Title:  Senior MEAL Officer (Readvertisement)

Location:  Addis Ababa

Reports to: Manager, MEAL

Company Description

Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society. Around the world, we are growing a movement of abolitionists who believe freedom is worth the fight. Our team works from more than 30 locations across five continents. Hope for Justice Ethiopia currently operates 4 Lighthouses (transition shelter) in Addis Ababa, Sodo, and Bahir Dar, to rescue and reintegrate children at-risk and survivors of trafficking by providing shelter, psychosocial services, catch-up education, and life skills programmes. Hope for Justice runs effective community prevention programs, focusing on safe migration, child protection, parenting skills, and economic strengthening. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.

Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of diversity, equality and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.

Overall purpose of the role

The Senior MEAL officer will assist the MEAL Manager in overall management and output of the MEAL unit. 

MEAL minimum standards

· Support Regional MEAL Officers to implement MEAL minimum standards across the portfolio.

· Design appropriate tools and methodologies for assessing project outcomes.

· Check the quality of data being collected to ensure it is accurate.

· Assist the MEAL manager in ensuring HfJ Ethiopia’s database is well designed, electronically maintained, accessible to relevant staff, and compliant with data protection policies and laws.

· Coordinate training, mentorship, and technical assistance support to the project staff and partners, in the use of the MEAL system and accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting

Evidence and learning

· Assists in designing and overseeing baseline, midterm and final evaluation studies of projects.

· Lead the review of gathered data, interpreting findings and providing analyses in written reports across each project and award.

· Conduct regular studies and exploration on the time series data collected in the HfJ database to shed light on project results and to aid decision-making.

· Write good quality analyses and research reports that can be published.

· Keep up to date with developments in MEAL, including best practice examples within the country and internationally, and ensure continuing professional development and learning.

· Support project and bid development, by highlighting existing evidence around good practice, by providing information on our own interventions and learning, and by supporting the development of theories of change, logical frameworks, etc.

Reporting

· Play the lead role in ensuring donor and government reporting is prepared in a timely and accurate manner, and addresses performance against targets and deliverables agreed.

· Provide regular project and programme updates in suitable formats and respond to specific requests for projects and programmes data.

General

· Act as a primary contact person in the absence of the MEAL manager

· Perform other duties as assigned by MEAL Manager

· Promote Hope for Justice’s core values of Honoring, Openness, Professionalism and Empowerment across the organization and with partners

· Represent the organization in different review meeting, workshop and network meetings

· Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise. 

Key Result Areas

· Data is accurate, relevant, and available on a timely basis.

· Projects and awards follow MEAL minimum standards and have developed the associated documentation.

· Reports are accurate, timely, and provide the information and analysis required.

· Survivors and other stakeholders have the information on our work to be able to hold us to account.

Technical Skills

· Good organizational skills.

· Understand basic Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning principles (ideally as they are defined within MEAL DPro).

· Training facilitation skill.

· Ability to write accurate, concise and informative reports.

· Language proficiency in written and spoken English.

· Computer literacy in Microsoft Office packages.

· Safeguarding

Soft Skills

· Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, including excellent listening skills.

· Resolute, and committed to achieving high quality standards and striving for excellence.

·  Accurate and attentive to detail.

·  Good analytical thinking skills.

· Flexibility to cope with unexpected situations.

·  A team player and have a desire to learn and be stretched in new areas of your profession.

Job Requirements

Education

·  First level university degree in Statistics or other Social Science-related fields.

·   MEAL DPro or equivalent qualification is desirable

Experience

· Understanding of and experience in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking is desirable.

·   At least relevant 5 years’ experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning.

· Experience working with vulnerable children and families.

How to Apply

Submit updated CV and cover letter explaining your motivation and why they are suited for the post via email: Hr.ethiopia@hopeforjustice.org. along with the salary expectation

NOTE: Please put the position you are applying for “Senior MEAL Officer – Addis Ababa “ in the subject line of your email.

Hope for Justice promotes diversity in the workplace. Regardless of age, marital status, ethnicity, sex, color, country origin, or religion, Hope for Justice evaluates all applicants solely based on their merits.

Hope for Justice has zero tolerance for safeguarding violations. Protection from all forms of abuse is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct. All staff must ensure that they understand and act following this clause. Successful candidates will be asked to bring Certificate of Good conduct from Crime Investigation Bureau.