MEAL Officer at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: MEAL Officer

Location: Borno
Job type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• Ensure implementation of the M&E plan for the all programmes including monitoring progress against planned activities, critical milestones and targets as well as providing support and guidance to program officers, Program Specialist and consortium CSO/government counterparts to ensure that the data collection, data management and reporting, are of the highest possible quality.

Key Areas of Accountability
Objective 1 - Coordinate Data Collection, Data Quality Management, Analysis and State level Reporting:

• Participate in the design of programme monitoring and evaluation tools (registers, reporting templates, databases, etc.) to track the progress of projects
• In collaboration with MEAL coordinator, ensure timely data collection, compilation and reporting according to programme M&E plan
• Conduct monthly data analysis and prepare monthly programme IPTT monitoring reports
• Ensure the programme database is updated regularly
• Support programme feedback meetings to communities, facilities and authorities
• Support the MEAL coordinator and MEAL Advisor to implement the DQA system including the conduct of data quality assessments according to the M&E plan
• Support the M&E Advisor in data management for rapid assessments, situational analysis, surveys, evaluations and other research as required
• Plan, forecast and facilitate the production and supply of M&E tools and materials to supported sites

Objective 2 - Support Programme Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Support the MEAL Coordinator to monitor protection some Education projects across all target communities and communicate provide findings and progress to Program Managers
• Participate in the evaluation of protection projects, focusing on data management of evaluation datasets.
• Support the dissemination and use of evaluation and research reports and propose changes for improvement to the Protection sector

Objective 3 - Support Documentation, Reporting, Knowledge Sharing and Effective Feedback Mechanism:

• Support coordination of protection projects monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual reviews and reports as required.
• Participate in the dissemination of program information to communities, children, and other stakeholders through a regular feedback mechanism
• Support the management of the beneficiary complaints and feedback mechanism database
• Update shared drive and project team space with program monitoring documents regularly

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
• Ability to do basic data tabulation for report development by MEAL Coordinator
• High level of accuracy in work, and the ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
• Holds self and others accountable

Ambition:

• Creating best-in-class EA function
• Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively

Collaboration:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Designing more effective admin and data management systems
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• First degree in relevant field - BSc/BA/HND
• Minimum - 2 years post NYSC relevant experience with local and international NGOs
• Previous experience with consortium protection and Education projects including identification and child protection issues
• Proficiency in the use of MS Excel or other statistical package e.g SPSS,
• Fluency in English
• Ability to work in partnership with government and development partners
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a team setting
• Independence, adaptability and flexibility
• Excellent communication skills including report writing

Application Closing Date
21st December, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Applicants are advised that Save the Children International does not require any payment or expense during the entire recruitment process. Any request in this direction should be immediately reported as it is contrary to the values and practices of our organization.
• Due to the volume of applications received, Save the Children may not provide feedback to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received. Save the Children reserves the right to change the closing date, if considered necessary.