MEAL Coordinator at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need around the world. With its headquarters in London, UK, SC works in over 120 countries globally, including Nigeria, helping children survive, learn and be protected by improving their education, health, nutrition, protection and economic opportunities, and in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: MEAL Coordinator

Job Identification: 8094
Location: Kaduna
Employment Type: Contract
Grade: 3
Job Category: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

Child Safeguarding

• Level 3 - The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with children or young people and, in the overseas context all posts are considered to be level 3 posts in view of potential situations which may allow staff unsupervised access to vulnerable children and young people.

Role Purpose

• The GPE Multiplier ROOSC project will support Kaduna State to increase access to learning opportunities, improve enrolment, and ensure active participation and completion of quality primary education by all children, particularly children with disability, girls, and adolescents.
• It will complement the programs and interventions of the government and those of its development partners to address effectively and substantially reduce the number of OOSC.
• The MEAL Coordinator will coordinate PLANE MEAL activities for the response, design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities for the SCI projects and strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation systems, monthly review, analyse data and provide feedback to project managers and prepare the M&E Project reports to the donors as at when due.
• She/he will provide a framework through which these measurements (M&E data) are fed back to those involved in the running of the various component of the program and ensure that the information can support and guide the decisions of the management team to improve the quality and impact the program operations.

Scope of Role:

• Reports to: Snr. MEAL Manager
• Staff directly reporting to this post: MEAL Officer and Accountability Officer
• Budget Responsibilities: None 
• Role Dimensions: None.

Key Areas of Accountability
Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Provide high quality technical leadership, support and capacity building on MEAL to the project implementation team.
• Ensure that the project delivers on all internal and external MEAL requirements in a timely manner and with high quality information. 
• Develop robust MEAL plans, systems, processes and tools for the project in line with SCI and donor requirements.
• In collaboration with the programme & technical team, develop and implement project MEAL plans, quality benchmarks, research, assessments and evaluations to support evidence and learning agenda as well as a process for knowledge sharing between SCI, stakeholders and partners in the state.
• Support project staff to track quality benchmarks, collect good quality monitoring data in a timely manner and collate/organize data received for reporting purposes. 
• Lead project data review meetings to identify performance trends and support the project team to identify areas for improvement or adaptation.
• Ensure relevant data is entered in SCI’s Project reporting Information Management & Evidence (PRIME) system in a timely manner.
• Participate in designing and implementation of project assessment, evaluations, and research. In coordination with the project team, technical advisors and Research Manager, design study terms of reference, provide briefings to consultants and provide logistical support, review reports to ensure studies are in line with SCI & donors’ standards.

Accountability:

• Ensure that all project staff fully understand and promote accountability in general and to children in particular through training and coaching.
• Ensure the project is implementing the 3 pillars of Accountability - Information sharing, participation and feedback & reporting and providing relevant documentation.
• Ensure project participants are involved in every stage of the programme cycle. 
• Design and implement appropriate feedback mechanisms that are contextual, effective, accessible and safe for beneficiaries, and that ensure that feedback is reported, reviewed and acted upon. · 
• Ensure the development of regular trend analysis of feedback received and sharing for wider learning and improvement. 

Knowledge Management & Learning:

• Support the integration of adaptive learning approaches into routine project processes, such as regular pause and reflect meetings, data review meetings, and the use of continuous quality improvement processes.
• Coordinate with project team, country technical advisors and Knowledge management & Learning lead to ensure that lessons learned are properly documented and are incorporated into programme implementation and design. 
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• Contribute to the sharing of good practices in the implementation of immunization activities in the States by following and highlighting successful examples through "success stories."
• Ensure project MEAL documents are adequately stored in SCI Resource Centre. 

Safeguarding:

• Include questions about safeguarding and safe programming issues in MEAL tools.
• Ensure volunteers and partners have the understanding, skills, and capacity to inform communities to discuss how SEA and other forms of abuse will be prevented in the course of the program or project.
• Ensure risk assessment are done before any data collection than involves children.

Staff Management & Coaching:

• Coaching and mentoring of direct reports to achieve project deliverables. 
• Support implementation of the SCI performance management system, by supporting, supervising and reviewing performance of direct reports.
• Working together with direct report to identify learning and development needs and develop specific plans to address these needs. 

General:

• Comply with SCI policies and practice with respect to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• B. Sc or equivalent in Social Science / Management Sciences and another related discipline.
• 5 years’ experience in M&E positions and/or program experience in field data collection and analysis in hard-to-reach areas. 
• Project management skills will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Experience with immunization programs, including immunization data, at the sub-national level. 
• Experience in coaching, supervision, or building capacity in data entry, management, and use. 
• Skilled in data quality assurance methods and data analysis using spreadsheets (Excel), Access, SATA, SPSS, and GIS applications).
• Experience in data visualization and use, including demonstrated ability to interpret data and recommend programmatic actions to take .
• Experience implementing research or evaluations, including experience conducting qualitative research.
• Excellent communication skills, including verbal and written communication. 
• Willing to travel within Nigeria and within implementation communities
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching.
• Excellent time management and planning capacity.

Behaviours (Values in Practice):
Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Application Closing Date
8th July, 2024 (04:51 PM).

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online