Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator NGO Careers – Save the Children International
Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
Organisation: Save the Children International
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. In Uganda, we implement programmes in six thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Livelihoods & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over 300 persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. In 2014, we reached over 143 million children through our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around the world.
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 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. .
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Save the Children MEAL Coordinator career placement should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Bio Statistics, Public Health, Sociology with a bias in health/WASH sector or Development Studies with Post Graduate training in M&E or Project planning and Management.
- At least three years of working experience in monitoring and evaluation working experience
- Previous experience with WASH, adolescent, and/or behavior change programming preferred
- Experience collecting data through quantitative household surveys (ideally in Karamoja)
- Experience interviewing community members and leaders and/or facilitating focus group discussions
- 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).
- Previous experience with monitoring and evaluation techniques to assess the quality and effectiveness of program strategies for program learning
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online by clicking on the title link below.
Deadline: 19th March 2018
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