Action Against Hunger is an international non-governmental organization working in more than 40 countries in the fields of nutrition, food security and livelihoods, water sanitation and hygiene, and care practices. Action Against Hunger is looking for its program in Jordan MEAL Senior Officer– MEAL Dept. IRBID.

Specific Objective: The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Senior Officer will ensure quality and accountability standards are integrated into Action Against Hunger’s programme in Irbid. The MEAL Senior Officer will have a key role in establishing and promoting use of MEAL systems to ensure that our programme staff and strategies are effective and respond to the needs identified by the programme.

Objective 1: Facilitate the collection of data on the impacts of the project
Activities:
• In coordination with line manager develop a suitable MEAL framework/plan that guides all MEAL work in the project, in line with the LFA;
• Develop and adapt suitable tools to be used for M&E purposes to collect relevant and reliable information;
• Set up suitable systems to manage information generated by MEAL activities;
• Support the organization of needs assessments, in coordination with relevant partners;
• Support planning, implementation and follow-up of activities and exercises;
• Ensure MEAL staff has sufficient resources to undertake their work;
• Provide quality assurance on the data collected by project staff.

Objective 2: Data Management
• Check the quality of the data to be entered and report to the MEAL Manager if any problems encountered;
• Evaluate the time required to process data and provide feedback on progress during processing;
• Enter data into the specialized software using consistent formatting;
• Check the data entered, detect missing, redundant data and propose possible improvements;
• Assist the MEAL Manager with database quality control and inform him/her of any technical problems;
• File questionnaires and IT data in an organized manner accessible to all (clear file names, well-organized etc.)
• Gather the elements required for the analysis of data, cross check and report results.

Objective 3: Provide sufficient and reliable information to guide programme development
• Provide relevant, accurate and timely information to the MEAL Manager and programme staff as requested;
• Provide suggestions to the MEAL manager and program team on how to improve the MEAL system in the project;
• Conduct simple data analysis and present and disseminate information to inform program management;
• Submit all required reports, especially monitoring field visit reports.

Objective 4: Quality assurance
• Run periodic spot checks on the activities within the project area;
• Debrief field teams and project manager and report to the MEAL Manager the outcomes of the spot check to allow for improvements;
• Support in implementing feedback and complaint mechanism when conducting MEAL exercises;
• Report on the feedback and complaint mechanism to the FCM & Referral Clerk for follow up.

Objective 5: Capacity building
• In coordination with the assessment supervisor, deliver training and organize other capacity building activities for project staff on MEAL and selected cross-cutting themes;
• Orient program team on MEAL roles and responsibilities;
• Assist MEAL Manager and assessment supervisor in delivering Capacity building activities related to data collection and use of ODK and KOBO tools;
• Provide technical support to programme team and other bases in designing data collection tools using ODK/KOBO;
• Provide ad-hoc backstopping support to other programme teams and other bases for ODK/KOBO and data related issues/problems;
• Orient programme team in exploring, and expending the use of KOBO and GIS applications in programme/MEAL interventions;
• Develop work plans (Weekly and or Monthly as and when required);
• Provide any additional support requested by MEAL Manager.

Reporting Requirements:
• Generate all required reports and data/data analysis of monitoring, PDMs, spot-checks.
• Prepare monthly report of the tasks completed by MEAL in Irbid
• Matrices, tables, graphs
• Support in completing the monthly Activity Progress Reports (APRs) with MEAL Manager
• Any other report related to MEAL/MEAL intervention.

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