Action Against Hunger is a leading humanitarian organization fighting
hunger worldwide. Our mission is to save lives by eliminating hunger through
the prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition, especially during and
after emergency situations of conflict, war, and natural disaster. In Kenya, we
are committed to enhancing compliance and accountability in all our operations
to ensure the efficient and ethical use of resources. Action Against Hunger has
been present in Kenya since 2001 and is a transformative leader in Food security
and nutrition for improved quality of life among vulnerable communities. The
organization recognizes gender equality as central to its core strategy towards
realization of effective and sustainable outcomes on nutrition, health, WASH
and surveillance interventions. Action Against Hunger is currently implementing
activities in West Pokot, Mandera, Samburu, Isiolo, Tana River, Nairobi and
Baringo counties.
I.Summary of position
In liaison with the M&E Manager, the holder of this position will be
to provide technical backstopping on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and
Learning (MEAL) for the Action Against Hunger project implementation in the
mission with a roving function. The position holder will participate in project
design specifically in the development of M&E frameworks for the projects
within the targeted areas. The position holder will also collaborate with
communications focal person in supporting the documentation of human-interest
stories, lessons learnt and best practices, ensure implementation meets the key
standards and as per the budget, work-plan and on scope. The MEAL Officer will
spearhead surveys and surveillance activities in collaboration with key stakeholders,
conduct routine project monitoring and spearhead project final evaluation. The
MEAL officer will also be responsible for support of data management cycle in
the bases.
The MEAL Officer: The role has the following
purpose, engagement and delivery: -
·Purpose: To support the
generation of evidence at the base level in Program Monitoring process,
Evaluation activities, Accountability mechanisms and Learning products across
different field bases in the mission.
·Engagement:
-Representing
Action Against Hunger in various county level external meetings on information
management, monitoring and evaluation
-Work
in collaboration with relevant county government in conducting joint surveys,
surveillance, evaluation and monitoring
-Provide
technical support to program team on MEAL Aspects.
-Liaise
with MEAL Manager for technical support and exchange of information,
collaboration and coordination of MEAL activities
-Program
Manager/ Field Coordinator for hierarchical relationship and project
management
·Delivery:
The MEAL officer is responsible to coordinate aggregation and
analysis of routine quantitative reports, design and maintain performance
dashboards and other visualization tools in use, design data collection tools,
generate post distribution monitoring reports, baselines and endlines reports.
The MEAL Officer will manage the routine MEAL data management cycle at County
base offices and share updates to the MEAL manager for dissemination.
II.Essential job functions
1.Survey and surveillance Activities(20%)
-Implementation
of the integrated nutritional surveys and other survey activities in
collaboration of the local authorities and relevant govern procedures/protocols
adherence to Government of Kenya procedures / protocols / guidelines designed
methodology, reporting process, etc.
-Support
in Strengthening the capacity of staff, Ministry of Health, and other partners
in surveys methodologies, processes to include sampling, data collection,
analysis and report writing skills
2.Project
Monitoring ( 50%)
-Develop,
create a framework and procedures for MEAL and strengthen monitoring and
evaluation of the framework and procedures for all project activities and
progress towards achieving the project output;
-Develop
and Maintain Dashboard in Power BI to reflect on program progress
-Monitoring
and conducting review meeting on the Detailed implementation plan (DIP),
jointly with the programs at the bases supported by this position.
-Define
and implement the key project performance indicators (KPI) as well as monitor
them throughout the duration of the projects cycle.
-Provide
feedback to the Project Managers on project strategies and activities to
include suggesting strategies to the Project Management for improving the
efficiency and effectiveness of the project by identifying bottlenecks in
completing project activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate
bottlenecks.
-Assist
in Monitoring and Evaluating program progress,costed work plans and targets accordingly throughout project
implementation.
-Contribute
towards the operationalization of internal project feedback mechanism and
project related accountability mainstreamed in all project and dissemination
done to key stakeholders on quarterly basis
3.Data Management (30%)
-Management
of data reporting cycle by generating internal data reporting calendar, data
collection process, data analysis and data sharing/dissemination.
-Assist
the project managers in collating quantitative and qualitative reports
generated monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual on the progress of the
project activities.
