ABOUT THE JOB
ABOUT THE JOB
ABOUT THE JOB
The MEAL Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes (HoP), Area Managers, Area Program Managers, and technical units to strengthen DRC Afghanistan’s monitoring, evaluation, learning, and accountability systems. Ensuring that the country office is compliant with Core Humanitarian standards 4 (Humanitarian response is based on communication, participation and feedback), 5 (Complaints are welcomed and addressed) and 7 (Humanitarian actors continuously learn and improve). The position is responsible for feeding into strategic decisions and program design based on the evidence and outcomes of ongoing monitoring and evaluation work. The MEAL Manager will also provide technical guidance and capacity building to implementing partners.
The MEAL Manager will work closely with the Head of Programmes (HoP), Area Managers, Area Program Managers, and technical units to strengthen DRC Afghanistan’s monitoring, evaluation, learning, and accountability systems. Ensuring that the country office is compliant with Core Humanitarian standards 4 (Humanitarian response is based on communication, participation and feedback), 5 (Complaints are welcomed and addressed) and 7 (Humanitarian actors continuously learn and improve). The position is responsible for feeding into strategic decisions and program design based on the evidence and outcomes of ongoing monitoring and evaluation work. The MEAL Manager will also provide technical guidance and capacity building to implementing partners.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
CO MEAL capacities and commitments
CO MEAL capacities and commitments
CO MEAL capacities and commitments
- Develop and strengthen DRC’s MEAL team/department including coordinating recruitments, capacity building and performance management
- Ensure that DRC MEAL guidance is understood and adhered to, completing the annual compliance check, and ensuring areas of weakness are addressed
- Liaise with the HQ and regional MEAL focal points to ensure compliance and understanding with all global standards
- Apply DRC guidance for MEAL and division of labour, particularly vis-à-vis programme staff, and foster collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders within the area of responsibility
- Create a MEAL strategy in line with country needs and best MEAL practices, with practical guidelines which can be used and followed by the team and non-MEAL specialists
- Ensure resources for MEAL are appropriately budgeted in proposal, including for both country office and area offices, including by providing guidance to the area office team on minimum staffing and resources required for the implementation of high quality MEAL activities
- Ensure all projects have adequate MEAL budget for effective MEAL work, and prioritizing spend according to core needs
- Establish and maintain processes and protocols for data protection, storage, sharing, and security in the area of responsibility and work with relevant staff to ensure these are mainstreamed across country operations
Develop and strengthen DRC’s MEAL team/department including coordinating recruitments, capacity building and performance management
Develop and strengthen DRC’s MEAL team/department including coordinating recruitments, capacity building and performance management
Ensure that DRC MEAL guidance is understood and adhered to, completing the annual compliance check, and ensuring areas of weakness are addressed
Ensure that DRC MEAL guidance is understood and adhered to, completing the annual compliance check, and ensuring areas of weakness are addressed
Liaise with the HQ and regional MEAL focal points to ensure compliance and understanding with all global standards
Liaise with the HQ and regional MEAL focal points to ensure compliance and understanding with all global standards
Apply DRC guidance for MEAL and division of labour, particularly vis-à-vis programme staff, and foster collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders within the area of responsibility
Apply DRC guidance for MEAL and division of labour, particularly vis-à-vis programme staff, and foster collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders within the area of responsibility
Create a MEAL strategy in line with country needs and best MEAL practices, with practical guidelines which can be used and followed by the team and non-MEAL specialists
Create a MEAL strategy in line with country needs and best MEAL practices, with practical guidelines which can be used and followed by the team and non-MEAL specialists
Ensure resources for MEAL are appropriately budgeted in proposal, including for both country office and area offices, including by providing guidance to the area office team on minimum staffing and resources required for the implementation of high quality MEAL activities
Ensure resources for MEAL are appropriately budgeted in proposal, including for both country office and area offices, including by providing guidance to the area office team on minimum staffing and resources required for the implementation of high quality MEAL activities
Ensure all projects have adequate MEAL budget for effective MEAL work, and prioritizing spend according to core needs
Ensure all projects have adequate MEAL budget for effective MEAL work, and prioritizing spend according to core needs
Establish and maintain processes and protocols for data protection, storage, sharing, and security in the area of responsibility and work with relevant staff to ensure these are mainstreamed across country operations
Establish and maintain processes and protocols for data protection, storage, sharing, and security in the area of responsibility and work with relevant staff to ensure these are mainstreamed across country operations
Results Monitoring and programme quality support
Results Monitoring and programme quality support
Results Monitoring and programme quality support
- Engage throughout project development and assist the Programme Support Unit in developing strong indicators and logical frameworks for new projects
