MEAL Officer

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. 

IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 40 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, protection, environmental health, and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Baluchistan, and Sindh provinces.

Job Overview/Summary:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic and self-motivated individual for the position of Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Officer. The position will be based in Buner Office of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and will report to MEAL Manager, Islamabad.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support MEAL Manger in establishing and make functional an efficient and action-oriented MEAL system for the research project.
• Help the program team/leads in taking data-informed decisions based on monitoring data and findings.
• Support the Senior MEAL Manager to implement the MEAL plans and ensure real time analytics to guide the quality of the programme and implementation.
• Assist in developing analysis dashboards against project indicators at province, and district level.
• Ensure that data is collected and entered data management system on a regular basis.
• Validate data for completeness, correctness, consistency and follow up on any data quality issues.
• Review and develop appropriate formats, data collection tools and systems for monitoring and evaluating programs, assuring quality and managing data according to internal and international standards.
• In collaboration with the Senior MEAL Manager and Project teams, carry out regular participatory project monitoring as well as activities according to agreed systems, procedures and standards.
• Extend needful support to program teams to track progress of the project activities in line with the agreed output and outcome level performance indicators and beneficiary numbers using standardized formats and systems, to establish/maintain data storage and dissemination systems.
• Assist in the design, collection and analysis of data and information for assessments, surveys and evaluations as required by the MEAL and the program teams as per projects requirements.
• Conduct data quality assessments, audits, and support relevant teams in improved data management practices.
• Will represent MEAL during program review meetings and other events to share MEAL updates and/or making presentations if required.
• Facilitate program team to develop and adopt quality standards for their program interventions and ensure the placement of these standards.
• Ensure robust mechanism for process, output and joint outcome monitoring of project interventions.
• Lead surveys and studies under the project to assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and impacts of interventions over the project life.
• Promote accountability and ensure compliance with IRCWAY policies, global Humanitarian Standards for Quality and Accountability, including the Client Feedbacks and Complaints Response Mechanism, to ensure that target communities and people are at the center of IRC response.
• Ensure proactive and reactive feedback collection from beneficiaries and help the project team and partner to use these for informed decision making.
• Maintain proper filing system of monitoring and data related documents in hard as well as in soft.
• Lead documentation of lessons learnt from program implementation. Coordinate with program leads, partners and communities in documenting lessons learnt.
• Document, finalize and share Case Studies, Human Interest Stories and Most Significant Change Stories.
• Carry out other such tasks as assigned by the supervisor. 

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:MEAL Manager-Islamabad

Position directly supervises: None

Coordination: Research Project Leads, Data Analyst, and MIS team

Job Requirements:

a) Education:

• Master’s degree
• Preference will be given to candidates with their degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science.

b) Work Experience:

• At least Four years rich experience in role of Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning and Quality Assurance. MEAL experiences in WASH sector would be a value addition.
• Working experience in both developmental projects with focus on Education and infrastructure building.
• Proven working experience in Monitoring, Evaluations, Accountability, and awareness about CHS.
• Proven skills in collection, analysis and reporting of quantitative and qualitative data and analytical reports. 
• Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations
• Ability to manage a large and varied workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines

c) Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Good understanding of statistical data, ability to recognize, interpret and synthesize patterns in data
• Field Monitoring and field data collection skills
• Data analysis, dashboarding, interpretation and analytical report writing skills.
• Computer skills & data visualization skills
• Strong communication and coordination skills

Language Skills:  English, Urdu, Pashto

Others: 

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

• The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
• IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

             o Level of interaction with children: Less contact with children

• IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
• IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

 Women candidates and differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.