MONITORING, EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING (MEAL) MANAGER – Libyanjobs

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Address Alkufrah, Benghazi

Preliminary Job Information
Job Title	MONITORING, EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING (MEAL) MANAGER
Country and Base	Libya – Duty Station Benghazi or AL Kufrah with frequent trips to the other location
Reports to	Area Coordinator (AC)
Reports to (technical link)	Deputy Head of Mission for Programmes (DHOM-P)
Direct Management	1 MEAL Officer, 2 Accountability Assistants
Expected Date Of Arrival	01/12/2021
Application submission information	Interested candidates should submit their applications by EMAIL ONLY with the subject: MEAL manager + your FULL NAME to lby.recruitment@premiere-urgence.org with letter of motivation and CV. Applications not respecting these instructions may not be considered.

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The organisation

Première UrgenceInternationale (PUI) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political and non-religious international aid organization. Our teams are committed to supporting civilians’ victims of marginalization and exclusion, or hit by natural disasters, wars and economic collapses, by answering their fundamental needs. Our aim is to provide emergency relief to uprooted people in order to help them recover their dignity and regain self-sufficiency. The association leads in average 200 projects by year in the following sectors of intervention: food security, health, nutrition, construction and rehabilitation of infrastructures, water, sanitation, hygiene and economic recovery. PUI is providing assistance to around 7 million people in 22 countries – in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and France.

Première UrgenceInternationale has been operating in Libya since 2017, particularly in the regions of Benghazi and, from 2019, in Al Kufra, to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable populations affected by ongoing crises, improve their access to essential services. The organization’s intervention in the country is built upon an integrated approach combining the provision of comprehensive primary healthcare services, psychosocial support, protection assistance, WASH activities, and infrastructure and rehabilitation. Première UrgenceInternationale develops public infrastructures’ rehabilitation and restoration in areas affected by several years of conflict. Additionaly, during the COVID-19 crisis in Libya, the organization adapted its intervention to include Infection Prevention and Control and COVID-19 awareness activities.

Job Description

Overall objective

Under the direct management and supervision of the Area coordinator (AC), and under the technical management of Deputy Head of Mission for Programmes (DHOM-P), theMEAL Managers is responsibleof the MEAL related activities implemented in the Benghazi (BGZ) and Al Kufra (AKF) Bases. In coordination with programme team members, the MEAL manager is responsible for designing and supervising implementation of MEAL related activities in compliance with Mission’s MEAL strategy, including managing MEAL team members, ensuring MEAL practices are well integrated at base level, and ensuring MEAL tools and processes are harmonized across bases

Tasks and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Area Coordinator and the MEAL CO:

Support operationalisation of the mission’s meal strategy

Training and technical support to meal team and programme team

Monitoring and evaluation of PUI programs

Accountability

Learning

HR management/capacity development

Reporting / communication / representation

Specific objectives and linked activities

SUPPORT OPERATIONALISATION OF THE MISSION’S MEAL STRATEGY

Support in operationalization of the 2022 MEAL Strategy

Participate in developing a strategy in accordance with PUI country strategy and in link with PUI’s MEAL Approach.

Participate in integrating MEAL strategy into Programming work at base level.

TRAINING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT TO MEAL TEAM AND PROGRAMME TEAM

Develop program teams’ capacities in the department’s field of expertise: data collection and analysis (method, format, software etc.), measure of indicators, feedback mechanism, etc.

Deploy PUI’s MEAL Approach trainings and develop tailor training modules in link with the Mission’s needs.

Provide program teams with a technical and methodological support for M&E activities, data management (questionnaire design, sampling, extraction of useful data and interpretation).

Support program teams in creating or adapting tools for: Project Monitoring Tool, indicators monitoring, (MEAL plans and surveys).

MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PUI PROGRAMS

Contribute to the elaboration, review and harmonization of M&E tools, data management, especially in the PMTs (indicators table) and the MEAL Plans.

Create / revise the tools needed to implement project’s monitoring (database, survey form …) and ensure that the monitoring tools developed work and are correctly used by the teams;

Define / improve / monitor and ensure the quality of information and data collected in the field ;

Support Programme’s teams in designing data collection studies (Baseline,End-line) to collect information on performance indicators and project results;

Check relevance of reports, analysis, maps and recommendations produced.

Propose adjustments, new activities to improve the quality of the operations or approaches, in consultation with PMs and program / technical coordinators.

Upon ad hoc request from the program / technical coordinator, perform data analysis.

Accompany teams in drafting project proposals and reports for donors. Be proactive in identifying innovative indicators and collection methods.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Following guidelines from PUI’s Accountability to Affected Population framework:

Manage team members in implementing the feedback and response mechanisms.

Check that the key principles of the feedback mechanism are respected.

Produce regular analysis of the complaints and feedbacks received.

In coordination with the (AC) and (DHOM-P) teams, ensure that a AAP approach is respected by the programme team throughout the different steps of the Project life-cycle

Work in collaboration with the program teams on the design and improvement of accountability mechanisms.

ENSURE THE REPRESENTATION OF PUI BEFORE HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS

Learning

Ensure that learning activities are included in the project activities

Contribute to the preparation of kick off and learning meetings per project and ensure capitalization of its content.

HR management/Capacity Development

Make sure that new staffs are briefed on MEAL’s roles and responsibilities.

Participate in the evaluation and in the assessment of the performance of collaborators under his/her supervision

Identify training needs

Supervise and support MEAL teams in implementing their action plan and achievement of their objectives

Reporting / communication / representation

Support in writing project proposals and reports’ paragraphs related to MEAL.

Make sure the right reporting tools and formats are used and deadlines are respected.

Represent PUI when asked and/or delegated to do so.

In link with programs, support in developing articles, case studies and success stories.

Team Management

Number of people to manage and their position: 1 MEAL Officer and 2 Accountability assistants

Other Contacts

Internal: functional link with the Deputy Head of Mission for Programsin Coordination, work in collaboration with program departments.

External: affected population, local authorities other humanitarian actors.

Required Profile
	Required	desirable
Education / Training	Bachelor’s or Master degree in a field related to Project Management, information management or social sciences
Professional experience	Experience in MEAL Previous experience in INGO	Experience designing databases Experience with a humanitarian work Previous Experience in Managing MEAL Team
Knowledge and skills	Capacity for analysing and synthetizing comprehensive information & technical data Excellent knowledge of Excel, data bases, kobo and other data software. Good knowledge in statistic and sampling methods. Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training and mentoring Good written communication skills Knowledge of project management	Prior knowledge of the humanitarian context/region
Languages	Good commenad in English and Arabic
Software	Strong computer skills essential, including ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel, Project & database Management software KOBOToolBoxor other Mobile Data Collection Tools SPSS, GIS, etc	X

PUI’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to migrants, refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation PUI’s values and Code of Conduct, Child Protection Policy, and prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

PUI does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination.

PUI conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks and reference checks as part of the recruitment process.

Any non-respect of rules and responsibilities mentioned above in the Job Description, might be assimilated to a professional fault and could lead to any kind of sanction.

PUI is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, race, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are committed to achieving a balanced gender distribution and therefore encourage women to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.