- Support in the creation of project, programme and country based logframes and M&E plans, ensuring that indicators are SMART
- Coordinate with field staff to develop or standardize tools and methods to improve data collection for monitoring and evaluation
- Support programme and grants team in grants management tools developed to collect information and track achievements against indicators. Support team to use these tools on all project activity levels (Excel, SPSS, ODK, SurveyCTO…)
- Provide technical support and trainings to all MEAL staff, including advising on data collection processes, analyses, and report writing
- Guide the regular sharing of the outputs and the M&E findings with project staff and implementing partners
- Train and support field staff on data management and data quality assurance. Provide suggestions for information management solutions, including design, key features, user interfaces, automatic analysis, data mining and automated reports
- Review and finalise data collection tools, such as surveys and questionnaires developed by the MEAL team
- Collate all project indicators and support Technical Coordinators to use pre-agreed indicators for core areas of work
- Participate in project Kick-off meetings, Grant Review meetings and Close-out meetings in order to present on achievements as reflected in the IPTT and highlight cross-project components aimed at replicating good practices and strengthening synergies between projects or programmes
Engage throughout project development and assist the Programme Support Unit in developing strong indicators and logical frameworks for new projects
Engage throughout project development and assist the Programme Support Unit in developing strong indicators and logical frameworks for new projects
Support in the creation of project, programme and country based logframes and M&E plans, ensuring that indicators are SMART
Support in the creation of project, programme and country based logframes and M&E plans, ensuring that indicators are SMART
Coordinate with field staff to develop or standardize tools and methods to improve data collection for monitoring and evaluation
Coordinate with field staff to develop or standardize tools and methods to improve data collection for monitoring and evaluation
Support programme and grants team in grants management tools developed to collect information and track achievements against indicators. Support team to use these tools on all project activity levels (Excel, SPSS, ODK, SurveyCTO…)
Support programme and grants team in grants management tools developed to collect information and track achievements against indicators. Support team to use these tools on all project activity levels (Excel, SPSS, ODK, SurveyCTO…)
Provide technical support and trainings to all MEAL staff, including advising on data collection processes, analyses, and report writing
Provide technical support and trainings to all MEAL staff, including advising on data collection processes, analyses, and report writing
Guide the regular sharing of the outputs and the M&E findings with project staff and implementing partners
Guide the regular sharing of the outputs and the M&E findings with project staff and implementing partners
Train and support field staff on data management and data quality assurance. Provide suggestions for information management solutions, including design, key features, user interfaces, automatic analysis, data mining and automated reports
Train and support field staff on data management and data quality assurance. Provide suggestions for information management solutions, including design, key features, user interfaces, automatic analysis, data mining and automated reports
Review and finalise data collection tools, such as surveys and questionnaires developed by the MEAL team
Review and finalise data collection tools, such as surveys and questionnaires developed by the MEAL team
Collate all project indicators and support Technical Coordinators to use pre-agreed indicators for core areas of work
Collate all project indicators and support Technical Coordinators to use pre-agreed indicators for core areas of work
Participate in project Kick-off meetings, Grant Review meetings and Close-out meetings in order to present on achievements as reflected in the IPTT and highlight cross-project components aimed at replicating good practices and strengthening synergies between projects or programmes
Participate in project Kick-off meetings, Grant Review meetings and Close-out meetings in order to present on achievements as reflected in the IPTT and highlight cross-project components aimed at replicating good practices and strengthening synergies between projects or programmes
Accountability
Accountability
Accountability
- Coordinate the design and implementation of accountability systems for DRC projects working closely with Area Managers and Technical Coordinators
- Guide the compilation, analysis, and regular sharing of trends in feedback and complainst received with the Senior Management Team and relevant management staff
- Build the capacity of staff to plan and implement effective accountability systems for the country programme and ensure sufficient ongoing refresher trainings for staff country wide
- Strengthen the country program’s Community Feedback Mechanism and set-up new systems as the program extends to new geographical areas
- Identify, plan for and implement different mechanisms for community engagement and feedback in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning in the area of responsibility
- Act as organisational focal point on Core Humanitarian Standards, ensuring local compliance and reviews across all standards and supervise the annual or biannual CHS self-assessment and prepare the resulting accountability improvement plan (AIP)
- Liaising with regional colleagues responsible for accountability, compliance and risk management
