Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer

Job Description

Position Summary

The Role:

To plan, design, organize, and coordinate the collection, compilation, consolidation, and analysis of data for project/program progress and outcome and impact monitoring. Feedback to planning processes and ensure a better data management system. The MEAL Officer will support in the setup of the MEAL System and will have responsibility for designing and maintaining the databases and strengthening the system, building capacity of Oxfam and Partner organization staff. This includes collecting, compiling, and analyzing relevant data specifically project process, output, outcome, and impact indicators. The incumbent will also contribute to documenting lessons learned as the projects evolve.

Key Responsibilities:

1- Monitoring, Assessment, and Evaluations

• Provide MEAL technical support for the field office including MEAL activity plan, methodological design, need assessments, baseline, post-distribution monitoring, evaluations, and performance data collection for all Oxfam projects in the field office.
• Review and revise data collection tools and survey questionnaires and instruments.
• Work closely with Sana’a MEAL team and develop MEAL tools and MEAL activities for new projects and programs.
• Participate and assist Country Office MEAL Manager in preparation of ToR for internal and external evaluations, need assessments, and other studies.
• Timely plan and initiate all baselines, end lines, and impact evaluations, KAP surveys.
• In consultation with Sana’a MEAL team, EFSL, WASH, Gender, and Protection technical team leaders and other program teams, develop evaluation design, including specification of the necessary staff and resources to conduct the evaluation.
• Monitor, supervise, and coordinate baselines, assessments, evaluations, and select and recruit experienced enumerators for data collection.
• Prepare internal baseline and evaluation reports with technical support of sector team leaders and officers, review, comment, and revise all evaluation reports prepared to ensure data relevance and consistency.

2- Data management and reporting

• Work closely with Sana’a MEAL team including MEAL Manager, MIS, and PQ officer and establish and implement digital and offline database system.
• Lead and supervise field data collection, data cleaning, and analysis for program managers and team leaders and produce reports together with sector technical teams.
• Review, revise, and update all survey and evaluation reports and ensure data quality including timeliness, relevance, accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all program data in the field office.
• Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high-quality data collection.

3- Program quality, learning, and accountability

• Work closely with MIS officer, establish context-specific beneficiary compliance and feedback system, and ensure its implementation including monitoring timeliness and appropriateness of response to beneficiary’s complaints.
• Collect and share monthly monitoring and accountability reports with Sana’a MEAL team.
• Monitor the quality of implementation including vetting the processes of how programs implemented and ensure accountability standards are fully met as per Oxfam program quality standard, CAMSA, and humanitarian standards.
• Review all project implementations against Oxfam’s accountability standards.
• Harmonize MEAL tools and data collection instruments across same/similar projects implemented in different locations.
• Control the quality of quarterly and monthly MEAL reports based on agreed indicators to guide decision-making.
• Work with each technical head to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective MEAL system which will be utilized in monitoring strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in existing programs and services and for reporting on donor commitments.
• Assist program manager and facilitate quarterly after-action review including learning and reflection events, stakeholder consultation, and provide feedback to the program management team.
• Document lessons learned and best practice related to MEAL and program quality for all programs across different locations.

4- Data management and reporting

• Work closely with Sana’a MEAL team including MEAL Manager, MIS, and PQ officer and establish and implement digital and offline database system.
• Lead and supervise field data collection, data cleaning, and analysis for program managers and team leaders and produce reports together with sector technical team.
• Review, revise, and update all survey and evaluation reports and ensure data quality including timeliness, relevance, accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all program data in the field office.
• Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high-quality data collection.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned with our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

Essential:

• University Degree in a relevant field/significant relevant years of experience at this level with International NGO’s.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years of experience in a similar function in addition to knowledge in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning.
• Previous experience of working on programs such as WASH, Food Security and Livelihood, and Gender is preferable.
• Competency in the use of relevant technology systems (MS Office suite skills) in addition to Survey CTO.
• Solid and sound data management and reporting skills.
• Good leadership and team management skills.
• Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal).

Desirable:

• Team-working skills.
• Flexibility under pressure and in response to changing needs.
• Attention to detail and strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Ability to keep clear and concise records and some knowledge of relevant statistical software would be highly desirable.