MEAL Coordinator at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) Full Time NEW

Job Title: MEAL Coordinator

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Job type: Full time

Role Purpose

• The job holder is responsible for providing oversight MEAL function to design and lead a strong MEAL system.
• The MEAL system’s objective is to ensure harmonized and aligned data collection and monitoring to inform decision-making, accountability, reporting and learning in a timely and strategic manner.
• The MEAL Coordinator ensures that the program undertakes routine Continuous Quality Improvement & data quality assessment, has information briefs, regular sharing of Program updates with stakeholders, a mechanism for collecting, tracking and responding to feedback and complaints from Program stakeholders
• In addition, the job holder ensures that Quality Benchmarks are used during program implementation of activities and puts in place a tailor made documentation strategy for impact stories, reports, and best practices.
• The staff is responsible for ensuring that Program data on outputs and outcome progress is collected, analyzed and synthesized accurately and in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement monitoring tools for indicator tracking.
• Develop an operational MEAL plan to monitor and document program progress.
• Contribute to developing Quality Benchmarks for activities, guiding monitoring and ensuring timely action plan implementation.
• Enhance the use of digital data management, this may include the use of Kobo and ODK among other programs.
• Conduct routine data quality assessment and continuous quality improvement to ensure program implementation and report quality.
• Coordinate the design of participatory program evaluations and assessments.
• Coordinate and conduct program evaluations.
• Collaborate to establish and maintain effective Feedback and Response Mechanisms (FRM).
• Manage complaints and feedback, track response timeliness, and maintain an updated complaints tracker.
• Foster and develop a culture of learning within CASFOD.
• Document lessons on innovations, and interventions for stakeholder sharing.
• Identify research opportunities and coordinate to conduct study.
• Facilitate documentation of program results, impact, and best practices, ensuring lessons inform programming and advocacy.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of four years’ work experience in monitoring and evaluation working experience (preferably in education/protection-related programs)
• Knowledge and use of various survey methods for monitoring different programs.
• Sound written and oral presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must. Microsoft Office, especially Word, spreadsheet (Excel, Stata, Power BI, and QGIS applications).
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

• No applications will be received at CASFOD office neither through any email address.
• CASFOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Women and Persons with Disability are highly encouraged to apply.
• Background and reference checks will be conducted, and ethics is part of annual performance appraisals.
• CASFOD will require applicants to self-declare prior issues of sexual or other misconduct, termination of past employment, criminal records, and concerns registered with government authorities regarding.