Senior MEAL Technical Officer

Job Purpose:

Employment Type: Definite Period

The Senior MEAL Technical Officer provides technical support to all country programmes throughout the country. Strengthen Concern’s existing MEAL system and provide technical support for projects and programs in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation adhering to Concern PCMS. Ensure accountability and implementation of core humanitarian standards. Undertake programme learning reviews and documentation using appropriate database system and digital solutions and disseminate results to appropriate audience internally and externally. 

Main duties & Responsibilities: 

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Support the MEAL Coordinator in the management and implementation of field-level M&E data collection activities
• Support programme field staff in the collection of activity- and output-level monitoring data during activity implementation
• Carry out data collection where it is an M&E responsibility as per the M&E plans
• Ensure that M&E systems are being implemented to plan at the field level and communicate any issues or inefficiencies that arise to the MEAL Coordinator in a timely and proactive manner
• Support training for external enumerators or partner staff that conduct baseline, midterm, and end line surveys (including ethics and safety, sampling and respondent selection, device use, as well as survey contents)
• Field manage external enumerators or partner staff in conducting baseline, midterm, and end line surveys
• Support programme staff in accessing and utilizing data

Digital Data Gathering

• Support the MEAL Coordinator in administrating the country's DDG profile
• Liaise with the Dublin DDG team on issues related to device management, survey requests, and administration of the in-country iForm DDG platform
• Complete new and modified survey and tool requests as needed
• Provide field-level support to programme staff in device management and utilization of the Concern DDG system 

Accountability and Learning

• Analyze M&E data and summarizing it into accessible, understandable, useful information for programme teams to use for decision-making and applying adaptive and results-based project and programme management
• Identify and manage effective and efficient information sharing mechanisms that are useful and supportive for programme staff
• Ensure accountability and learning through planning and facilitating periodic progress reviews (at the activity and output levels) and results-based reviews (at the outcome level) and M&E and Programme staff for all projects and programmes
• Support external consultants and evaluators in managing materials/data/information
• Oversee efforts to promote documentation and sharing of programme impact and learning, ensuring sharing of lessons learnt between programmes in country and other country programmes and Concern offices, government and other non-governmental organizations.
• Actively promote sharing of learnings from baselines, endlines, reviews and evaluations internally and externally.
• Facilitate learning workshops after every external evaluation and ensure the completion of quality Management Responses to all evaluation recommendations
• Provide input to project learning reviews and donor reports, as required.

Capacity Building

• Support the development and implementation of needs-based training for Concern staff and partners on PCMS and PM&E tools, concepts, and their application
• Support identify external capacity building opportunities for Programmes and M&E staff in relation to programme planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Support to expose staff to a range of PM&E methodologies for the collection of both qualitative and quantitative data
• Provide capacity building support to the sector programme teams to develop suitable indicators to measure programme activities at outcome and impact level
• Research, analyze and disseminate to staff relevant/ new approaches, concepts and frameworks, and learning from Concern, stakeholders, and the wider development sector
•  Perform any other assignment given by immediate supervisor or line manager.

Emergency response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Accountability 

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS): 

• Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E); 
• Work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed; 
• Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities. 

Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
• Practises in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including carers, family members and children at risk.
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.

Gender Equality 

• Ensure that all HR policies and procedures relating to Concern Ethiopia’s gender equality strategy are implemented
• Ensure that all gender sensitive policies and procedures are fully adhered to during recruitment processes
• Contribute to promoting a gender sensitive working environment within Concern Ethiopia 

• Masters or Bachelor’s degree in such as Statistics, Economics, Development studies, M&E  and Research 
•  5 years of relevant experience with the first degree. 
• 3 years of relevant experience plus post graduate degree.
• 1 year supervisory skill 
• Experience in humanitarian programming in addition to development programming is an advantage
• Clear understanding and experience in directly implementing primary qualitative data collection (key informant interviews, focus group discussion, participatory qualitative methods, survey, etc.)
• Clear understanding and experience of quality assurance in data collection Ability to provide technical advice and support
• Experience of providing training and capacity building to programme and M & E staff
• Excellent communication skills; able to work as part of a team and establish relationships with field offices
• Excellent computer and digital data gathering system skills; must to have ability in statistical analysis software packages such as STATA,SPSS etc. and knowledge of iForm Building platform is desirable     

Skills Required

• Basic managerial skills.
• Technical and report writing skills
•  Computer literate
• .Fluent spoken and written English.
•  Good communication and interpersonal skills

 What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
•  26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18weeks(unpaid) parental leave