Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer, African Youth for Peace Development and Empowerment Foundation [AFRYDEV] at MyIT Consult Ltd

Our client, A reputable NGO; African Youth for Peace Development and Empowerment Foundation [AFRYDEV] is recruiting to fill the position of a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer to manage information, reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about AFRYDEV’s programmatic activities and results. The MEAL Officer will also play an important role in improving information management and data quality, and in strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization and with the Humanitarian and development communities. The MEAL Officer will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of AFRYDEV’s programs, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

About the Organization:

AFRYDEV is a humanitarian and development organization with over 9 years of technical experience in design, development and implementation of youths, women and girls focused interventions in Northeast Nigeria. Since 2013, we focus on interventions that improves well-being and influence positive social mobility as part of our vision of change that drives and promotes safe societies where conflict-affected communities are empowered to prevent recruitment and radicalization of women and youths, including their participation in violence extremist activities, conflict, and gender-based violence. AFRYDEV is working in three major thematic areas of, community engagement, peace building and social mobility with aim of enhancing quality of lives through provision of basic needs and essential services such as food, livelihood, water, sanitation, and basic health care such as Psychosocial Support, Skill acquisition and capacity building initiatives for youth, women, and girls, Wealth creation and access to socio-economic opportunities, Improving youth and women literacy, access to education, including formal and informal education. Employability skills trainings and job placement, Entrepreneurship Programs, access to opportunities for funding’s and start-up resources. Advocacy, Partnership development and Dialogue. AFRYDEV is currently implementing projects in Damaturu, Potiskum, Gujba, Geidam, Yusufari, Yunusari, Nangere and Fune LGAs Yobe State in the areas of Peace building and Social cohesion, Health, Early recovery and livelihood, Protection; Gender Based Violence and Mines Action.

You can visit our website here for further details: www.afrydev.org

About the Position (Task and Responsibilities)

Monitoring:

• As a member of the Monitoring Team, the MEAL Officer shall conduct data collection in the field and execute the methodologies provided by the MEAL Coordinator.
• Undertake periodical monitoring of quality benchmarks and ensure they are part of quality monitoring practices.
• Undertake regular visits to field locations to support monitoring and evaluation processes and contribute to the development and rollout of accountability processes.
• Participate in all other aspects of MEAL, for example, surveys, baselines, evaluations, joint projects monitoring, and reviews/lessons learning workshops/events.
• Produce monitoring checklists and conduct joint field process monitoring, quality assessment, and data validation, and provide feedback and recommendations for timely improvement.

Evaluation and Learning

• Support the MEAL team in organizing and facilitating quarterly monitoring reports, progress reviews and learning sessions.
• Supports the MEAL in the design and implementation of periodic evaluation activities including baseline surveys, research, and evaluations in assigned locations.
• Develop field staff capacities to employ a learning approach to their work. She/he will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and utilization of data for decision-making.

Accountability

• Together with the Project officers and with the support of the MEAL program Manager, undertake accountability activities, including the development and use of information sharing materials and the establishment of complaint response mechanisms.
• This may include ensuring that complaints are logged and addressed in a professional and timely manner and that serious complaints relating to abuse, exploitation, and corruption and reported through the appropriate reporting mechanism within AFRYDEV. 
• Ensure ethical programming of service provision is promoted through reinforcing community consultations using existing feedback mechanisms such as satisfaction surveys, safety audits and post distribution surveys; upholding AFRYDEV PSEA protocols and reporting mechanisms.
• Ensures regular and representative consultation of affected populations before, during and after project implementation to capture community preferences, respective priority needs, and document barriers faced in accessing safe and meaningful assistance and information.

Data Collection & Validation

• Ensure transparent, accurate, and timely data collection for the purposes of the baseline study, real-time evaluation, and post-intervention/ post-distribution monitoring. 
• Conducting training for local enumerators; application of different data collection tools as well as collecting GPS and photographic data from the field.
• Ensure all data collection is done in line with good quality monitoring data, in a timely manner, and organize data received for reporting.
• Ensures the quality of monitoring data reported by field offices through capacity building, supportive supervision, routine checking, and validation of data.

Evaluation and Learning

• Support the MEAL team in organizing and facilitating Monthly/quarterly monitoring reports, progress reviews, and learning events.
• Supports the in the design and implementation of periodic evaluation activities including baseline surveys, research, and evaluations in projects intervention areas
• Develop field staff capacities to employ a learning approach to their work. She/he will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and utilization of data for decision-making.

Reporting & Analysis

• MEAL Officer ensures timely data analysis and preparation of monitoring reports according to AFRYDEV procedures and standards.
• Will support programs in collaboration with project officers in compiling data and write reports accordingly.
• Will support programs with analysis and graphic representation of data for reporting purposes.

Collaboration / Ethical Operating Standards:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with AFRYDEV program staff and the beneficiaries
• Strong knowledge of MS Word and Excel
• Strong understanding of financial management concepts
• Good understanding of Yobe State local context not limited to culture and traditions.
• Fluency in Hausa and Kanuri is an added advantage
• Approachable and good listenership skills 

Qualification and Skills

• Degree or HND  in a relevant field
• 3 years previous experiences in a nonprofit organization is highly desirable
• 3 years of work in similar position is highly desirable
• Proven intellectual capacity and willingness to learn
• Ability to work under pressure, with little or no supervision
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, as well as knowledge of Hausa.

Note

• AFRYDEV is an equal opportunity employer, does not discriminate gender, religion or ethnicity.
• AFRYDEV recruitment and selection procedures do not involve any form of payment to the organization, staff and or any assigned third party, request of such kinds should be immediately reported.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.