MEAL Assistant

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

Vocational qualification

•  University degree in relevant field (Such as Statistics, Data management, Social

Science, Biostatistics or any relevant field)

Work experience

•  At least 3 years’ experience in a similar field of activity with a humanitarian NGO.

Languages

•  Fluency in English (written & spoken)

•  Fluency in Somalia (spoken & written)

•  Excellent interpersonal and report-writing skills

IT

•  Proficiency  and  experience  with  mobile  data  collection  such  as  ONA,

CommCare, ODK Collect is vital as well as proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SPSS,

STATA, or other similar software. Knowledge of Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or GIS

software tools are additional assets.

COMPETENCES

Motivation

Actively manages own development and performance positively.

•  Builds the capacity of colleagues by sharing knowledge (induction) and acting as

induction ‘buddy’ when asked.

•  Open to learning new things.

•  Responds positively to feedback from others.

•  Learns lessons from successes and failure

Team building

Supportive team player: open to sharing and receiving information.

•  Ease in establishing relationships internally and externally.

Adaptability

Personal awareness of own stress and emotional indicators

Stress management capacity

Creative thinker

•  Adaptability to a demanding work environment

Technical expertise

Excellent communication and analytical skills

Excellent social skills

•  Knowledge and understanding of humanitarian standards.

•  Demonstrated analytical, systematic-thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Management &

The M&E Assistant will occasionally relieve the MEAL Officer when on leave.

Leadership

Good planning, organisation and reporting skills, so that deadlines will be met.

•  Good problem-solving skills.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the incumbent. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and activities required for the post.

Interested candidates meeting the above requirements to send their application letters and CVs to:

[email protected] with “MEAL Assistant” as the subject, by 11th November 2023.

Note that ONLY candidates meeting the selection criteria will be contacted.