MEAL Coordinator Apolou NGO Job Careers – Save the Children
Job Title: MEAL Coordinator Apolou
Organisation: Save the Children
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world and has been implementing programs for over 90 years. Save the Children envisions a Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale.
Job Summary: The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator will lead the implementation of Save the Children’s MEAL activities in the field on the Apolou Activity, on which Save the Children is a sub-awardee to Mercy Corps. The MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for designing routine monitoring forms, overseeing data collection, compiling and aggregating data, maintaining databases, generating descriptive statistics, and providing support to surveys and evaluation as well as learning and accountability system for Save the Children’s technical interventions and impact on the Apolou Activity. The MEAL Coordinator will also provide technical lead on monthly, quarterly and annual reporting for Apolou. In addition, the job holder ensures that quality bench marks are used during implementation of Apolou activities and puts in place a tailor made documentation strategy for impact stories, reports, and best practices and makes sure that lessons learned feed into the Apolou planning processes. He/she expected to with Mercy Corps (MC) Apolou MEAL team, maintaining and enhancing Save the Children and MC partnership. The job holder may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency teams outside the project location.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Bio Statistics, Public Health, Sociology with a bias in health system or Development Studies with Post Graduate training in M&E or Project planning and Management.
- At least three years working experience in monitoring and evaluation working experience (preferably in education/protection related programmes with an International NGO).
- Experience collecting data through quantitative household surveys (ideally in Karamoja)
- Experience interviewing community members and leaders and/or facilitating focus group discussions (especially with youth)
- Understanding of the basic standards to ensure data quality
- Knowledge of data analysis principles and software (ideally SPSS, STATA, R, ArcGIS, NVivo, and/or ATLAS.ti)
- Familiarity with mobile data collection platforms (like Kobo Collect, Epi Info, IForm builder, etc).
- Experience with monitoring and evaluation techniques to assess the quality and effectiveness of program strategies for program learning
- Previous experience with WASH, adolescent, and/or behavior change programming preferred
- Excellent communication and report writing skill
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link below.
Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.
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.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent, persons with disabilities and female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 30th December 2019
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