Job title: MEAL Officer
Firm: Danish Refugee Council
Job description: MEAL OfficerSupervised byMEAL Crew ChiefReporting toMEAL Crew ChiefResponsibility StationMMC, Borno StateSpace of OperationNigeriaEmployment Interval1 12 months with risk of extension.Sort of Contract (Expat/Nationwide/Trainee)NationwideWage & AdvantagesNM – HIntroductionThe Danish Refugee Council assists refugees and internally displaced individuals throughout the globe: we offer emergency support, struggle for his or her rights, and strengthen their alternative for a brighter future. We work in conflict-affected areas, alongside the displacement routes, and within the nations the place refugees settle. In cooperation with native communities, we attempt for accountable and sustainable options. We work towards profitable integration and – each time potential – for the achievement of the want to return residence.The Danish Refugee Council was based in Denmark in 1956 and has since grown to turn out to be a world humanitarian group with greater than 7,000 workers and eight,000 volunteers. Based mostly in Copenhagen (Denmark) and current in forty nations, the Danish Refugee Council is a non-profitmaking, politically unbiased, non-governmental and non-denominational reduction group.Our imaginative and prescient is a dignified life for all displaced. All our efforts are based mostly on our price compass: humanity, respect, independence and neutrality, participation, and honesty and transparency.BackgroundDanish Refugee Council (DRC), and its security unit, has had an operational presence in Nigeria since 2015. DRC Nigeria is the biggest DRC nation mission within the West Africa area and one of many largest DRC nation missions globally. At the moment, DRC delivers life-saving help and safety to susceptible, conflict-affected populations together with internally displaced individuals, returnees, and host communities within the areas of armed violence discount, humanitarian mine motion, livelihoods, diet and meals safety, safety, shelter, and non-food gadgets (NFI) and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in 30+ Native Authorities Areas (LGAs) throughout Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in northeast Nigeria.FunctionThe MEAL Officer is to make sure that all DRC tasks and applications are successfully monitored, evaluated, and constantly improved. He ought to monitor progress, assess program impression, and guarantee accountability to stakeholders by establishing suggestions mechanisms. The position includes information assortment, evaluation, reporting, and the implementation of suggestions and studying mechanisms to make sure accountability to stakeholders, together with beneficiaries and donors. Total, the MEAL Officer would play an important position in helping the MEAL Crew Chief, pushed by proof and suggestions. To this finish, the MEAL officer will liaise with DRC workers throughout departments to make sure compliance with DRC MEAL SOPs throughout programming as directed by the MEAL Crew Chief. Moreover, he’s answerable for designing, implementing, and overseeing the monitoring, analysis, accountability, and studying actions inside the DRC implementation space.Duties and Duties:Basic Programming & Operations
- Accumulate, clear, handle, and analyze information associated to challenge actions, utilizing acceptable strategies equivalent to surveys, Family Survey, Baseline, PDM, MSNA, focus group discussions (FGDs), and key informant interviews (KIIs).
- Guarantee information high quality and integrity by way of common discipline visits and validation checks.
- Design and conduct evaluations, together with baseline, midline, and endline assessments.
- Analyze analysis outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness and impression of applications.
- Generate insights and suggestions for program enchancment and share with the MEAL Crew Chief.
- Set up and handle suggestions and complaints mechanisms to make sure that beneficiaries and stakeholders can simply present enter.
- Monitor and reply to suggestions and complaints in a well timed and acceptable method.
- Be sure that accountability requirements, such because the Core Humanitarian Customary (CHS), are built-in into challenge implementation.
- Seize and doc classes realized, greatest practices, and success tales from tasks and share with the MEAL Crew Chief.
- Help the MEAL Crew Chief in Facilitate studying periods and workshops to share insights with the staff and stakeholders.
- Promote a tradition of studying inside the group to drive steady enchancment.
- Put together detailed experiences on monitoring, analysis, and accountability actions, together with information evaluation, findings, and suggestions.
- Help the MEAL Crew Chief in donor experiences and proposals by offering related MEAL information and insights.
- Guarantee well timed submission of all MEAL experiences to related stakeholders.
- Present coaching and help to challenge workers on MEAL instruments, processes, and greatest practices.
- Construct the capability of companions and native stakeholders in MEAL-related actions.
Coordination and illustration
- Work carefully with program groups to combine MEAL actions into challenge design and implementation.
- Collaborate with different departments, equivalent to finance and logistics, to make sure that MEAL actions are well-coordinated.
- Characterize the group in MEAL-related inner and exterior conferences, workshops, and networks.
- Guarantee integration and help of MEAL actions with different DRC sectors.
