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MEAL Coordinator

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Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Full-time

To provide technical guidance to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) projects and programmes in terms of project planning, proposal development, assessment, monitoring, evaluation and humanitarian accountability in line with WV policies and standards; including maintaining systems to collect and analyze information on activities, outputs, outcomes and impact of projects and to ensure the uptake and streamlining of Humanitarian accountability standards (WV PAF and CHS).

Areas of Responsibility: 

Design:

  • Plan, implement, analyse and share findings from assessments and programme monitoring.
  • Support Program Officer to develop new projects based on response strategy, context and humanitarian needs.
  • Ensure the overall programme design incorporates international humanitarian standards and WV guidance and standards (i.e. Sphere, DADDs, CWBOs, PAF, etc.)
  • Ensure that new proposals have adequate MEAL budgets in place and that appropriate plans have been made for staffing.
  • Ensure that all new proposals have quality logframes with SMART indicators.

Monitoring:

  • Support the implementation of the programme monitoring system.
  • Ensure that all projects are monitored as per donor standards.

Evaluation:

  • Plan and manage baselines, evaluations and reviews.

Accountability:

  • Coordinate with DME and Operations to ensure beneficiary skills, capacities and conflict risks are included in assessments and consultation processes.
  • Coordinate with DME and Programmes to ensure proposals, logframes and design documents include community engagement, including the participation of the most vulnerable and aim to increase local capacity.
  • Develop and support implementation of community consultation and information provision mechanisms.
  • Orient and train response staff on international standards and their application.
  • Coordinate Humanitarian Accountability planning and learning with other accountability focused INGOs and LNGOs.
  • Inform communities regarding their right to be consulted, make complaints and provide feedback to World Vision.
  • Design complaint and feedback methods based on community preferences obtained through a consultation process.
  • Document, implement and monitor complaint and feedback systems to ensure timely responses to communities.
  • Consolidate and analyse community complaint information to inform Operations and response management of key issues raised by beneficiaries.
  • Participate in local Accountability and Learning groups to ensure collaboration and coordinate Humanitarian Accountability approaches.

People Management:

  • Provide guidance to other MEAL team members.
  • Create team workplans and ensure that MEAL framework and calendar are updated.
  • Assign MEAL team members to projects.
Educational Background: 
University degree.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Minimum of five years of work experience in humanitarian programming. Experience in designing, monitoring, and evaluation methodologies is highly desirable.
  • Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods, including tracking outcome indicators, is desirable. Should have relevant field experience in development, monitoring and evaluation of community-based projects especially in a fragile context.
  • Knowledge of M&E issues with respect to service delivery and support related to Health and nutrition, Education, WASH, Livelihoods and/or capacity development is desirable. Experience in supporting Grants/HEA in World Vision setting would be an advantage.
  • Experience in designing M&E methodologies and tools, and the ability to coach and train others in their use is desirable.
  • This position requires a person who is self-starter, who can accomplish the task with minimal or no supervision. He/she should be able to manage a team of staff as well as cooperate with other units. He/she must be keen on details and well-organized individual.
  • Report writing, research, monitoring and evaluation.

Organization Info

World Vision

Overview
Headquarters: 
Federal Way, WA, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
1982
About Us
Mission: 

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so. World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Inspired by our Christian values, we are dedicated to working with the world's most vulnerable people. We serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

Our mission: World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Sep 13 2019
Active Until: 
Oct 14 2019
Hiring Organization: 
World Vision
industry: 
Nonprofit