MEAL Manager

FUNCTION 
MEAL Manager

CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND

Secours Islamique France (SIF) is a Non-Governmental Organization of international solidarity based in France. Founded in 1991, SIF is a non-profit and non-political organization that intents to help, to bring relief and to protect the lives of those threatened by natural disasters, armed conflicts or by economic collapse. SIF provides its help in respect of the cultural diversity, without any distinction of origin, religion or gender. SIF Palestine Mission was established in 2008 and since then, it has set up many concrete activities in order to help in a large scale and developed a comprehensive knowledge of the local context and understanding of local needs. 
ROLE IN THE ORGANIZATION
The role of the MEAL Manager is to establish and implement systems to promote evidence-based decision-making and to ensure harmonized MEAL practices across program teams at the mission level. The position holder will support the design of standardized MEAL processes and tools in coordination with other departments. This will involve: creating, developing, and supporting program teams to use MEAL systems to collect, aggregate and analyse data; and play a key role in ensuring that the reporting needs of key stakeholders are met.
 
Generic Responsibilities
- Adhere to SIF policies, guidance, and procedures.
- Lead the development of MEAL systems, including procedures, guidelines and tools.
- Advise management on MEAL solutions/options in the design of staffing, resourcing and budgeting.
- Participate in program design and proposal discussions, including theory of change development and logical framework design.
- Support the program teams in planning for and executing MEAL activities, including, data collection methodologies and tools; and data management, analysis and use.
- Support the implementation, dissemination and use of evaluations and assessments; and also of monitoring data in program development, adjustment, or review.
-Contribute to organizational learning through supporting specific analysis, lessons learned, and reports.
-Capacity building and training of program and support staff as well as of partner organizations on MEAL technical and conceptual areas.
-Ensure effective knowledge sharing within the mission. 
-Serve as focal point for the mainstreaming of specific subjects and ensure that cross-cutting issues are implemented and reflected in programs with special focus on protection mainstreaming, gender, governance and child safeguarding.
 
Specific Responsibilities:
-Ensure MEAL plan is elaborated for each project and adhered to.
-Support program teams in organization of initial kick-off meetings for each project and launching the PMP monitoring part.
-Ensure regular project reviews using the PMP tool.
-Support Programs in organization of lessons learnt or action review workshops. 
-Ensure program monitoring data is collected in timely manner and is reliable and valid.
-Support programs in data collection, analysis and reporting.
-Support programs in analysis of indicators and beneficiary data.
-Develop Mission MEAL Standard Operation Procedures and train relevant staff on them.
-Ensure project quality and accountability through field visits, providing support to program team and developing appropriate tools and mechanisms to enhance quality delivery of projects.
-Lead project specific assessments (baseline, end line) and a multi-sectorial needs assessment and support in beneficiary selection process.
-Contribute to the development of MEAL tools including data collection instruments in order to inform SIF strategic indicators.
-Contribute to the development of monthly, quarterly, annual and donor reports.
-Lead and/or facilitate internal and external project evaluations, and learning exercises.
-Ensure all information is centrally held, accurate and available including that held in databases and guide and support the development of appropriate data management systems.
-Ensure feedback and suggestions are collected from affected populations and other stakeholders in adequate manner. 
-Provide timely information to country management team about risks related to the projects and share recommendations with the program team and partners based on available data analysis.
-Report performed activities and achievements to line supervisor.
-Participate in other MEAL and communications initiatives as needed.
-Ensure SIF reports timely relevant data to partners and within country coordination mechanisms.
-Perform any other duties related as may be assigned by supervisor. 
 

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QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES

A Bachelor degree in Economics, Political or Social Sciences, Quantitative or Statistical Analysis or other relevant degree;
Minimum 5 years of experience relevant in the field of monitoring and evaluation in INGOs;
Demonstrated experience in project proposal & report writing;
Experience in project cycle management;
Demonstrated experience in applied research in quantitative and qualitative fields including excellent command of sampling methods;
Experience in working in collaboration with NGOs, government agencies & other stakeholders;
Ability to build, manage and motivate teams and individuals to achieve set objectives and targets;
Experience in and commitment to participatory management and maintaining a supportive, open environment to ensure the transferring of knowledge & development of all staff;
Excellent written and spoken English, French is desirable;
Computer skills (MS Package), knowledge of statistical software and/or qualitative data management software will be an advantage;
Experience with mobile data collection software (ODK, Kobo Collect);
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
Ability to travel frequently and under the particular travel requirements of the assignment.
PERSONAL QUALITIES   

SIF expects the position holder to have the following personal qualities: moral integrity and high ethical standards, team spirit, patient, well-organized, flexible, open minded, sociable, highly motivated and able to work independently.

CONDITIONS 

Location: West Bank Position based in Ramallah
Duration: One year (renewable).
Starting Date: ASAP
MEAL Manager: (Ref #: 2023/03/MEM-WB)  

APPLICATION INSTRUCTION

Interested candidates are requested to send the followings:

Their CV,
Letter of Motivation with the Ref # of the post (as indicated above).
Two professional references for the last two employers with their contacts’ information.
All above documents should be sent not later than 02:00 p.m. on 13.08. 2023 to the following e-mail address:

[email protected]

Faxed CV’s or emails without the Post Title & Ref # will be neglected. Only candidates possessing relevant experiences will be shortlisted.

Secours Islamique France is an equal opportunity employer

SIF commits to respect the “Do no harm” humanitarian principle and ensure child safety is paramount in all its activities. SIF implements a Child Safeguarding Policy (CSP) at headquarters and in every mission. We do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with vulnerable people, in particular with children join our organization.

This position is subject to a range of vetting checks including criminal records disclosure and reference checks. We have zero tolerance for harmful practices and will take any allegation or report of child abuse very seriously.