JOB TITLE: MEAL Team Leader
JOB LOCATION: Mubi, Adamawa
JOB DETAILS:
Responsibilities
Meal Systems Development at Base Level in Consultation with the Country Meal Coordinator:
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- Based on the project proposals, implementation plan, and donor reporting requirements, support the MEAL Coordinator in the development and implementation of a system for capturing and documenting data and relevant information on project activities, beneficiaries, outputs, outcomes, and impacts
- Ensure an effective roll-out of MEAL collection and reporting systems at the base level through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed
- Conduct training for base project staff on MEAL in line with identified capacity needs and provide ongoing mentoring support in consultation with the MEAL Coordinator.
- Work with the various project teams to ensure that all information and data is collected, documented, and collated in an accurate and timely manner
- Contribute to regular reviews of the MEAL system itself, making improvements as needed and recommended, in consultation with technical managers MEAL Coordinator, staff, and partners
- Support on the management of the RedRose platform under the MEAL coordinator supervision.
Monitoring and Reporting:
- Lead on compilation of regular monthly and quarterly base level reports using data provided by Base project teams and ensure data verification prior to use.
- Support the Head of Base and technical MEAL coordinator to ensure that planned activities are carried out in a timely fashion, cost effective, adheres to best practice and standard operating procedure.
- Provide base level project data to help with donor monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting
Research and Evaluation:
- Coordinate with the donor-contracted Evaluation Team for conducting of activities at base and community level.
- Support coordination of overall project review and evaluation activities as required. This includes working with the independent Evaluation Team to coordinate mid-term and final evaluations and supporting donor and external reviews as required
Accountability:
- Support creation of a system for ensuring that information obtained is also shared with communities, women, and other stakeholders through a regular feedback mechanism.
- Ensure beneficiary accountability mechanism is logged and addresses complaints in a timely manner. Ensure program managers are aware of delays in acting on any complaints or information requests
- Training beneficiaries, community stakeholders and program participants on DRC complaint response mechanism to promote downward accountability.
Staff Management:
- Supervise MEAL unit team at Adamawa (MEAL Assistants and Officers).
- Provide technical and programmatic leadership for MEAL Assistants and Officers and other stakeholders as deemed
- Set performance objectives and annual appraisal for MEAL unit staff.
Knowledge Management & Learning:
- In consultation with Area manager, country MEAL coordinator and technical managers, facilitate and compile case studies, change stories and lessons learned reports on a regular basis to share wider program and inform improvements in quality and delivery
- Analyze information about the base level program / projects and make recommendations for improvement.
- Ensure key base level lessons and challenges are documented and shared with staff and partners to help consolidate lessons learned for future proposal development and implementation of best practices.
- Proven knowledge of managing red rose platform.
Key Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Sciences, Humanitarian and/or Development Studies, or relevant field.
Essential:
- Training in quantitative methodologies, including database management.
- 4 years of direct experience of monitoring and evaluation related to one or more of these fields: Protection, WASH, Shelter, Food security, Livelihoods Community Liaison and Peace Building initiatives.
- Strong analytical skills and an understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation, and assessment to promote evidence-based learning. Demonstrated ability and understanding to design, commission, and manage assessment methodologies and techniques such as focus group discussions, key informant interviews, observations to name a few.
- Good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to analyses data and summarize it for a range of different audiences.
- Good understanding of red rose platform in addressing issues relating beneficiary cash programming
- Computer literate.
- Ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others.
- Proven ability to coordinate effective resource allocation to ensure quality programs.
- Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively and innovate and to set priorities and evaluate progress.
- Experience of working within budget constraints.
- Commitment to DRC’s mission, values, and approach.
- Commitment to team working and understanding of how to contribute. Ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others.
- Proven ability to coordinate effective resource allocation to ensure quality program.
- Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively and innovate and to set priorities and evaluate progress.
- Experience of working within budget constraints.
- Commitment to DRC’s mission, values, and approach.
- Commitment to team working and understanding of how to contribute.
Desirable:
- Good verbal and written communication skills. Ability to analyses data and summarise it for a range of different audiences.
- Ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others.
- Proven ability to coordinate effective resource allocation to ensure quality programmes.
- Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively and innovate and to set priorities and evaluate progress.
- Experience of working under budget constraints.
- Commitment to DRC mission, values and approach.
- Commitment to team working and understanding of how to contribute.
Core Competencies of DRC:
- Striving for excellence
- Collaboration
- Taking the lead
- Communication
- Demonstrating Integrity
Languages:
- English
- Ability to speak the common local languages including Hausa, Kanuri, and Fulani.
Key Stakeholders: (internal and external)
- MEAL Team Leader/ MEAL Coordinator
- Area Manager
- Other program staff
- Consortium partners
- Other humanitarian partners.
Salary & Benefits
- M-G
- In accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment.
- The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.
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Deadline: November 8, 2021
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Job Category | Administration/ Office/ Operations |