MEAL and Reporting Coordinator

ActionAid is an international organisation, working with over 25 million people in more than 40 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice. ActionAid Palestine is a part of the ActionAid International Federation and ActionAid Australia.

ActionAid is seeking to hire a qualified MEAL and Reporting Coordinator. 

Period: for 12 months period, with strict 3 months’ probation period.

Post location: Bethlehem with frequent travels to West Bank and Gaza governorates

Start Date: Immediately  

Role overview: The MEAL & Reporting Coordinator will be expected to lead on MEAL system implementation including monitoring, accountability initiatives, support evaluations, compile lessons learnt, annual planning and reporting cycle in close coordination with the Head of Programs. The post holder will be expected to mentor and/or building capacity for existing country programme staff as agreed with the AAP Senior Management Team.

The MEAL & Reporting Coordinator will be a member of the Evaluation, Accountability Global Leaders Network, hereinafter EAGLES and will take charge of adapting the ActionAid International MEAL framework to AAP Palestine Country Strategy Paper “Collective Action for Palestinian Justice- 2018-2022”.

MEAL and Reporting Coordinator key responsibilities:

• Set up systems to manage information generated by MEAL activities, such as beneficiaries’ databases. Conduct data analysis and present and disseminate information to inform programme management, course correction, reporting and learning.
• Lead the development of TORs for research, needs’ assessment, reviews and evaluations (internal and external).
• Conduct regular field visits to program locations, at least on quarterly basis; conduct meetings with rights holders, stakeholders and involved groups and reporting back on successes, learnings and challenges in a form of lessons learned paper semi-annually.
• Ensure employing the latest MEAL practices including but not limited to Outcome Harvesting approach for collecting program results at the impact level and ensure these are communicated for feedback and validation.
• Conduct training and awareness raising activities for operations and programme technical staff at field level regarding MEAL priorities and quality standards.
• Provide program staff as well as partners high level feedback on reporting against results frameworks, review content, support filling the data collection and analysis of data, tracking program indicators and reporting requirement as per the donor guidelines and instructed by the AA funding affiliate.
• Lead on the design of logical framework, MEAL plan for new projects/programmes and setting quantitative and qualitative indicators.
• Enhance AA Palestine’s capacity to actively implement accountability to communities through identifying appropriate tools and processes such as: Feedback mechanisms, participatory monitoring and evaluation, Participatory Review and Reflection Process, Social Audit, Transparency Board, Citizens’ Report, Citizens Charter and other Reflect Action approaches and tools.

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Eligible applicants are required to have the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, humanities, sociology or any relevant Development Studies.
• At least 7 years proven experience in former MEAL positions through a multi-culture working environment and in undertaking MEAL activities on youth and women empowerment projects.
• Experience in undertaking/supervising evaluations, reviews and needs’ assessment in previous posts.
• Good understanding of latest humanitarian and development trends in Palestine and globally and ability to convey this into the job requirement.
• Proven experience leading M&E activities and an ability to use a variety of approaches and methodologies, in particular participatory ones.
• Self-motivated, open to learning new methods and approaches, positive attitudes towards working with different groups.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] no later than 2nd of February 2025 and kindly include the job title in the subject line. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

 Women are encouraged to apply.

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