Coordinate the design and implementation of accountability systems for DRC projects working closely with Area Managers and Technical Coordinators
Coordinate the design and implementation of accountability systems for DRC projects working closely with Area Managers and Technical Coordinators
Guide the compilation, analysis, and regular sharing of trends in feedback and complainst received with the Senior Management Team and relevant management staff
Guide the compilation, analysis, and regular sharing of trends in feedback and complainst received with the Senior Management Team and relevant management staff
Build the capacity of staff to plan and implement effective accountability systems for the country programme and ensure sufficient ongoing refresher trainings for staff country wide
Build the capacity of staff to plan and implement effective accountability systems for the country programme and ensure sufficient ongoing refresher trainings for staff country wide
Strengthen the country program’s Community Feedback Mechanism and set-up new systems as the program extends to new geographical areas
Strengthen the country program’s Community Feedback Mechanism and set-up new systems as the program extends to new geographical areas
Identify, plan for and implement different mechanisms for community engagement and feedback in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning in the area of responsibility
Identify, plan for and implement different mechanisms for community engagement and feedback in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning in the area of responsibility
Act as organisational focal point on Core Humanitarian Standards, ensuring local compliance and reviews across all standards and supervise the annual or biannual CHS self-assessment and prepare the resulting accountability improvement plan (AIP)
Act as organisational focal point on Core Humanitarian Standards, ensuring local compliance and reviews across all standards and supervise the annual or biannual CHS self-assessment and prepare the resulting accountability improvement plan (AIP)
Liaising with regional colleagues responsible for accountability, compliance and risk management
Liaising with regional colleagues responsible for accountability, compliance and risk management
Evaluation, analysis and learning
Evaluation, analysis and learning
Evaluation, analysis and learning
- In coordination with program and technical managers, support design and implemention of needs assessments and conflict analyses within the areas of intervention to support the evidence-based design of programming
- Lead and contribute (as apropriate) to analysis, evaluation, and research for data-driven evidence generation and use in the area of responsibility
- Act as a donor focal point for MEAL components of projects
- Lead on internal evaluations, and supervise consultants implementing external evaluations
- Regularly present key M&E findings to Country Office and Area Offices teams to ensure learnings and to inform strategies
- Support DRC’s aim for further strengthen integrated programming and actively propose ways of achieving this using MEAL findings
- Provide capacity building to MEAL and non-MEAL staff in key areas of project planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, Qualitative and Quantitative research techniques and analysis
- Support utilisation of results for better planning and decision making; translate MEAL findings into organisational learning; plan and implement learning events and design appropriate learning products
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- Perform other duties as directed by the Head of Programmes.
In coordination with program and technical managers, support design and implemention of needs assessments and conflict analyses within the areas of intervention to support the evidence-based design of programming
In coordination with program and technical managers, support design and implemention of needs assessments and conflict analyses within the areas of intervention to support the evidence-based design of programming
Lead and contribute (as apropriate) to analysis, evaluation, and research for data-driven evidence generation and use in the area of responsibility
Lead and contribute (as apropriate) to analysis, evaluation, and research for data-driven evidence generation and use in the area of responsibility
Act as a donor focal point for MEAL components of projects
Act as a donor focal point for MEAL components of projects
Lead on internal evaluations, and supervise consultants implementing external evaluations
Lead on internal evaluations, and supervise consultants implementing external evaluations
Regularly present key M&E findings to Country Office and Area Offices teams to ensure learnings and to inform strategies
Regularly present key M&E findings to Country Office and Area Offices teams to ensure learnings and to inform strategies
Support DRC’s aim for further strengthen integrated programming and actively propose ways of achieving this using MEAL findings
Support DRC’s aim for further strengthen integrated programming and actively propose ways of achieving this using MEAL findings
Provide capacity building to MEAL and non-MEAL staff in key areas of project planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, Qualitative and Quantitative research techniques and analysis
Provide capacity building to MEAL and non-MEAL staff in key areas of project planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, Qualitative and Quantitative research techniques and analysis
Support utilisation of results for better planning and decision making; translate MEAL findings into organisational learning; plan and implement learning events and design appropriate learning products
Support utilisation of results for better planning and decision making; translate MEAL findings into organisational learning; plan and implement learning events and design appropriate learning products
Perform other duties as directed by the Head of Programmes.
Perform other duties as directed by the Head of Programmes.
