MEAL Officer

Terre des hommes - Lausanne (Tdh) is a leading Swiss child relief agency with a strong global mandate in restorative juvenile justice, boasting over 40 years of experience in Palestine. Tdh is a well-recognized actor in Palestine, having established a long and fruitful collaboration with justice stakeholders and national institutions in the areas of policy, capacity building, and specialized service provision.

The MEAL Officer will play a critical role in maintaining the consistency and quality of MEAL strategies and activities across Tdh’s projects. This position requires ensuring that the MEAL system is effectively implemented and integrated with project teams. Specifically

The MEAL Officer will ensure the application of the Tdh Quality and Accountability standards and MEAL systems across all ongoing and new projects in Jerusalem and the West Bank, Palestine

She/he will lead capacity-building efforts for program and project teams, as well as partners, on MEAL topics, enhancing their understanding and application of MEAL practices

She/he will support and promote an organizational culture that values discussion, critical thinking, collective learning, and teamwork

Technical support

Identification

• Supports the teams in conducting needs assessments for new projects and programs. Ensures the development of research frameworks and instruments, data gathering, timely analysis and dissemination. Contributes to the updating of the context analysis.

Design

• Supports in conducting pre-action learning events, that reflects back on key lessons from similar previous projects & programming, (based on previous evaluations, capitalization processes, monitoring and management decisions). 
• Develops problem tree analysis, Theory of change, logframes, indicator, and MEAL narratives for new project designs.
• Develops the project level M&E plan / matrix, Indicator tracking table, and supports the establishment of the detailed work plan (including MEAL deliverables & timelines). Orients all project staff and management on these tools.
• Support the programs team in assessing partner capacities, especially focused on MEAL aspects, develop capacity building plans and support in developing partner organization competencies and systems on MEAL in alignment with Tdh HQ guidelines.

Monitoring (during implementation)

• Supports the project team to develop a project profile and the intervention selection criteria in simple language that is understandable by partners and beneficiaries, ensures this information is shared throughout the life of the project.
• Ensures project baselines are conducted as per donor regulations / Tdh M&E minimum standards.
• Rolls out the project M&E plan in the PFU, and tracks progress of indicators and activities throughout the life of the project, while supporting the programs team with tools and capacity building to monitor and report on the implementation (activity & output level).
• Develops project associated MEAL tools and guidelines for partner use, ensuring that the relevant partner staff are trained and coached on these material throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitors program quality independently of the programs team, with the support of the technical team, using methods and instruments such as quality check lists, process monitoring, post implementation monitoring and KAP.
• Conducts regular field visits to Tdh & partner programming locations to verify implementation, perform data quality audits, meet beneficiaries and obtain their feedback.
• Applies Mobile data collection instruments where applicable, and supports the programs team in developing databases and simple information management process to track and report implementation.
• Ensures data needed for Activity Info reporting, donor reporting, project reviews and evaluations is made available in complete, accurate and timely manner.
• Ensures Complaints Feedback and Response Mechanisms (CFRM) are established; beneficiaries and staff are informed about the process; and complaints are responded to in a timely and appropriate manner in coordination with programs.

Learning & Reflections

• Contributes to periodical project level reflection meetings, writing digestible reflection and lessons learning reports.

Closeout

• Ensures project end-lines and evaluations are conducted on time, in coordination with the programs team.
• Ensures all MEAL data, reports, and records are clearly organized archived in a central location for future reference by the delegation and donors.

Ethics

• Ensures ethical principles related to Core Humanitarian Standards are respected in all MEAL processes and programs.
• Mainstream gender equality, fairness and “do no harm”, as well as data protection protocols throughout all programming processes.
• Ensures that any violation to the code of conduct, safeguarding policy, staff mismanagement, corruption, exploitation, observed in program, with partner or within Tdh offices are escalated to management immediately.

Security and child safety

Understands and applies security policies, the Child Safeguarding Policy and fraud prevention policies. 

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• This role requires a mastery of Personal, Social and Leadership Competencies (PSLC), Technical and Methodological Competencies (TMC) and Management and Strategic Competencies (MSC):
• Adopts a collaborative attitude both inside and outside the department
• Command of support and advice roles and competencies
• Excellent conceptual and strategic analysis skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; active listening skills
• Flexibility, availability, and adaptability

Qualification:

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as social sciences, international development, statistics, or economics
• Language: Excellent oral and writing skills in English, Arabic

Previous experience:

• At least 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in a humanitarian context

Knowledge and skills:

• In-depth knowledge of concepts, processes and tools related to project cycle management, with proven experience in leading participatory processes.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, planning, and implementing MEAL initiatives, including needs assessments, theory of change development, planning, monitoring, evaluation, lessons learned capitalization, community participation, communication, and information management.
• Strong awareness and knowledge of ethical issues related to project management, including gender equality, fairness, and the principle of “do no harm”.
• Knowledge of and professional experience in the field of children’s rights, particularly in child protection, and SGBV, and MHPSS within the humanitarian aid and development context.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly to field operational areas.
• Very good understanding of accountability systems related to affected populations.
• Advance excel skills, and ODK / KoBo,

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies:

Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff

Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies

Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in

Interested candidates should send their resume with motivation letter on or before Friday 4th of October 2024 to [email protected] indicating your name, surname and the job title ( MEAL officer) in the subject line of your e-mail application. Incomplete applications or applications received after the deadline will be disregarded.

Please note that while Tdh values every application, the recruitment process may be concluded ahead of schedule should Tdh identifies a candidate who meets all the requirements. Tdh encourages interested applicants to submit their applications promptly.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and those shortlisted will be contacted.