Senior Meal Officer – Afar, International Medical Corps (IMC) Vacancy Announcement

Under the supervision of the Field Coordinator, the Senior MEAL officer will be responsible for assisting in the development and roll-out of tools for effective management of data across all technical sectors. He/She will be the field focal point to assist technical managers in data management, surveys, and assessments. Manage, monitor, and support trucking program performance and create a learning environment. The Senior MEAL officer is expected to consolidate and analyze data on a routine basis, ensuring that verifiable data is gathered, and meaningful conclusions can be reached from that data.

Assessments, Surveys, and Evaluations

• Provide technical support on methodology and implementation to sectors conducting surveys
• Develop survey or evaluation TOR and coordinate the implementation.
• Review survey questionnaires for relevancy and potential bias
• Analyze survey data for potential errors
• Review all survey reports prepared to ensure data relevance and consistency
• Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high quality data collection
• Timely plan and initiate all pre and post intervention assessments and surveys
• For internal evaluations coordinate necessary staff and resources to conduct evaluation
• Review all evaluation reports prepared to ensure data relevance and consistency
• Together with the relevant field team always undertake Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) whenever or wherever there is distribution to beneficiaries. And report back the findings with photos on regular basis.                                        

Data Management

• Support in piloting and management of the DHIS2 database to improve monitoring and data management within the organization.
• Build capacity of staff through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected.
• Regularly review data received from field offices to ensure correct usage and quality of data management systems.

Beneficiary Accountability

• Together with the country senior M&E officer, field office managers and other relevant staff’s setup beneficiary complaint handling committee at field office level.
• Facilitate the responses to the feedback/complaints raised by beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
• Ensure the complaints raised by the beneficiaries and action taken are appropriately documented into the logbook using the form for this purpose and reported to the country office
• Provide a compiled report on the process, findings, and challenges of the beneficiary complaint handling mechanism on monthly basis to his/her supervisor.
•  Always involved in drafting beneficiary selection criteria for distribution and monitoring the distribution is done based on these criteria.
• Make sure that beneficiaries are aware of the precise quantity and quality of items they are supposed to receive so that they can identify when there is a problem by providing clear and appropriate information to them based on the information sharing guideline.
• If required provide training to the field staff on beneficiary accountability focusing on CHS, Sphere standards, and others.
• In collaboration with other relevant staff conduct regular satisfaction assessments of the beneficiaries using innovative methodologies such as the Listen Learn Act (LLA) or other forms of qualitative assessment; FGDs or KII and report back to the field office manager and country MEAL team.

Networking

• Attending field-level coordination forums (M&E) when delegated by the line supervisor and ensuring strong representation of IMC and updating IMC program & management staff on the issues.
• Keep abreast of new M and E tools and approaches and share them to the IMC Ethiopia staff.

Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

As applicable to this position, an individual must promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the organization and maintain a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Staff are also responsible for preventing violations to our Code of Conduct and Ethics, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption or Harassment.  If you see, hear or are made aware of any violations to the Code of Conduct and Ethics or Safeguarding Policy, you have an obligation to report.