Meal Officer at Future Resilience and Development Foundation (FRAD)

Job Summary

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer will manage information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication in an organization's activities and results. He/she will play an important role in improving information management and data quality, and in strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization.
• The MEAL Officers will also be responsible for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of programs, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for projects, as well as for funding proposals.
• Develop the overall framework for project MEAL systems in collaboration with donor and senior project staff, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance.
• Facilitate the design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during the annual work-planning process.
• Ensure the alignment of MEAL activities with program goals.
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure the inclusion of MEAL activities.
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions.
• Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Analyze data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes.
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submitting to ensure superior quality and professionalism
• Contribute to developing and reporting project reviews, assessments, surveys, and other analytic or evaluation processes and products.
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned; champion the scaling up best practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements
Education:

• Degree or equivalent in any relevant field.

Experience and Technical Competencies:

• 1 - 3 years experience in planning for monitoring and evaluation.
• Computer skills, especially in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel
• IT literate.
• Experience in Electronic Data Collection.

Desirable Skills:

• Proficiency in the use of the Kobo toolbox and research.
• Previous experience using analysis tools (Excel, SPSS, or Power BI)
• Proven success in designing, implementing and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
• Willingness and ability to travel.
• Experience in planning and managing surveys, developing and refining data collection tools, and with data quality assessments and oversight.
• Proven success in designing, implementing and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.
• Communication skills (English, Hausa,and Kanuri is added advantage).