Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer

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Job Overview/Summary: The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for technical oversight of monitoring and evaluation of the emergency response program (Dry Zone). By making accurate, reliable, and timely data and information available, the Senior MEAL Officer will contribute to the comprehensive situational analysis in the IDP camps and communities where IRC and its partners provide services, and will support learning, design, and adaptation of interventions in these areas including data quality auditing, operational research, program impact assessment, M&E capacity building and program reporting under direct supervision of Senior MEAL Manager.

The Senior MEAL Officer will also work in close collaboration with the Cluster Co-Lead Coordinators to guarantee the necessary alignment between IRC and Cluster data, tools, and methodologies.  The Senior MEAL Officer is expected to be flexible and participate in other relevant functions of IRC Mission, to the best of his/her abilities. He/ She plays a key role in direct supervision and capacity building of data assistant/MEAL officer and project staff, and monitoring and evaluation of program quality and services of IRC. The Senior MEAL Officer will work closely with the filed Project Coordinator and Project Managers for data quality control of the program. This position hired only to Myanmar National.

Major Responsibilities: Under overall guidance of the Senior MEAL Manager, the position will:

General

• Support to set up and manage M&E framework of assigned program.
• Monitor implementation, maintain, and analyze data and produce information on project impact and progress of respective programs.
• Technical oversight and capacity building to IRC staff and partner organizations' staffs of respective program.
• Reporting.

Support in setting up and manage M&E framework of the program:

• Support to set up respective program frameworks and identify data collection requirements and methodologies for log frame indicators in line with database, donor requirement and IRC global MEAL system.
• Support to develop a list of data collected during program implementation for reporting progress, data collection methodologies and data quality control tools and responsible agencies.
• Support in revising and re-adjusting the respective program M&E framework as needed.
• Support in developing detailed program log frames, work plans, and monitoring tools to ensure high quality program implementation throughout the project cycle and ensure the program is achieving expected outputs and that activities are relevant for the specific program.

Monitor implementation, maintain, and analyze data and produce information on project impact and progress:

• Design methodology and administer process of relevant data flow mechanism at the respective program in close collaboration with the field program staff.
• Oversight process of data flow mechanism and routinely visit the project sites and monitor implementation of data flow mechanism at the respective program.
• In coordination with MEAL Manager and Project Manager, monitor the management of program database and project data quality control processes for the respective program.
• Ensure systematic data collection along with the project implementation at respective Townships and inform Project Manager for timely decision making.
• Update the beneficiaries reached and situation of coverage area/locations for respective grants.
• Provide technical support to program staff on implementing data flow mechanisms and project data quality control tools.
• Lead in preparation of respective cluster reports or government shared reports in a timely manner.
• Assist in organizing and managing the project impact assessment, survey, operational research and field testing of MEAL tools and systems as needed.

Quality Control and Accountability

• Data Quality Auditing (DQA) in the project sites and making ensure that project database is safely stored and backed up at respective program level.
• Coordinate with Accountability Officer to support collection of beneficiary feedback through launched feedback mechanisms at targeted sites.
• Coordinate with MEAL Manager and Project Manager to support response and follow up of complaints related to the IRC program provided by INGOs, NGOs and other agencies of clusters.

Technical oversight and capacity building to IRC staff

• Assist MEAL Manager for overall technical oversight and quality control of the respective program.
• Organize the capacity building plan by collaborating with Project Manager and actions for program staff as needed.
• Train all key IRC and partner staff to be standard M&E system such as Data collection mechanism, Data compilation and cleaning mechanism, Data verification mechanism, Data analyzing mechanism, Data utilization mechanism, Data collection time frame, Data reporting time frame, Reporting framework.
• Provide capacity-building support to all team members, including training on basic M&E concepts, assessment surveys collection etc when needed.

Reporting

• Assist Project Manager and MEAL Manager in donor reporting to ensure all M&E reports are produced with highest quality in a timely manner.
• Regular and timely reporting to Program Manager and MEAL Manager for respective programs.

Other activities

• In the event of a natural disaster or renewal of conflict in the program area, the Senior MEAL Officer will be expected to participate in emergency response activities.
• Depending on capacity and workload, the Senior MEAL Officer will be encouraged to attend relevant training and meetings in Myitkyina, Yangon, and the Asia region to enhance the ability to support the project.

Key Working Relationships: The Senior MEAL Officer will work under the direct supervision of the Senior MEAL Manager. She/He will closely coordinate with the program staff and operation staff such as pharmacists; logistics as needed for response of emergency response activities. The Senior MEAL officer will work with partner organizations for data management, reporting with quality assurance, and construct high quality M&E system in the assigned area.

Position Reports to: Sr. MEAL Manager

Position directly supervises: N/A

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

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