordination with the other departments Participate in hiring process for MEAL; as per needed
• Any other duties that may be assigned by line manager

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

• University degree in Development Studies, Humanitarian Assistance, Public health, Statistics or related field;
• At least 5 years of professional experience in humanitarian assistance, including a minimum of 3 years in MEAL;
• Very good analytical and writing skills
• A critical mind, and ability to ask questions and analyze situations.
• Strong understanding of project cycle management
• Good management capacities and team leadership spirit
• Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills;
• Strong communication and reporting skills;
• Ability to solve problems in the field with staff, local committees and beneficiaries.
• Ability to manager remote teams.
• Good command of spoken and written English and Arabic.
• Excellent command of excel and other database applications and ability to use software for database design
• Experience in programming Microsoft Excel and Access Databases

Desirable

• Past work with international donor funded programs preferred.
• Prior experience in SPSS, KOBO or equivalent systems

please send the personal information in the application https://goo.gl/O7hsNB

and send your CV with cover letter to the HR Department in Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA) to this

E-Mail: hr.cv.tr@sema-sy.org with the job code “MEAL GS9“ in the subject line

Please Note that any CV sent with no Job Code in the subject line will not be submitted in the HR Serve