CARE International is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to saving lives and ending poverty. We work in over 94 countries around the world to provide over 1000 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) / Reporting Officer
Location: Maiduguri, Borno State
Position Type: Regular
Job Summary
- Responsible for Food Livelihood and Nutrition Security (FLNS) Project Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL).
- The MEAL Officer will design implement cost effective, innovative robust MEAL system.
- The MEAL will continually review the practicality and effectiveness and suggest modifications as necessary of the MEAL system.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Responsibility 1: Develop an appropriate MEAL system in line with the FLNS Sector design and objectives:
- Task 1: Continually examine specific FLNS Sector and project output components to be monitored and evaluated.
- Task 2: Develop monitoring, accountability and reporting tools for the respective projects’ and programs’ outputs, suggest modifications and develop new and appropriate tools as necessary.
- Task 3: Provide routine guidance to FLNS Sector on field testing and use of new innovative monitoring tools as they are developed and refine them for FLNS Sector use.
Responsibility 2: Facilitate the implementation of FLNS Sector MEAL system and ensure accuracy of data and information collected:
- Task 1: Take the lead in training all FLNS Sector staff in understanding and use of all monitoring and reporting tools.
- Task 2: Review field reports to ensure that they respond to the FLNS Sector objectives and comply with sector indicators.
Responsibility 3: Ensure FLNS Sector data and information collected are analyzed and made accessible to the management in a form usable for decision-making:
- Task 1: Establish a filing system for various program activities to ensure easy retrieval of information as and when needed.
- Task 2: Develop an appropriate project data base of the sector to facilitate processing of required information.
- Task 3: Continually analyze FLNS Sector field data to verify status as and when necessary, and produce daily, weekly, monthly/quarterly data computation and analysis reports for use by project/project management.
- Task 4: Verify the validity of field data by making routine field visits to check adherence to agreed data collection methods and authenticity of collected information.
- Task 5: Documentations of lessons learnt, good practices and support the FLNS writing refereed papers for publication
Responsibility 4: Supervision, Liaison and collaboration with other projects, and agencies (e.g. UN, INGOs, State and Local Government Area (LGA):
- Task 1: Supervise, review and coordinate contracted consultants and any other persons assigned to MEAL officer
- Task 2: Facilitate collaboration on MEAL with other agencies in the region to ensure uniformity in tracking of FLNS Sector indicators.
- Task 3: Promote good PR and enhance CARE’s positive image during presentations
- Task 4: Perform any other monitoring and evaluation duties as may be assigned by the supervisor from time to time.
- Task 5: Perform any other tasks assigned by the Sector Manager or her/his designate
Qualification and experience
- Minimum of first Degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, Agricultural Economics
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in M&E
- Competent in use and application of SPSS
- Excellent experience on conducting quantitative and qualitative research, studies, assessment from start to end including dissemination of findings to a wide range of diverse audience
Conditions
By submitting your Application for this position you agreed to CARE’s ZERO Tolerance to:
- Fraud
- Sexual Harassment, Exploitation, Abuse and Child Abuse
Application Closing Date
19th December, 2018.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications and detailed CV as a single document indicating clearly in the subject line of the email the position being applied for and the location (in Caps e.g. MONITORING, EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY & LEARNING (MEAL) / REPORTING OFFICER - MAIDUGURI) to:
[email protected]
Note
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- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
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