Pakistan Job Openings
CARE International in Pakistan
MEAL Specialist (Emergency)
Bahund Sindh
August 22, 2024
Posted date
22nd August, 2024
Last date to apply
3rd September, 2024
Country
Pakistan
Locations
Sindh or Balochistan (TBN)
Category
Development Sector
Type
Contractual
Position
1
CARE is a leading global humanitarian and development organization. Since its establishment in 2005, CARE Pakistan (CP) has been at the forefront of responding to major disasters and implementing a wide range of development projects. CARE Pakistan operates through its local partners and engages with a variety of stakeholders, making collaboration a cornerstone of its work across the country.
Job Summary:
The MEAL Specialist will play a critical role in providing technical support to field teams, partners, and CP staff in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the MEAL system and tools. This position will be essential in adapting MEAL processes to respond effectively to emergencies, ensuring that real-time data is collected, analyzed, and utilized to inform decision-making in high pressure environments. The MEAL Specialist will also focus on assessing and building the capacity of internal staff and partner organizations, ensuring that robust monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning mechanisms are in place and functioning seamlessly. This role involves conducting timely and effective monitoring and evaluation, impact assessments, and field assessments to continuously improve project execution, ensuring that emergency response activities meet the highest quality standards. The incumbent will also be responsible for integrated implementation with other components of the interventions.
Key Responsibilities:
Job Summary:
The MEAL Specialist will play a critical role in providing technical support to field teams, partners, and CP staff in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the MEAL system and tools. This position will be essential in adapting MEAL processes to respond effectively to emergencies, ensuring that real-time data is collected, analyzed, and utilized to inform decision-making in high pressure environments. The MEAL Specialist will also focus on assessing and building the capacity of internal staff and partner organizations, ensuring that robust monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning mechanisms are in place and functioning seamlessly. This role involves conducting timely and effective monitoring and evaluation, impact assessments, and field assessments to continuously improve project execution, ensuring that emergency response activities meet the highest quality standards. The incumbent will also be responsible for integrated implementation with other components of the interventions.
Key Responsibilities:
1- Development of MEAL Systems, Tools and Processes (30%):
- In coordination with partners and as per donor requirements, set up a project M&E System that incorporates basic standards, including tools for designing, evaluating and assessing along with guidelines, including CARE International Principles, and other M&E relevant standards, systems and quality management processes.
- Guide the process for identifying and designing key indicators to record and report physical progress against the work plan.
- Ensure that the incorporated time frames are clarified and indicators and responsibilities are clear.
- Provide overall support, advice, and oversight on program-level monitoring and evaluation.
- Provide technical assistance in the development, selection, and application of M&E processes and tools;
- Assist in evaluating the methods and procedures used to obtain data for ensuring validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.
- Develop or adapt quality standards for project activities to assess the quality of implementation;
- Maintain and update action plan tracker with monitoring findings for course correction and follow ups.
- Supervise and constantly track all project activities, inputs, outputs and outcomes ensuring continued relevance to the project.
- Oversee the database development, data entry, data cleaning, verification, data analysis, and development of worksheets, tables, and table format, charts, and graphs.
- Work with partners in reviewing and analyzing project progress reports in terms of problems identified and actions required in accordance with approved reporting formats and deadlines.
- Document methodologies and procedures used in the compilation and analysis of data as well as data sources and limitations of estimates and guidelines for their use.
- Ensure that partner organizations have an effective Complaint Response Mechanism in place.
- Identify relationships and trends in data as well as any factors that could affect the results against key performance indicators in future.
- Conduct visits to implementing partner field offices periodically to assess progress toward achieving objectives, ensure program compliance and effective implementation according to work plans, M&E plans, and proposals; providing recommendations for improvement.
- Collaborate with partners and CP staff on quantitative and qualitative monitoring to provide relevant information for ongoing evaluation of project activities, effects, and impacts.
- Support the IP to collect case studies, success stories and share them with internal and external audiences.
- Review monitoring reports, analyze them for impact evaluation, and identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project implementation.
- Ensure regular submission of program performance reports based on their Performance management regulations and LFA.
- Assist the MEAL Manager in developing monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated data sheets and reports.
- Assist in conducting site verification visits.
- Plan and coordinate project reviews, evaluations to be conducted internally or externally as required by project M&E plan.
- Conduct beneficiary verification survey, Knowledge, Attitude and Practices survey, learning and satisfaction survey, tracer studies and post distribution monitoring of distribution activities.
- Build strong and functional accountability mechanisms and ensure that these are continuously monitored.
- Ensure data protection and confidentiality for protection and GBV cases.
- Maintain and update a complaints and response mechanism database for tracking feedback from communities and ensure that the feedback/complaints are responded to.
- Build capacity of other program staff to undertake accountability including ensuring participation of communities and sharing information with communities as well as undertake accountability assessments
- Ensure the Complaint Feedback Mechanism (CFM) are functional and accessible to beneficiaries.
- Develop regular trend analysis of complaints at organizational level and share these with program team as per protocols.
- Share all information (monitoring reports, CFM databases, preliminary verification reports, case studies etc.) With supervisor
- Share MEAL findings & CFM issues in each monthly meeting
- Ensure that the CFM guidelines are followed by all staff.
- Support team in implementation of country learning agenda through researches, learning workshops, secondary data review and other learning activities.
- Conduct comprehensive analysis of evaluation and research findings; provide summary of findings, learning and recommendations and share these with program staff.
- Take an active role in ensuring that staff are compliant in sharing the reports with the donors, member countries and with the relevant online system.
- Assist in maintaining learning and knowledge management system for the field office.
- Ensure the key learning’s are incorporated in upcoming plans and interventions.
4- Perform Other Duties as Assigned (5%):
Required
CARE participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we hereby request information from the candidate’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the candidate left employment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Note: Individuals can apply using Brightspyre or send their resumes directly to pakhr@care.org clearly mentioning the position title in the subject line of the email, before the stated deadline. Please share your current as well as salary expectations along with the CV.
- Undertake any additional tasks or responsibilities as required by the organization or the emergency situation.
- Ensure full compliance with CARE International’s Safety & Security Principles, recognizing that safety and security is everyone’s responsibility.
- QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Sociology, Development studies or related disciplines or equivalent;.
- Master’s degree in relevant field along with knowledge of statistical software i.e. SPSS, MS Access Database will be preferred.
- Minimum 5-8 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment, social science research, or a similar field, with a specific focus on WASH, FSL, Shelter.
- Experience of working in humanitarian response projects with National and International NGOs is required.
- Strong and Demonstrated experience of working with local partner organizations is required.
- Experience of working with international donors is required.
- Experience of working in a MEAL role under emergency response will be highly preferred.
Note: This position is conditional on the availability of funding. Further, this position will be for deployment in Sindh and/or Baluchistan with the exact duty station to be notified at the time of offer, depending upon the response location. Applications for this position will be screened and interviewed on a rolling basis.
CARE participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we hereby request information from the candidate’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the candidate left employment. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Note: Individuals can apply using Brightspyre or send their resumes directly to pakhr@care.org clearly mentioning the position title in the subject line of the email, before the stated deadline. Please share your current as well as salary expectations along with the CV.
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