Senior MEAL Officer

Position: Senior MEAL Officer -PRF-2410-01002-1532

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: IMU/MEAL Manager

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: October 22, 2024

Summary of the position

The Senior MEAL Officer is responsible for leading key project MEAL activities and will oversee project-level performance monitoring data and evaluation analysis. Working in collaboration with the MEAL manager, the Senior M&E Officer is responsible for leading the design and implementation of an M&E system, ensuring that SAMS evaluation’s achievements and lessons learned are captured and used for project improvement, and capturing and communicating project outcomes to appropriate audiences.

Key relationships: 

Project officer, Grant officer, Syria field officers, IM officer.

 Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Work with the program team to develop a detailed M&E plan for the program based on the project log frame to track progress against agreed indicators.
• Track the M&E plan and frequently provide the program team with trend analysis of tracked indicators while identifying outliers.
• Work with the MEAL manager and MEAL Team to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective M&E system which will be utilized in monitoring strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in existing programs and services and for reporting on donor commitments as well as producing board summaries.
• Lead program monitoring activities including tool design and analysis in collaboration with IMU and the project team.
• Work closely with filed MEAL Officers to ensure that up-to-date monitoring activities are implemented, and data collected for all projects, in line with the project targets, and in a timely manner.
• Ensure all MEAL frameworks for all SAMS’s running projects are in place and updated on a monthly basis.
• Build the capacity of the MEAL field team through regular trainings and coaching to ensure the adoption of monitoring tools and the quality of data collected in line with agreed M&E plans and indicators.
• Ensure proper training protocols and fieldwork protocols are being followed by the field teams.
• Work with MEAL manager and accountability officer on developing and implementing field needs assessment.
• Strengthen monitoring and evaluation procedures and systems with support from the MEAL Manager.
• Contribute to organizational development of local partners, including the support in developing systems to track progress on capacity building and organizational development of partners.

 Coordination and communication 

• Identify external, third-party stakeholders that can undertake monitoring/evaluation visits and facilitate and supervise their activities.
• Provide regular feedback to the project team and MEAL manager on project implementation.

Office Culture:

• Initiate team-building initiatives
• Promote and model a positive, professional, and respectful office culture.

• Ensure effective internal communications

   

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required.

• A university Degree in computer science, Information technology, English literature, Pharmacy or other related backgrounds.

• At least 3 years of experience as a MEAL Officer & Information Management Officer.

   

Languages:

• Fluent written and spoken in Arabic language (mother tongue).
• Upper-intermediate written and spoken in the English language. 

Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Humanitarian Principles
• Project Cycle Management
• Mobile-based Data Collection Tools
• M&E Standards & Ethics
• Remote Management Tools
• MS – Excel
• MS – Word

CONTRACT CONDITIONS

The salary will be defined according to the SAMS Turkey Office salary scale.

Interested candidates may please send their resumes and fill out the application at the following link:

https://recruitment.sams-hr.com/