MEAL Coordinator

Country: Turkey

Organization: Al Ameen

Closing date: 6 Apr 2021

Position: MEAL Coordinator

Location: Gaziantep ,Turkey

Length of Contract: 6 Months

Vacancy: 1

Jobs Summary:

The role of MEAL Coordinator is to establish and implement systems to promote evidence-based decision-making, and program 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 the 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 the MEAL team

· Lead the training of MEAL staff

· Maintain and further develop 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 good communication with operational teams on the preparation of activities, implementation, results, and aims of the MEAL team.

· Report immediately any incident report – transmitted by the managed teams – to the line manager, while ensuring the confidentiality of it.

Providing grant proposals and reports with accurate quantitative and qualitative data

· Support in the development of proposals and reports by collecting and analyzing the 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, timelines, 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 the 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 Al-Ameen 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 efficient coordination with the other departments

· Participate in hiring process for MEAL; as needed

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

· University degree in Development Studies, Humanitarian Assistance, Public health, Statistics or related field;
· At least 4 years of professional experience in humanitarian assistance, including a minimum of 2 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 manage 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
· Experience in SPSS, KOBO, Power Bi