-Maintain
project specific databases and ensures all MEAL related data, reports, and
records are clearly organized archived in a central location for future reference.
-Ensure
the quality of data (timeliness, integral, reliable, valid and complete)
shared/disseminated and that it is verifiable.
-Aggregation,
collation and analysis of incoming data coming from the field bases.
-Analyze
data submitted on a monthly basis and develop key descriptive statistics from
each group’s activity and their progress.
-Conduct
spot-checks to confirm reported activities, reported datasets as a means of
program implementation quality assurance. This can be done collaboratively with
partners or local government officials where applicable.
-Work with MEAL Manager to ensure data
management during the data cycle that will be within relevant timelines so that
the information can be useful for programmatic and strategic decision making
for Program staff, support staff, partners, local government officials and
regional utilization
-Work with MEAL Manager to design
relevant surveys and routine surveillance activities. This includes and not
limited to Baselines, Edline, context monitoring and post distributing monitoring surveys and dissemination of
the findings to key stakeholders at the bases
-Conduct data
review meeting to reflect on the program progress performance at the base level
on quarterly level.
-Support and
participate in the project inception and close out meetings at the national and
county level.
-Work with the
MEAL Manager in capacity building of the program staff on data management and
report writing.
III.Supervisory
Responsibilities
-Coordinate
delivery of MEAL objectives with Enumerators/Data entry clerks
-Initiate
training packages on basics of MEAL to be used by Enumerators/Data entry clerks
routinely or on demand.
IV.Fiscal Responsibility
-TrackCounties
baselevel MEAL activities monthly budget
requests.
-Participate
in development of assessment budget plans.
-Track/analyze
at Counties base level, all Project budget expenditure versus performance.
-Track
performance against the Projects strategy targets.
V.Physical Demands
-While
performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long
periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy
volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations
in the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions. Must be able
to proofread own work accurately so that only minor corrections are needed on
an infrequent basis.
-The
physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by
an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities
to perform the essential functions.
VI.Working Conditions,
Travel and Environment
-The
duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per
week.Must be available to work outside
normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
-Must
be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business
travel as well as to the country offices if appropriate. Based on the country
office needs, the time spent on field trips will be a minimum of a 70% of
his/her working time. While visiting the field, the employee may be exposed to
precarious settings under high security risks and/or very basic living
conditions and outside weather conditions, as well is to infectious diseases.
-The
employee will regularly travel to various bases in the mission as scheduled in
his/her roving function as advised by the MEAL Manager .
VII.Gender Equality
Commitments & Zero Tolerance to Abuse
-Foster
an environment that reinforces values of women and men, and equal access to
information.
-Provide
a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on
their skills and performance.
-Promote
a safe, secure, and respectful environment for all stakeholders, particularly
for children, beneficiaries, and members of staff.
-Help
to prevent any type of abuse including workplace harassment and sexual abuse
and exploitation.
-Respect
beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation,
disability, religion, race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital
status.
-Value
and respect all cultures.
VIII.Required Qualifications
and Professional Experience
-Bachelor’s
degree in a relevant field such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics,
Epidemiology, Public Health, International Development or another field of
social sciences.
-Minimum
2 years work experience on similar position with similar setting and
responsibility.
-Demonstrated
experience in developing project monitoring and evaluation systems.
Requirements
Required Skills &
Competencies
-Demonstrated
analytical skills both qualitative and quantitative approaches (data analysis,
documentation, interpretation and reporting).
-Excellent
interpersonal and communication skills.
-Experience
developing and deploying feedback mechanism for multi-sector program working
through county and national systems.
-Proven
skills in statistical analysis using Excel and Epi-Info / ENA, as well as at
least one other software platform such as Power BI, Nvivo, DHIS 2, ODK/Kobo
collect, SPSS, STATA, or PSPP.
Preferred but not mandatory;
-Previous
experience in Arid and Semi-Arid lands of Kenya
-Knowledge/Use/Experience
of Power BI,
-Experience
in GIS and with a mapping software such as QGIS or Google Earth will be an
added advantage Extensive.
-Experience
in Nutrition and food security surveillance including collection and management
of anthropometric and mortality data.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Comprehensive medical cover
- Pension