Project Assistant - MEAL at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work are accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

CRS has been supporting program activities in Nigeria for over 30 years and has long-standing relationships with Church and non-Church partners and communities throughout the country. The Nigeria country program has a diverse funding base with projects in health, nutrition, food security and agricultural livelihoods, microfinance (SILC), emergency response and peacebuilding. CRS/Nigeria currently has over 210 national and 8 international staff. With an FY22 annual budget of over USD $100 million, coupled with strong donor interest in supporting CRS’ work in the country, significant growth opportunities exist for the CP. The CP has been supporting emergency activities in the NE states since 2015 with offices in Damaturu, Maiduguri and Yola.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Assistant - MEAL

Job ID: 22000044
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job Type: Full-time
Shift: Standard
Schedule: Regular
Job Level: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time
Job: Program Management
Employee Status: Individual Contributor

Job Summary

• Under the direct supervision of the MEAL Manager, the MEAL Assistant will be responsible for supporting project MEAL activities, including registration, analysis, and report writing.
• The MEAL Assistant will be based in Maiduguri and will work closely with the Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team for technical support.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Assist in regular monitoring exercise such as Onsite Monitoring and Post Distribution Surveys that include Focused Group Discussion.
• Collect quantitative and qualitative data on project activities as required.
• Assist in proper documentation and filing of all MEAL & Program documents.
• Ensure the MEAL checklists are completed for each MEAL activities.
• Prepare activity report on daily basis after each field visit and report to MEAL Officer.
• Support the MEAL Officer to conduct beneficiary registration exercise and spot-check visits to the project sites.
• Support MEAL Officer and MEAL Manager in any MEAL related training activities.
• Actively participate in MEAL learning exercise, compiling and keeping logsheet for key lessons learnt and good practices from all evaluations and assessments.
• Support in the regular Market Food Price Monitoring and Nutrition data collection exercises.
• Assist in the review and testing all M&E tools.
• In coordination with the MEAL Manager and MEAL Officer, maintain the project’s stock of IT equipment (including vendor phones, program phones, solar panels, Bluetooth printers, etc.).
• With support from FFP MEAL manager, support the timely submission of the planned assessment report, post-distribution monitoring reports, and evaluation reports.
• Support the development and testing of electronic data entry questionnaires using the, KOBO app, Commcare (or other software as needed) during periodic surveys and data analysis using appropriate statistical package.
• Support the training of enumerators, and community nutrition workers on data collection tools and the utilization of devices.
• Raise procurement requisitions for project activities and update the relevant requisition database.

Key Working Relationships - Enumerators:

• Internal: Program Managers, MEAL, Emergency Coordinator, Accountability, Operations staff
• External: Local partners, Red Rose team, enumerators, external consultants and other key stakeholders.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Social Sciences, Information and Technology Management, Statistics or any other relevant equivalent degree.
• 2 - 4 years of MEAL experience working in an iNGO

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Basic computer skills in Excel and Word processing.
• Demonstrated commitment to gender responsive programming.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, oral and written communication skills.
• Team-oriented and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to organize and prioritize a variety of initiatives.
• Knowledge of English, Hausa required. Kanuri would be strongly preferred.
• Experience working with Information and Communication Technologies (software and hardware)
• Should understand safeguard and protection issues in the context of Borno

Required Languages:

• English, Hausa and Kanuri Languages

Travel:

• Must be willing and able to travel up to 40% of the time to field locations.

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Integrity
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation.
• Builds Relationships.
• Develops Talent
• Strategic Mindset
• Accountability & Stewardship

Application Closing Date
1st March, 2022.