- Coordinate with MEAL/AAP counterparts in different areas within the implementation of generally funded tasks.
- Guarantee good illustration and popularity of the MEAL sector in any respect ranges.
Mission Growth:
- Help in growing challenge plans and budgets for funding
- Help within the growth of the tasks’ MEAL instruments
- Help within the administration of MEAL actions
- Guarantee Monitoring, Analysis, Accountability, and Studying for all Tasks within the discipline stage.
- Guarantee high quality management in the course of the implementation of all actions in accordance with Sphere and Nationwide requirements.
- Help the MEAL Crew Chief in getting ready MEAL/AAP weekly, month-to-month, quarterly, and annual experiences to related authorities as per want.
Logistics / Finance:
- Assist the road Supervisor to watch monetary commitments and expenditures towards budgets and supply well timed suggestions on funds follow-ups.
- Assist in initiating procurements and guarantee their execution.
- Contribute to grants administration of all MEAL tasks by way of administration of day-to-day challenge expenditures with line supervisor.
- Help the MEAL Crew Chief in growing a procurement plan initially of the challenge cycle to forecast procurement wants.
Monitoring and Analysis
- Assist the MEAL Crew Chief in growing and implementing the challenge monitoring and analysis plan, and well timed submission of experiences and different doc necessities.
- Present weekly suggestions on challenge implementation modality, help in reaching most effectivity in challenge supply, and inform the event/replace of DRC’s MEAL technique in Nigeria.
- Assist in growing acceptable MEAL instruments and guarantee their implementation.
- The obligations listed within the JD should not exhaustive and could also be readjusted in accordance with operational wants however will stay in step with the general goal of the position.
- Help the MEAL Crew Chief in Growing and implement monitoring instruments and frameworks to trace challenge progress and outcomes.
Expertise and technical competencies:Important:
- Minimal of 2-3 years of earlier expertise with implementing monitoring, analysis, accountability and studying and AAP of humanitarian applications.
- Use of ODK and Kobo-Accumulate Toolbox Software program of knowledge assortment
- Data of MEAL and AAP Approaches and SHERE Customary
- Strong background on laptop expertise and competency in MS Phrase, MS PowerPoint, Excel, and SPSS at least.
Fascinating:
- The place might require frequent journey to challenge websites in distant and typically difficult environments.
- The position might contain working exterior of standard workplace hours to fulfill deadlines or throughout emergency responses.
- Glorious facilitation expertise and a robust understanding of the best way to accumulate suggestions safely and precisely from all members of a group no matter their age, gender, or different variety components.
- Expertise working in emergency response with INGOs, ideally in a humanitarian context.
- Fluency in written and spoken English. Fluency in native spoken languages (Hausa, and many others).
Schooling: (embrace certificates, licenses and many others.)
- Bachelor’s diploma in social science, enterprise, growth, or any associated discipline.
- Glorious communication, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal expertise.
We provide.
- Contract size: 1 12 months with the potential for extension.
- Degree: NM – H, Step 1
- Begin date: October 2024
Basic Rules:
- The worker shall comply with DRC directions on security, confidentiality, and moral pointers, together with the Code of Conduct and the Humanitarian Accountability Framework
- Worker shouldn’t interact in some other paid exercise in the course of the DRC contract interval with out prior authorization.
- Worker shouldn’t interact in any exercise that might hurt DRC or the implementation of any challenge in the course of the DRC contract interval.
- Worker shouldn’t give interviews to the media or publish project-related images or different materials with out prior authorization.
- Worker shall return all borrowed gear for the challenge to DRC after the top of the contract interval or upon request.
Utility Course of
- All candidates should ship a canopy letter and an up to date CV (not than 4 pages). Each should be in English.
- DRC offers equal alternative in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the premise of race, intercourse, color, faith, sexual orientation, age, marital standing or incapacity.
- DRC encourages all candidates to use and doesn’t observe any discrimination in any recruitment course of.
- Purposes submitted after the time limit is not going to be thought-about.
- As a result of urgency of the place, DRC has the appropriate to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile earlier than the above deadline.
Nevertheless, all candidates shall think about that DRC can’t provide a world work contract to a citizen of the nation of project (on this particular case, Nigeria)Deadline: Purposes shut on the first of October 2024 at midnight (GMT).Word: Purposes will probably be reviewed on a rolling foundation because of the urgency, subsequently a candidate who carefully meets the necessities could also be chosen earlier than the above deadline.
- Solely short-listed candidates will probably be invited for written checks and oral interviews.
- For basic details about the Danish Refugee Council, please seek the advice of:
Anticipated wage:
Location: Maiduguri, Borno State
Job date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:54:20 GMT
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