JOB TITLE: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Assistant

NUMBER: 1

LOCALIZATION: Based in Mogadishu but with frequent travel to all Medair Somalia project locations.

LINE MANAGER: MEAL Officer

TECHNICAL SUPERIOR: MEAL Officer

CONTRACT PERIOD: 1 year (with possibilities of extension)

Internal

Functional links

•  MEAL, Health, Nutrition, Community Health, and WASH sectors and Support

departments

External

•  Medair’s  implementing  partners,  Community  structures  and  individual

beneficiaries in all Medair’s project locations.

•  Under the supervision of the Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning

Responsibilities

(MEAL) Officer, the MEAL Assistant will be responsible for providing technical

support for smooth implementation and coordination of the project monitoring,

evaluation, and learning system within an integrated framework.

Key tasks

The primary objective of MEAL assistant is to:

•  Facilitate timely data collection from the source before, during and after

program interventions.

•  Verify data from the field, do initial cleaning and analysis to determine

completeness.

•  Accurately enter data from project sites into the database, ensuring high

standards of Accuracy, Consistency and Timeliness

•  Analyse the data collected using the provided monitoring evaluation and

learning software/tools and provide quality reports to M&E officer and Project

Managers

•  Support the MEAL Officer in promoting integrity of programming data, including

compliance with ethical standards and information-sharing protocols.

•  Carry out planned monitoring and evaluation activities against project

indicators.

•  Carry out Post Distribution Monitoring (PDMs) periodically.

•  Support internal and external field monitoring missions in various project sites.

Implementation  of  the

•  In coordination with the MEAL Officer and Project Managers, promote the use of

M&E system

monitoring, evaluation, and learning tools at all levels of project interventions.

•  Support project teams in developing monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans,

as appropriate.

Exploitation of M&E data

•  Assess the scope, timeliness and progress of project deliverables and feedback to

M&E officer and Project Managers

•  On a quarterly basis, provide report to MEAL Officer and Project Managers on

actual vis a vis planned project performance as set out in the log frame.

Reviews

•  Support in programmatic evaluations, assessments and surveys.

•  Ensure that assessments meet donor standards and Medair M&E guidelines.

•  Follow up on implementation of recommendations from evaluations.

•  Support in the documentation of survey findings and determination of lessons

learnt