Monitoring Evaluation Accountability &Learning (MEAL) Officer

The main purpose of the MEAL Officer is to:

• Ensure the development, incorporation and adoption of MEAL plans, tools and methodologies across the country program, to ensure their effectiveness and efficiency;
  
• Initiate and carry out data collection, analysis, learning and reporting activities, ensuring accountability to local communities, and promoting continuous learning and improvement; and
  
• That donors’ MEAL requirements are met, and that MEAL activities are coordinated and are in accordance with IsraAID’s global MEAL strategy and
  

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

• Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields: social sciences, statistics, demographics, international development or a related field;
  
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working in the field of MEAL (including indicator selection, target setting, data collection and analysis, facilitating learning processes, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans);
  
• Knowledge of the major evaluation types (process, impact etc.), methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, mixed method) and data collection and analysis methods;
  
• Experience in developing data collection instruments.
  
• Planning and managing surveys, developing and refining data collection methods and tools, conducting data quality assessments and oversight - experience and knowledge of participatory MEAL methods.
  

PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND DEMANDS:

• Typical office environment with field visits demands.
  
• Ability to work in a fragile context.
  

Level of Contact with Children:

High contact: Frequent interaction with children.

LANGUAGES

Essential:English and Kiswahili. Local language is an added advantage.

COMPLIANCE & ETHICS

• Promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics
  
• As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conduct work with the highest level of integrity. Communicate these values to staff and to partners and require them to adhere to these values
  
• Understanding of and commitment to the principles of non-discrimination, local ownership, sustainability, inclusiveness, local partnership, do-no-harm, and apolitical approach; codes of conduct against sexual exploitation and abuse; and against child exploitation and modern slavery.
  
• Commitment to abide by IsraAid’s and UN’s codes of conducts and principles
  
• Commitment to humanitarian principles