TEAM/PROGRAMME: MEAL  

LOCATION:  Hawassa

GRADE:  3B

Number of Position: 1

POST TYPE: National

The Organization

  We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

 We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

 We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued

Child Safeguarding   Level 3 - The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:  

Under the direct supervision of the Field Office Manager, the MEAL Coordinator will support all Hawassa Field Office Awards MEAL-related activities with quality and accountability. Detail areas of role and responsibilities would be MEAL Coordinator for Hawassa Field Office as a general, which will be implemented in Save the Children Hawassa Field Office.  He/she will be responsible for ensuring that the delivery of the programs is in line with the SC MEAL approach/standards, Donor requirements, SC MEAL Framework, and specific programmatic approaches. He/she will ensure & and strengthen that a strong MEAL system is in place so that the implementation of the programs is of high quality to be accountable to beneficiaries, partners, and donors. He /She will play people development roles (MEAL Officer)

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Field Office Manager and Area office MEAL Manager

Staff reporting to this post:   MEAL Officer

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement a work plan for rolling out the MEAL system at the program and Field Office levels.

• Provide technical support to MEAL Officers and Program staff on developing and implementing M&E plans.

• Support program staff to collect good quality monitoring data promptly and collate/organize data received for reporting to the Project Office.

• Closely work with the MEAL team at SCI CO, CO TA,  South Area Office MEAL Manager, Program managers, and FO-level MEAL staff on the design and roll-out of standardized monitoring tools and methodologies.

• Provide technical assistance and capacity building for program staff and partners’ staff on the development and use of MEAL tools and methodologies.

• Ensure that regular reports are generated from monitoring data and that findings are communicated effectively to appropriate persons and units.

• Conduct qualitative M&E (against international standards through participatory methodologies (including child-friendly methodologies).

• Support and participate as required in all other aspects of MEAL, for example, surveys, baselines, evaluations, joint projects monitoring, and reviews/lessons learning workshops/events.

• Implement accountability activities, including the development and use of information materials and the establishment of a pilot complaints response mechanism. This may include the management of an Accountability Assistant, ensuring that complaints are logged and addressed in a professional and timely manner and that serious complaints relating to abuse, exploitation, and corruption and referred to appropriately.

• Provide inductions to new staff on MEAL and work with all staff in the organization to increase capacity in Accountability through training and direct support.

• Promote learning throughout the area office, particularly on issues of program quality and accountability.

• Regularly produce and report on best practices and case studies; ensure new analysis and information are available, including for the forthcoming communications strategy.

• Ensure that children, women, and other vulnerable community members are included in all MEAL activities.

• Supporting Filed Office with quality and timely donor, government, and internal report organizing

• Being an FO SMT member will assist the head of the field office in Organizing the monthly and ad-hock meetings.

• Coordinating need assessment, developing response plans, attending cluster meetings, and liaising with Health, ESNFI, and WASH cluster partners for the SWAN consortium project activities/presence.

• Generating lessons learned (Program case story and success stories), and ACCM with FO, AO, and CO team.

• Led staff on rapid and contextual needs assessment.

• Providing of effective communication vertically and horizontally

• Capturing and storing program quality data, generating information for impacts 

Reporting Requirement

• Preparing quality and timely FO MEAL reports to Field Office Manager and Area Office MEAL Manager, CO MEAL unit on demand, and detailing all MEAL activities.

Job Requirements

Essential

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in MEAL and preferably in the INGO environment, including significant field operations experience running both development and emergency programs.

• BA Degree or equivalent in MEAL, statistics, Development Studies, or other related fields.

• Field-level experience in Humanitarian for INGOs in international development and emergency programs

• Knowledge of key institutional donors and their compliance requirements concerning the MEAL system

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching. 

• Experience in solving complex issues through analysis, the definition of a clear way forward, and ensuring quality and accountability.

• Commitment to Save the Children values.

• Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including traveling at short notice and for extended periods.

• Highly organized with good administration skills for order and information management, able to develop filing systems.

• Ability to use updated software applications and databases to analyze and intemperate data for information.

• A high level of computer literacy (word, excel, PPT, etc)

Desirable

• Excellent communication & and interpersonal skill

• Computer skills, especially Microsoft Office

• Familiarity with contexts 

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.

• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same

• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters

• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency.

• Strong training skill

• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

• Fluency in written and spoken English.

• Commitment to Save the Children values.

• Teams, in the event of emergencies

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector.

How to Apply

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations online using THIS LINK

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.