As a registered charity, founded in 1979, Action Against Hunger operates in 45+ countries. The international network of Action Against Hunger is represented in France, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, USA and India. Teams in the field combat hunger on 04 fronts: Nutrition and Health, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Water, Sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and Mental Health and Care Practices (MHCP).

We are currently looking for the following professional:

Senior MEAL Officer

General Assignment:

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for the overall day-to-day management of the MEAL activities at the base. S/he will ensure proper implementation of the monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities, monitor project activities in the field, and oversee proper delivery of activity progress reports, compile and share for the capital team. Furthermore, s/he will support the MEAL TA in the rolling out of MEAL tools and will assist data quality checking. Producing and compiling learning documents, like success stories is also the Senior MEAL Officer. Finally, the Senior MEAL Officer will provide monitoring and PDM assessment, MEAL activities and accountability reports.

Objective 1: Implement the monitoring and evaluation activities at the field:

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for:

• Develop and implement MEAL plan for each project;

• Ensure that MEAL standards of the program and the mission are being implemented and respected;

• Ensure the proper follow up,  compilation and review of Activity Progress Reports;

• Support the country office in undertaking  baseline surveys with high quality of data collection;

• Ensure timely undertakings in assessments like Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM), exit interviews, and target verification reports etc.;

• Lead the annual need assessment exercise of the field office,

• Undertake continuous field monitoring visits and draft reports on the visits, including actions and recommendations taken;

• Review and compile field level donor and government reports for consistency with the MEAL standards; 

Objective 2: Effectively implement the accountability system:

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for:

• Establishing context based functional accountability system for the base;

• Ensure clear, timely and relevant project information are shared for communities and beneficiaries; 

• Ensuring project beneficiaries know about the project activities, their entitlements, targeting criteria,  selection criteria and feedback and complaint mechanism;

• Ensuring communities and project beneficiaries actively participated throughout the project period;

• Establishing contextual Community Feedback and Complaint and Response Mechanism (CFRM);

• Ensuring feedbacks are collected, recorded in a database, reviewed timely, track and coordinate with program managers for timely response; and compile the monthly accountability reports;

• Support the MEAL TA’s and the mission in roll outing MEAL and accountability guideline;

• Ensuring the voices and concerns of the community and beneficiaries we serve are heard through regular individual and community level assessment (FGD and KII);

Objective 3: Effectively and efficiently, utilize communication, coordination and partnerships: 

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for:

• Consulting with the PM to determine support needs in field level MEAL;

• Support the field team in quality data management;

• Maintain on-going relationships with individuals and contacts through networks, based on mutual rapport and respect;

• Estimate the resources needed to achieve your own work plans or objectives and to deliver them in the most efficient and cost effective way;

• Set and communicate realistic timelines for achieving tasks, working out how best to adapt as priorities change or unforeseen circumstances arise;

• Seek better ways of doing things, taking into account the possible implications;

• Look inside and outside Action Against Hunger for new ideas and evaluate them for own work;

Objective 4: Reporting 

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for:

• Compile monthly Activity Progress Reports of the field office,

• Prepare monthly accountability report of the field office,

• Prepare Monthly MEAL Activity Report,

Objective 5: Learning:

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for:

• Facilitate experience sharing and review meetings at the field level between sectors;

• Establish a system for gathering, organizing, documenting and sharing of learnings and best practices;

• Producing success stories and share for learning and program implementation improvement;

• Document and share best practices and learnings through publications, web sharing and other means within the mission;

Reporting Responsibilities:

• Review and compile APRs

• Ensure functional Feedback and Complaint Mechanism 

• Accountability Report 

• Monthly MEAL Activity Report

• Produce and Compile Program success stories 

• Learning documentation.

Educational Qualifications and Skills Required:

• Minimum- bachelor’s degree in humanitarian affairs, public health, epidemiology, demography, statistics, economics, or other human health science fields.

• Preferably 1 up to 2 years of experience in the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability of humanitarian or development programs; 

• Familiarity with one of Action Against Hunger intervention thematic areas is also preferable.

• 1-year experience as lecturer or assistant lecturers in the field of epidemiology, bio-statistics, statistic, demography and research.

• Fresh graduate whose first or second degree cumulative GPA greater than 3.5 can apply.

• Fluency in English (both written and spoken skills).

• Knowledge of the vacant position local language is mandatory.

Required Skills:

• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and culturally sensitive

• Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills

• Skills on at least one statistical data analysis software (MS Excel, SPSS, etc.)

• Microsoft Office Skills (Outlook, Excel, Power Point, Word)

• Knowledge of  project cycle management

• Commitment to ACF mission, values and policy

• Experience in humanitarian M&E

• Experience in monitoring and evaluating donor (i.e. ECHO, SIDA, PRM, EHF) funded activities preferable.

• Experience in designing and leading internal and external evaluation preferable 

• Experience designing and leading capacity building and training for program teams preferable 

• Familiarity with Management Information Systems (Databases) and GIS preferable 

• Previous experience with nutrition, WASH, food security and livelihoods programming.

• Previous experience with cash based interventions (i.e. cash for work, cash transfers or cash vouchers)

• Experience with mobile data collection processes and platforms

• Experience with GIS and spatial analysis

• Familiarity with Management Information Systems (Databases)