MEAL & IM Officer

Travel requirement

60%

Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in computer sciences/ social sciences/Project management or any relevant field.   
• Minimum 4-5 years of relevant experience with International NGO or related work in monitoring and evaluation in development sector.
• Good knowledge of technical principles and concepts in MEAL in emergencies.
• Knowledge of program design requirements and regulations of major donors
• Knowledge of project design and proposal development
• Knowledge of latest technological tools that have the potential to be applied in MEAL
• Experience of designing and data collection for PDMs, baseline,end-line, KAP/knowledge retention.
• Experience of managing and tracking KPIs’ data-sets.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances
• Good oral and written communication skills in English language, and regional language(s) is mandatory.
• Advance use of MS Office complete suit.

Position Objective

The MEAL/IM Officer  is responsible for implementing and strengthening of the MEAL and IM systems of ACF Pakistan mission.

S/he is responsible for providing support in:

• The development and execution of MEAL plans; development and/or adaption of MEAL tools; documentation and dissemination of key learnings from MEAL and track results in support of the project objectives and outcomes; and ensuring  FCM SoPs .
• The MEAL/IM Officer  undertakes this role in close collaboration with MEAL, IM and Research, program staff and partners.
• S/he will be responsible to support in design and execute PDMs, baseline , endline, and beneficiaries verifications and validations, support IM associate, MEAL and IM officer  to create and update the information management database , in addition to data cleaning and analysis to feed the reporting requirements and to participate the best quality of programming.

Mission 1: Data Collection

The MEAL/IM Officer is responsible for:

• Proactively engage with the partners to compile information on their activities, updating the related database;
• Review incoming data for completeness and consistency and advise the project team on the tools for improving data logging, entry and processing.
• Manage the program curated database (monitor quality of information to be shared according to the information sharing protocol)
• Implement ACF MEAL Framework and MEAL Plan,
• Help the project team and partners to build their capacity in efficient data collection and management processes.
• Provide the sector partners with the updated MEAL Plan/KPs and receive monthly reports against them.
• Support and ensure that each of the projects within thematic area is covered by a quality MEAL plan.
• Support in developing and amending the needed tools for MEAL (Observations, PDMs, Baseline/Endline, Studies, surveys…etc.)
• Support partners to effectively complete tool for measuring quality benchmarks.
• Support consistent and systematic integration of MEAL issues into the project (identification of gaps in the implementation and facilitating identification of solutions to enhance quality implementation
• Support MEAL & IM Manager, MEAL officer, partners’ training on remote monitoring tools and quality benchmarks.

Mission 2: Data Analysis and use

The MEAL/IM Officer is responsible for:

• Be the primary focal point with partners for data management, developing and maintaining information databases in addition to the conducted Monitoring and Evaluation tools.
• Become the primary analyst for weekly data, monitoring trends and highlighting concerns.
• Support coordination, analysis and draft findings for the project technical surveys as well as multi sector assessments, generic surveys and evaluations as needed. 

Mission 3: Visualization/ Reporting

The MEAL/IM Officer ECHO-09 is responsible for:

• Coordinate with SPM and MEAL & IM Manager to review weekly/monthly data submissions from partner team, including MEAL plans per partner as well as project achievement tools.
• In collaboration with MEAL & IM Manager, provide monthly analysis and reporting against the needed regular requirements with appropriate set of recommendations to the project/program management as a part of the Learning process.
• Develop analysis and top line reports for to be communicated with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the sector team(s) in donor reporting with accurate figures

Mission 4: Evaluation and Assessment

The MEAL/IM Officer is responsible for:

• Support MEAL & IM Manager, in conducting baseline, end-line, PDM surveys for ACF.
• In coordination with MEAL unit support partners in situation analysis (study methodology, tools and approaches) and need assessment for the new project/program development.
• In coordination with MEAL unit support for conducting mid-term as well as final project evaluations as per the requirement

Mission 5: Partnerships

The MEAL/IM Officer is responsible for:

• Support partners in developing coherent DIPs, tracking sheets, progress reports have meaningful participation in Project Review Meetings, etc.
• Conduct periodic review of project plans to identify bottlenecks and the ways those bottlenecks could be addressed
• Contribute to the improvement of effective system for complaints handling and response mechanisms at the projects level for partners.
• Support partner in maintaining effective information sharing mechanisms as per information sharing protocol
• Support training on beneficiary accountability and feedback mechanism
• Contribute to improvements in partner’s accountability system and procedure

Mission 5: Learning 

The MEAL/IM Officer is responsible for:

• Assist ongoing learning activities e.g. consolidated routine learnings/findings. After Lesson Learnt Review workshops, prepare lessons learnt and best practices report.
• Support generating quality learning through evaluations’ reports, monitoring report, researches, partner’s visits, accountability system and document learnings.
• Promote learning culture throughout sharing and utilization of learning during project.
• Collect relevant data, information documents (reports, project plans and proposals, M&E plans, data and information) information and ensure proper and systematic storage and filing.

Mission  6--: Ensure compliance with ACFs gender equality, child protection sensitivity and Safeguarding policies

The MEAL/IM Officer is responsible for:

• Read and ensure a full understanding of ACFs Gender, Child Protection and other safeguarding policies  
• Implement all work related activities with a gender, inclusion and child protection lens
• Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability.

Skills and resources needed to perform the function

• Strong data collection and research skills and ability to interpret and analyze data.
• Strong communication skill (Verbal & Writing)
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Good relationship management skills with ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary and multicultural teams
• Strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking capacity and skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word & Access) Web Conferencing Applications, knowledge-sharing networks

 Relationship 

Internal

• MEAL & IM team at base level
• Senior/Project Managers
• PDP department

External

Partner Organization

This Job Description may evolve according to the needs of the mission and in view the ever changing scope of your designation.

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