Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI) is an international Italian NGO established in 1965. Since its establishment, COOPI has been undertaking activities to help and empower the poor and needy in different countries. COOPI Ethiopia started its operation in 1995 and has been primarily implementing emergency, relief and early recovery programs in water hygiene and sanitation, food security and livelihood, nutrition and protection sectors.

COOPI is currently implementing 10 projects in Ethiopia focusing on WASH and Livelihood managing 7 field bases and a staff of over 100 employees.

COOPI is looking for qualified and competent MEAL Coordinator to be based in Addis Ababa.

Position: MEAL Coordinator

• Number required: One (1)   

• Duty Station: Addis Ababa

Duties and Responsibilities:

Key Activities/Responsibilities

Planning and training

·         Develop and maintain efficient and effective programmatic systems and ensure fulfilment with all COOPI MEAL and program quality standards.

·         Develop and manage strong internal systems for monitoring project performances for COOPI Ethiopia projects.

·         Conduct training needs assessment (TNA) and identify training needs for technical staff and ensure building the capacity of relevant COOPI program and technical staff.

·         Participate actively in program planning process and budgeting with advisory group, HOM and Programs Coordinator.

·         Develop Detail Implementation Plans (DIPs) for all projects in collaboration with PMs and Programs Coordinator and support in grants opening meetings.

·         In coordination with the PMs, facilitate the conduction of the launching workshops for all new projects

·         Conduct MEAL training to the PMs on the COOPI’s MEAL Guidelines and Tools

·         Develop project monitoring plan (PMP) of all projects, based on the COOPI’s MEAL Guidelines and Tools.

·         Develop and use different MEAL Tools and formats based on the contexts and under the umbrella of the COOPI’s Guidelines.

·         Revises the KPIs at Country level in collaboration with the Head of Programs (HoP), Area Coordinator and Emergency Response Lead (ERL).

·         Collects and compiles KPIs data and reports to HQ focal person

Reporting

·         Monitor progresses against detailed activities and budget plans with technical teams, ensuring that objectives and indicators are achieved.

·         Prepare and review weekly, monthly, quarterly, interim and final reports incorporating activities and financial progresses for project work across each COOPI Ethiopia project.

·         Oversee delivery of different technical components of the project, with a focus on keeping activities on track for completion and ensuring adequate technical support is provided to activities.

·         Organize and manage data collection for baseline and endline of all COOPI projects, monitoring and evaluation.

·         Ensure the accuracy of all quantitative and qualitative reporting to government line departments, Donors, COOPI Head Quarter, and other external audiences.

·         Ensure timely and accurate program data collections, data verifications, and data reporting according to program needs and donor requirements.

·         Organize data collection with adequate software like Kobo

·         Analyze qualitative and quantitative data through software such as SPSS and/or STATA

·         Present MEAL findings to the SMT for decision making

·         Disseminate findings from the MEAL reports to the internal and external audiences (program and technical staff, consortium partners and the donors).

·         Document MEAL data for lessons and recommend future programming.

External Coordination

·         Participate in different consortium meetings through delegation from the HoP and Head of Mission (HoM).

·         Ensure that effective engagement is maintained with communities and with local government partners, to ensure responsive and sustainable programming.

·         Responsible for cataloguing and organizing strategic information for all COOPI programs and technical areas, and facilitating the free sharing and access of strategic and technical information internally.

·         Responsible for designing and integrating to COOPI strategic planning development.

·         Support the program coordinator to approve project grants at regional level

·         Collaborate with the PMs to facilitate the organization of internal and donors meetings to the project sites, liaising with HoP, Area Coordinator, ERL and HoM

·         Collaborate with the PMs to prepare and meet with donors visiting the sites of implementation

·         Provide inputs to the SMT in the definition of the country strategy within SMT meeting

·         Ensure an active participation in relevant technical working group monthly meetings for WASH,NFI/ES,ATF/DRM, Food Cluster, etc., as assigned by the Program Coordinator, Program Advisors and HOM and share key points

·         Present INGO global best practices and methodologies in monitoring and evaluation aspect.

·         Liaise with donors and partners for all projects when requested

Project development

·         Contribute in scoping and writing new project concept notes and proposals for all sectors

·         Develop SMART indicators and Logframes for all new projects  in close working relationship with HoP, ERL and Area Coordinator.

·         Share project ideas and concepts as deemed useful, propose written innovative actions in the area of intervention.

·         Review and support the collection of information from the area of intervention (Zone, Woredas and Kebele, community, local partners, NGOs, etc.), liaise with the program coordinator and PMs.

·         Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisors.

Job Requirements

Qualification and Experience

Essential:

·         Advanced university degree/MSC in Statistics, Demography and relevant field.

·         At least 10 years of professional work experience in humanitarian and/or development contexts.

·         Previous experience working in INGO.

·         Experience facilitating relationships between Nongovernmental organization and government.

·         Ability to work well within a team and take responsibility to deliver results.

·         Fluency in written and spoken English, Amharic and knowledge of another local language is an advantage

·         Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

·         Respect culture; believe of diverse ethnic and traditional set up.

·         Excellent knowledge of Excel, SPSS, STATA, R and other software of data analysis

Preferred:

·         Experience in liaising with governmental/local authorities, IOs and NGOs.

·         Demonstrated ability to work in stressful environments and under pressure

·         Good knowledge of GIS will be considered a plu

Application Deadline: December 21, 2023

Salary: Based on Organization Salary Scale.

Duration of the contract: Six months

Duty starting date: As soon as possible

How to Apply

Interested applicants should submit the following non-returnable documents:

·      Cover Letter

·      Updated Curriculum Vitae via THIS LINK

·      Please submit a copy of your document and COOPI will not take any responsibility for the loss of any original document.

·         Please write position name that you apply for in the subject of email.

·         Please do not forget to specify the location of interest on the cover letter.

Only short-listed candidates who meet the requirements will be contacted.

COOPI is committed to promoting diversity and gender equality within the Organization. Women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.