MEAL Assistant

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Development Studies or Social work and Social Administration with a post graduate qualification in Monitoring and Evaluation is desirable.
  
• At least three years’ experience working with vulnerable communities and familiarity with humanitarian programming and implementation.
  
• At least 3 years M&E related work experience in a humanitarian setting.
  
• Excellent demonstrated M&E skills including Data Analysis, situation analysis and problem definition, report writing skills and written communication skills in English
  
• Excellent Knowledge and use of Mobile data collection tools especially ODK.
  
• Demonstrated ability to design/formulate monitoring tools
  
• Experience of data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing
  
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
  

Routine monitoring and administration of project performance monitoring tools.

• Take the lead in conducting activity monitoring by developing as well as utilizing standard monitoring tools including FBM, ODM, CFRM, and Agency banking tools as well as activity attendance templates.
  
• Support the M&E officer to conduct routine and periodic collection and analysis of data by preparing field tools for data collection, training research assistants to administer tools, participating in field-pretesting of data collection tools, monitoring and supervising field data collection activities to ensure that tools are well administered as per SOPs and standard sampling methods.
  

Develop timely and high-quality periodic reports

• Prepare monthly activity monitoring reports and summary data analysis and submit them to the MEAL officer in time for review and subsequent sharing. Monthly reports include zonal reports, On-site distribution reports, Food Basket monitoring reports, cycle review meetings, CRM, and Agency banking monitoring reports among others.
  
• Ensure findings from these reports are disseminated to project staff.
  

Accountability to Affected Persons

• Participate in the setup of a Robust Community Help Desk as a forum to receive community issues and provide timely feedback.
  
• Build the capacity of community-based structures assigned to receive and document beneficiary feedback and provide them necessary tools for documentation.
  
• Organize and conduct end-of-cycle review meetings with community structures and beneficiaries.
  

Impact documentation, Learning, and Knowledge management

• Document human interest and success stories on a monthly basis to facilitate qualitative outcomes of the intervention.
  
• Update the issues tracker with progress and new actions and share these with the MEAL officer and FAO.
  

General assistance to the M&E Unit to ensure smooth execution and implementation of various activities in the unit

• Providing MEAL support to consultants and partners assigned to conduct assessments in the area of operation, attending, participating in staff meetings, and sharing MEAL findings.
  
• Ensure that evidence of activities like activity reports, attendance lists, concept notes, and activity TORs in the unit are properly filed for easy retrieval and references.