Fresher MEAL Officer – Health System Strengthening Project Jobs – Save the Children
Job Title: MEAL Officer – Health System Strengthening Project
Organization: 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 MEAL Officer – Health System Strengthening Project is responsible for providing support to the HSS project MEAL function and will work with the MEAL Team, HSS project manager, Technical Specialist/Head of Health, programme teams to design and lead a strong MEAL system for the project. The MEAL system’s objective is to ensure harmonised and aligned data collection and monitoring to inform decision-making, accountability, reporting and learning in a timely and strategic manner.
The MEAL officer ensures that HSS project undertakes routine Continuous Quality Improvement & data quality assessments, develops information briefs, regular sharing of Programme updates with stakeholders and establishes a mechanism for collecting, tracking and responding to feedback and complaints from Programme stakeholders.
In addition, the jobholder ensures that Quality Benchmarks are used during implementation of project activities and puts in place a tailor made documentation strategy for impact stories, reports, and best practices. The MEAL officer will cultivate a culture of learning within the project and ensure that lessons learnt from pilots and programme interventions are documented, shared between partners and with key stakeholders and contribute to national and global level learning and research. The staff is responsible for ensuring that Programme data on outputs and outcome progress is collected, analysed and synthesised accurately and in a timely manner; supports training of Programme team and partners in quality data collection and management including use of data to inform decisions on the Programme priorities. The job holder may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Save the Children MEAL Officer – Health System Strengthening Project job must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in either Statistics or Humanities
- At least two years of working experience in monitoring and evaluation working experience (preferably in health related projects with an International NGO).
- Knowledge and use of various survey methods for monitoring of different programs.
- Prior experience establishing and running coordination mechanisms.
- Knowledge of Uganda local government health systems and structures as well as Ministry of Health Management Information Systems including DHIS2, HRIS and mTrac is an added advantage
- Additional training and experience in biostatistics or monitoring and evaluation and MIS is an added advantage.
- Experience of working with local partners and District Local Government in Child Rights Governance, Health, Nutrition, Education and Child Protection is an added advantage.
- Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
- Sound written and oral presentation skills
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link below.
NB: 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.
Deadline: 13th March 2020