Closing on 17th October 2023 | MEAL Officer Job Vacancy In Lamwo Uganda | IRC
- Request Number: req45773
- Name of Position: MEAL Officer
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Regular Category of Employment
- Type of Employment: Full-Time
- Open to Foreigners: Not Relevant
- Specifically, Lamwo, Uganda
- Workplace Setting:
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responsibilities and obligations
Partnership and Leadership
- Promote high standards and procedures for reliable data collection, analysis, and reports; support all technical MEAL components and actions relating to the WPE and PRoL respond to program demands. Allow for accountability to funders, partners, and clients.
- In your areas of expertise, implement and support the MEAL system and techniques to promote learning.
- Build partnerships inside IRC and in your field of expertise while representing IRC at technical meetings, forums, and other events.
- Encourage the use of data for data-informed programmatic changes, shared learning, and sound decision-making.
Technical Control
Evaluation and Monitoring
- Throughout the project cycle, run the MEAL system and processes for WPE and PRoL in accordance with the MEAL Country and Global Strategies, which include:
- Ensure that data is gathered, compiled, and quality and completeness checked in accordance with IRC and donor requirements for data quality by working with MEAL and non-MEAL workers.
- Learn from past projects and share that knowledge with others to help with project proposal design.
- Implement M&E/MEAL strategies, update data visualization, update processes for online data administration, conduct quality checks and audits, and revise (digital) data gathering instruments.
- Work closely with program officers and managers to enable decision-making for in-the-moment program modification by conducting routine analyses of monitoring data.
- Create high-quality reports and regularly update dashboards with significant findings to share in team meetings and project cycle management meetings in order to promote learning and decision-making.
- To enhance services and outcomes for our clients, we must gather, record, and exchange customer feedback.
- In collaboration with colleagues and partners, support the implementation of surveys such as baseline and end line, as well as the hiring of evaluators.
- In order to improve the timeliness and quality of data gathering, processing, and visualization, support the use of standard mobile data technology and web dashboards.
- Become a part of and support IRC’s efforts to fulfill its internal and external accountability goals by putting effective accountability, client feedback, and response systems in place.
Responsibility and education.
Accountability
- Support the documenting of client input and follow up on client-raised issues in close coordination with the MEAL manager, AAP officers, and the project team to close the feedback loop.
- By regularly entering feedback information into the online client Feedback Registry (CFR), you can keep your client feedback database current.
- In collaboration with the MEAL manager, analyze client feedback data and distribute monthly reports to the program team in order to inform strategic and programmatic decisions and course correction.
- Initiate on-site talks about the creation and execution of action plans that are the outcome of reviewing and analyzing customer feedback data.
- Build the project team’s capabilities by providing training, mentoring, and onsite assistance on customer responsiveness and accountability.
- Support the creation of informational briefs, posters, and brochures about client responsiveness and accountability, as well as their distribution to the appropriate stakeholders, partners, and clients.
Learning.
- Document and share learning – Through data collecting and sharing, make sure requirements, lessons learned, data trends, and best practices for products, events, and other knowledge management activities are properly documented and shared on a regular basis (at least quarterly).
- Increase the program assistants’ ability to provide data and knowledge products.
People Resources
- Organize, guide, and mentor the M&E/MEAL Assistant(s); promote prompt and effective performance as well as an inclusive and courteous team environment.
- Encourage the growth and development of people in IRC teams and partners by providing partners, coworkers, and junior staff with top-notch technical learning resources.
- Participate in the hiring and orientation of enumerators, field incentive workers, and M&E/MEAL assistants.
Qualifications
- a university degree in a discipline that is pertinent to project management or monitoring and evaluation, such as statistics, business statistics, demography, economics, or the social sciences.
- a minimum of one year’s worth of work experience in a position relevant to rule of law and GBV protection.
- Having prior experience with GBV IMS (PRIMERO) will be advantageous.
- In some or all of the following areas: outputs, outcome monitoring; theories of change; logical frameworks; data collecting; basic data analysis; accountability; and client feedback mechanisms, possess a basic technical understanding of M&E approaches and techniques.
- knowledge of gathering and entering primary quantitative data.
- Knowledge of Tableau, PowerBi, or GIS software tools, as well as some expertise with mobile data gathering solutions like Kobo, CommCare, or ODK Collect, are added assets.
- Excellent computer abilities in Word and Excel, especially, and expertise writing reports.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with good planning, organization, and analytical skills, such as the ability to prioritize tasks, multitask, and pay close attention to detail.
- flexibility, as well as the capacity to perform under pressure and in settings that are continuously changing.
- Analytical, methodical, and problem-solving abilities that have been demonstrated are unquestionably advantages.
- having a solid grasp of accountability and having built client feedback systems
- Please be aware that the application deadline is October 17, 2023.
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