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 Assistant will spearhead surveys and surveillance
activities in collaboration with key stakeholders, conduct routine project
monitoring and spearhead project final evaluation. The MEAL Assistant will also
be responsible for support of data management cycle in the bases.
The MEAL Assistant 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 Assistant
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 Assistant will
manage the routine MEAL data management cycle at capital office and share
updates to the MEAL manager for dissemination.
II.Essential
job functions
Survey and surveillance Activities
-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
Project Monitoring
-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 basisData Management
-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 data collectors.
-Initiate training packages on basics of MEAL to be used by
data collectors routinely or on demand.
IV.Fiscal
Responsibility
-Track Mission level MEAL activities monthly budget
requests.
-Participate in development of assessment budget plans.
-Track/analyze at Mission and base level, all Project
budget expenditure versus performance.
-Trackperformance
against the Mission 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.
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.
Requirements
I. 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.
II. 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.
III. 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
- Comprehensive medical cover
- Flexible working hours
- Pension