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Sr. MEAL Officer
Relief International

Relief International (RI) is an international non-governmental organization US and UK based, working in the humanitarian field since 2004 in Sudan, providing emergency relief and early recovery activities to internally displaced persons (IDP) and rural communities, focusing in lifesaving health and nutrition services. RI is looking for qualified candidates to fill the vacancies mentioned herewith


 Vacancy No: 5
 Supervisor: MEAL Coordinator
 No. of Post: 5
 Duty Station: Based in Damazine, with frequent travel to the field.
 Duration: 7 months renewable
 Closing Date: 11 Feb 2023

 
 Background:

Relief International (RI) is a leading global organization and home to teams of humanitarian activist-professionals committed to transforming adversity into renewal for the world’s most vulnerable populations. By partnering with beneficiaries and communities on the front-lines, RI innovatively bridges the gap between immediate relief and long-term community development.

 

SUMMARY:

The Sr. MEAL Officer is responsible to lead and support MEAL activities of RI programme in Blue Nile State. The Sr. MEAL Officer will be responsible for planning, coordinating and reporting MEAL activities, monitoring, documentation, assessments, accountability mechanism, and reporting. He/She will provide supervision and technical MEAL support to MEAL Officers.

 

Supervision: The Sr. MEAL Officer will work under the technical supervision of the MEAL Coordinator and managerial supervision of the Area Manager.



 
 Duties and responsibilities:

ESSENTIAL JOB ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Planning:

  • Map out all MEAL activities and ensure that the activities are included in the main MEAL work plan.
  • Ensure that each project has M&E tools as required (theory of change, logical framework, IPTT, IPRS, and M&E framework, and DIP).
  • Give back to the MEAL Coordinator progress of all the MEAL activities.
  • Report on the progress of MEAL activities.

 

Monitoring:

  • Lead and facilitate regular monitoring visits to RI and partners (using RI standard monitoring checklist as agreed by MEAL and Sectors). Prepare and share monitoring reports with relevant staff following monitoring visits.
  • Ensure RI and partners are compliant to standard data recording and reporting procedures.
  • Ensure data quality through regular data quality check/verification visits to RI and partners’ sites; reviewing and providing timely feedback to Data Officers for required adjustment; and conducting a follow up monitoring visit to facilities and sites to resolve discrepancies and obtain further information for incomplete document.
  • Following each visit; compile and submit a data verification report to the MEAL Coordinator; do a follow up and ensure concerns identified are addressed on time.
  • Update project logical frameworks and IPTTs in LogAlto database.
  • Review reports from RI project managers and officers before submitting to the MEAL Coordinator for final review.
  • Facilitate on job training to partners’ staff to ensure compliance to minimum data collection and management standards.
  • Coordinate and facilitate joint monitoring visits (including government and donor monitoring visits) and prepare and share monitoring reports with relevant staff following the visits.
  • Support sectors in monthly data entry in the databases (upon request).

 

Evaluation:

  • Support coordination of baseline, mid-term and endline evaluation, assessments, and special studies.
  • Working with the MEAL team to follow up on evaluation feedback and recommendations.

 

Accountability:

  • Coordinate accountability to community activities, including managing feedback and complaints channels (hotline calls, suggestion boxes, and monthly community dialogue sessions).
  • Conduct regular community awareness sessions on RI feedback and complaint mechanisms.
  • Provide weekly update of community feedback and complaint log-sheet and proper file of documents in Box - Accountability folder.
  • Track and ensure timely response to received feedback and complaints.
  • Consolidate and share monthly feedback and complaints report to MEAL Coordinator.

Learning:

  • Coordinate identification and documentation of success stories, best practices, achievements, lessons learned, recommendations, and activity photographs.
  • Create timely data and information/document backups in RI-MEAL Sudan Box Folder

 

You will provide support to programme and other departments on MEAL related requests.


 
 Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: 

Bachelor’s degree in public health, demography, sociology, epidemiology, Statistics, psychology, Monitoring & Evaluation and/or other relevant fields with at least three years of relevant professional work experience.

 

Experience 

  • Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience, preferably in an international NGO, in similar role or with similar responsibilities
  • Knowledge of Health, Nutrition, WASH and protection
  • Demonstrated experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, accountability, and Learning
  • Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis, and reporting 
  • Strong analytical and report writing skills
  • Good working knowing of Microsoft package (Excel, Word, and PPT)
  • Familiarity with data management systems and analysis software (SPSS, STATA, etc.) and mobile data collection is a plus.

RI Values:

We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value:

  • Inclusiveness
  • Transparency and Accountability
  • Agility and Innovation
  • Collaboration
  • Sustainability

 

 

 

 

To apply: Please, submit your CV, work certificates and qualification to HAC Office in Damazin, a telephone contact number and two professional references, or online through sudanjob.net closing date: 11.02.2023, at 14:00 

  • Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the interview. To find out more about Relief International please visit our website at http://www.ri.org.








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