Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning (MEAL) Officer

Place: Hanoi, Vietnam
Type of contract: Fixed Term contract
Starting date: Oct 2022
Closing date for applications: 5/10/2022

Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is seeking

Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning (MEAL) Officer

Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity.

CONTEXT:

Since October 2015, HI is implementing a nation-wide rehabilitation project aiming at strengthening the quality and access of rehabilitation services for persons with brain lesions (stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy and spina bifida). The project intends to reach its objective through 4 core approaches:

• Supporting service delivery (setting up rehab departments and units, strengthening evidence-based services, patient discharge and follow-up, provision of direct services – home accessibility, assistive devices, and independent living skills training…)
• Strengthening rehabilitation staff’s capacities and skills (developing higher education programs, provision of Continuing Medical Education, mentoring…)
• Developing policies and strengthening governance (production of rehabilitation guidelines, networking activities, strengthening service management procedures…)
• Increasing awareness on policies

The project is mostly funded by the USAID.

General mission

The Senior MEAL Officer’s missions concern the entire programme. He or she is in charge of deploying HI’s MEAL and IM standards on his or her programme and ensuring their application.

The overall coherency of the projects and their quality control is ensured jointly by the MEAL department and the Technical Unit Manager

Missions / Responsibilities

Mission 1: Strategy and steering

Responsibility 1: Defines the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool

• Helps with the development of operational strategy (StratOp) in line with HI strategy, StraTechs and Development plans (notably 3I and Emergency), including the development of the StratOp monitoring tool;
• Defines and oversees the programme’s MEAL action plan;
• Drives the performance of his or her service.
• Leads the assessment of local partners' MEAL/IM capacities and the resulting capacity building plans

Mission 2 : Standards and expertise

Responsibility 1: Designs the program's MEAL and IM systems and monitors their implementation and quality

• Is responsible for defining systems for monitoring, data collection, information management, evaluation, accountability to populations, learning and knowledge management that are adapted to the context of intervention and ensure compliance with HI standards;
• Ensures that the systems put in place on the various projects are consistent with each other and with HI's frameworks and standards and enable the consolidation of information for use in the programme’s global management.

Mission 3 : Operational implementation

Responsibility 1: Contributes towards improving HI’s response within his/her geographical scope

• Is responsible for the implementation of tools for measuring outcomes and impact that facilitate decision-making, learning and accountability;
• Is responsible for putting in place a system for ensuring accountability towards populations;
• Contributes towards the articulation and application of HI’s institutional policies and crosscutting approaches;

Responsibility 2: Contributes towards defining and improving the quality of projects in line with HI’s global frameworks and technical standards

• Provides technical support to the technical specialists in establishing quality indicators, monitoring methods and data collection tools;
• Contributes to the design and drafting of project proposals;
• Is responsible for ensuring that regular project evaluations take place.

Responsibility 3: Contributes towards improving the quality of project management, as defined in HI’s Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) policy

• Provides technical support to the project and partners teams for the implementation of monitoring, evaluation and accountability tools and methods;
• Provides technical support to operations managers, country managers and project managers for the application of PME policy and verifies its application.

Responsibility 4: Contributes towards the ownership of learning frameworks and methodologies by the programmes and by HI in general

• Is responsible, for implementing processes and methods for collecting, analysing, modelling and ownership of the knowledge produced;
• Proposes an analysis of the information collected and the knowledge produced to strengthen collective learning;
• Ensures the continuous improvement of learning frameworks and methodologies;
• Ensures access to relevant internal and external information for all staff.

Responsibility 5: Ensures the external representation and promotion of HI’s expertise in his her field.

• Represents HI’s MEAL and IM expertise in all relevant regional networks;
• Contributes towards advocacy on specific subjects (notably through the consolidation of evidence-based factors) in line with the StratOp and federal advocacy priorities;
• Contributes locally to communication messages in line with the StratOp and federal communication priorities.

Mission 4: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities

• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response.

Skills

Professional skills: MEAL/IM

Emergency preparedness and response skills

Other professional skills

Cross-sector skills

Language skills

Required for the function

Qualifications: Master's degree in humanitarian aid and/or development and/or international project management, or other related and relevant fields (international studies, etc.)

Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experience in the field of humanitarian aid and development project coordination, including at least 2 years in MEAL-related jobs.

CONDITIONS OF THE POSITION:

• Type of contract: Fixed term contract of 12 months/ starting from Oct 2022 (can be extended)
• Wage: According to profile and experience
• 24 hours insurance for employee and dependents
• 40 hours a week with 2,5 days annual leave /month

TO APPLY: Only online by joining a CV and cover letter via the following email: [email protected]. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people living with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

HI promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and its policies (PSEAH, Child Protection etc). HI has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in HI includes, in particular, criminal record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

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