MEAL Assistant – Hershey at Save the Children Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: MEAL Assistant – Hershey

Job Identification: 4563
Location: Ikom, Cross River
Grade: 5
Contract length: 1 year (renewable)
Team: Programme Development and Quality
Job Category: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Role Purpose

• Save the Children is implementing a 3-year project aimed at ensuring child protection through reduced child labor and increased accountability in the cocoa-growing communities in Cross River and Ondo States in Nigeria.
• The MEAL Assistant will be a part of the MEAL team. He/she will assist the MEAL team with activities, including data collection validation and entry. S/he will support in coordination with operations and assist in planning field visits and assessments.
• S/he will support in ensuring Accountability in supported communities including information sharing, participation and ensuring efficient feedback and response mechanisms.

Scope of Role

• Reports to: MEAL Officer
• Staff reporting to this post: None.
• Role Dimensions: Field office-based position with at least 60% field visit

Key Areas of Accountability
Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Assist in programme updates for programme management and internal information sharing.
• Assist with data collection and verification processes as necessary.
• Conduct field monitoring visits (including the use of the quality benchmarks/ monitoring checklist) and facilitate focus group discussions.
• Assist with the implementation of programme evaluations (data collection)
• Support MEAL in conducting assessments as needed.
• Assist in raising purchase requests and planning training for enumerators.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Accountability:

• Responsible for handling, documenting, confidentiality, and security of all informational resources related to feedback and complaints from beneficiaries.
• Support Complaints and Feedback Mechanisms, including communicating responses to complainants; liaise with programs and operations to ensure prompt follow-up on feedback and complaints received.
• Support in facilitating participation activities in implementing communities

Documentation and Dissemination:

• Contribute to preparing weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on MEAL.
• Prepare field visit reports and do debriefing and action planning with relevant staff.

Coordination:

• Maintain liaison with MEAL unit and other units including programmes, finance, supply chain, advocacy and campaign etc including field coordination/community mobilization team.

Safeguarding

• Ensure risk assessments are done before any data collection that involves children.

Behaviours (Values in Practice)
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Equal Opportunities:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

• The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent with a minimum of 1 year of experience working with International NGOs, UN agencies, partners, and/or local authorities including NYSC.
• Computer literate with experience in the following computer packages; MS word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Access.

Experience and Skills:
Essential:

• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Listening skills.
• Problem analysis and problem-solving.
• Proficient in relevant computer applications.
• Ability to work in a team with flexibility to undertake challenging tasks and adapt to different working conditions.
• Good spoken, reading, and writing skills in English with the ability to produce quality reports.
•  Ability to work as part of a team, flexible, adaptable, and patient.
• Ability to work under pressure often to strict deadlines.

Desirable:

• Experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection
• Have experience and/or knowledge about working with children

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2023; 09:36