MEAL Associate at GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON)

Sector: WASH and CP

Duration: 4 Months

Deadline: Monday 29th August 2022, by 12 noon.
 

CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a National Non-profit Non-Government Organization with a mandate of Making life better for vulnerable children and women across nations. Following the challenges children are facing to have adequate support from social services and institutions to access basic amenities for their growth and development across nations. GPON is saddled to provide complementary support to vulnerable children across nations to attain personal growth and development. GOALPrime Organization Nigeria is presently operating in Northeast Nigeria and FTC where we have reached over 2,000,000 lives (directly and indirectly) with integrated services, we support internally displaced persons with emergency relief materials, Child Protection services, WASH services, GBV mitigation services, Livelihood skill building, Health services, Peace building and Education support services. GPON work in both emergency and development context.

Job Overview/Summary

The purpose of the MEAL Association position is to coordinate the collection, compilation, consolidation, and analysis of data to track programs/ projects activities, monitor progress and support impact measurement.  S/he will also conduct development research, engage in reflective practice, and generate lessons from projects/program and prepare MEAL plans for the CP and WASH sector.  S/he is responsible for establishing and ensuring better field level data management systems for the core program s/he assigned to and coordinates the proper and timely evaluation of project objectives/impact.  S/he will contribute to the existing client response mechanisms and ensure program staff participation in MEAL activities.  The position holder will closely work with sector manager(s), front line staff, and community volunteers.  S/he also will work closely with the MEAL unit on technical matters and reports to the MEAL Officer

Major Responsibilities

Program/project design and learning (20% of time)

• Participate in program/ project design especially in developing project logframes and also contribute learning from previous projects
• Responsible for the development and continuously update NHF (WASH & CP) integrated project MEAL, and impact measurement tools and systems on timely fashion.
• Support to develop and make sure all the projects in the WASH sector has tested monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators progress;
• Take part in diagnostic studies, evaluations and surveys;
• Responsible for organizing periodical ongoing level data review, reflective practice, evaluation and progress monitoring events;
• With support from the MEAL team members, establish and maintain project level information management system;
• Contribute to designing strategy to collect field level information required by IRC, donors and/or stakeholders;
• Responsible for proactively ensuring networking and sharing of lessons from the WASH core program with strategic partners and other stakeholder including government;
• Responsible for coordinating synergy and cross-learning among different projects;
• Responsible for cross fertilizing learning among projects by regularly producing (compiling) summary monitoring reports and sharing to Health staff and partners.

Monitoring and evaluation (50% of time)

• Responsible for tracking project progress against monitoring work plans;
• Responsible for ensuring the on-time execution of WASH projects major monitoring and evaluation events including but not limited to baseline survey, mid-term evaluation, final evaluation, data quality audit and field supervision;
• Responsible for providing technical support to staff and partner organization on information management system, proper data collection and record keeping;
• Responsible for updating the project MEAL plan timely and provide feedback to program staff on status and quality of implementation.
• Responsible for project monthly and/or quarterly performance indicator analysis, including generation of reports as well as presentations for staff related to on-going performance;
• Responsible for conducting project regular data verification exercises to ensure reporting and collection of quality data;
• Responsible for verifying project entered data for completeness, correctness, and consistency and follow up on any data quality issues;
• Responsible for documenting findings from project data quality audits and store in project files to ensure collective and sustainable access;
• Actively participate in and contribute to MEAL team activities, system assessments, development and implementation of new systems and/or tools aimed at strengthening overall MEAL practices at GPON;
• Accountable for the recruitment of enumerators and support in other survey including engagement of consultants;
• Contribute to providing MEAL inputs for Health report writing during project implementation;

Information management and reporting (10% of time)

• Support in establishing and maintaining project information management system;
• Responsible for submitting project dataset to update country office wide program database on monthly basis;
• Responsible for compiling regular project monitoring report, including lessons learned, prepared by different projects and application of evaluation recommendations;
• Support to ensuring all projects have downward/ forward client responsiveness mechanisms and works with project staff to make sure its implementation;
• Responsible for compiling monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual tabular, and narrative reports (as required by project stakeholders) on projects’ accomplishments by cost and alert the management for special deviations from the plan:

Capacity building and supervision (10% of time)

• Responsible for the orientation of staff and volunteers on the monitoring tools and train them how to use data for decision making;
• Responsible for her/his subordinate/s in completing performance management activities including: performance planning, monitoring, and annual performance appraisals;

Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor (10% of time)

• Perform other task related assignment proposed by his/her supervisor

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: MEAL Officer

Indirect Reporting: MEAL coordinator, WASH Coordinator

Qualifications

• Degree in statistics, computer science/information management/or any other related field;
• Excellent computer skills are required (particularly Advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Kobo toolbox);
• At least three years’ experience working in monitoring and evaluation preferred;
• Strong data collection, analysis, and report writing skills required;
• Ability to work independently, think analytically and take initiative in solving problems;
• Ability to communicate technical issues effectively;
• Familiarity with log frame analysis and MEAL plan;
• Experience in conducting assessments;
• Must be willing to travel to other LGAs to work

Desirable

• WASH background and working with highly vulnerable and displaced people would be added advantage;
• Good verbal communication skills in local languages and working knowledge of English;
• Most importantly, commitment to GPON values and principles;
• A strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with groups of diverse backgrounds.

We strongly encourage female applicants.