Senior MEAL Officer at ACTED

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for the development and the implementation of appropriate and viable Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems that are in line with the ACTED’s global MEAL procedures and contributing to ensuring that ACTED’s projects and programs perform as planned. Appraisal, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Technical and Systems Development

• Contribute to the development and updating of the country MEAL strategy, the consolidated MEAL work plan and MEAL frameworks for all ongoing projects;

• Ensure that MEAL findings are reflected and their recommendations are incorporated in future concept notes, proposals and implementation plans;

• Implement the MEAL policies and procedures as described in the ACTED MEAL standard guidelines and make sure that the tools are followed as applicable.

• Contribute to an effective roll-out of M&E collection and reporting systems to all staff and partners through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed.

MEAL Implementation and Management

• Develop the ToRs and mission plans and carry out assessments, monitoring and evaluations (baselines, mid-terms, endlines) as reflected in the ToR and mission plan;

• Develop and oversee the implementation of appropriate data collection and analysis instruments, methodologies (e.g. survey questionnaires, focus group discussions, key-informant interviews) and data/information dissemination/utilization plans;

• Closely supervise data collection activities and ensure that data collection teams are organized and resourced as needed, and that they deliver as per field mission plans and according to data quality standards;

• Maintain electronic and/or paper-based MIS systems for tracking and reporting all quantitative data and information including reporting on ACTED’s 16 global strategic program indicators;

• Analyze MEAL data and produce reports, factsheets with useful statistical analysis and presentation (charts, tables, histograms, box plots) as necessary in a timely manner;

• Measure and report on qualitative and quantitative input, process, output, outcome, impact, objective, and goal-level performance indicators for all projects;

• Provide data to the Project Development Team for use in preparation of reports to donors and other stakeholders, as required;

• Contribute to donor proposals and fundraising efforts (particularly logical-framework designs, formulation of SMART indicators and MEAL budgets) and reports;

• Provide MEAL related capacity building and awareness to implementing partners and other institutions supported by ACTED as appropriate;

• Represent ACTED in different forums on MEAL related issues when required.

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