Consortium MEAL Coordinator
Maiduguri
- Organization: DRC - Danish Refugee Council
- Location: Maiduguri
- Grade: Mid level - Mid level
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Occupational Groups:
- Education, Learning and Training
- External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Managerial positions
- Closing Date: 2024-10-25
Consortium MEAL Coordinator |
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Supervised by |
Chief of Party |
Reporting to |
Chief of Party |
Duty Station |
Maiduguri, Borno State |
Area of Operation |
Maiduguri, Borno State |
Employment Period |
12 months with possibility of extension |
Type of Contract (Expat/National/Trainee) |
National |
Salary & Benefits |
NM - G |
Introduction
The Danish Refugee Council assists refugees and internally displaced persons across the globe: we provide emergency aid, fight for their rights, and strengthen their opportunity for a brighter future. We work in conflict-affected areas, along the displacement routes, and in the countries where refugees settle. In cooperation with local communities, we strive for responsible and sustainable solutions. We work toward successful integration and – whenever possible – for the fulfillment of the wish to return home.
The Danish Refugee Council was founded in Denmark in 1956 and has since grown to become an international humanitarian organization with more than 7,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers. Based in Copenhagen (Denmark) and present in forty countries, the Danish Refugee Council is a non-profit-making, politically independent, non-governmental and non-denominational relief organization.
Our vision is a dignified life for all displaced. All our efforts are based on our value compass: humanity, respect, independence and neutrality, participation, and honesty and transparency.
Background
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has had an operational presence in Nigeria since 2015. DRC Nigeria is the largest DRC country mission in the West Africa region and one of the largest DRC country missions globally. Currently, DRC delivers life-saving assistance and protection to vulnerable, conflict-affected populations including internally displaced persons, returnees, and host communities in the areas of armed violence reduction, humanitarian mine action, livelihoods, nutrition and food security, protection, shelter, and non-food items (NFI) and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in 30+ Local Government Areas (LGAs) across Borno, Adamawa and states in northeast Nigeria and Sokoto and Zamfara states in Northwest Nigeria.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Consortium MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for MEAL systems development and implementation for the DRC led BHA Consortium, ensuring consistent use of MEAL approaches, data management, client responsiveness, data quality and facilitate learning across teams and consortium partners. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring overall coherence of monitoring and reporting tools, and coordination of data compilation from all consortium members. He/she will have a strong working relationship with the DRC MEAL team as well as the consortium team for additional technical support. The role requires extensive MEAL experience and good understanding of organizational MEAL approaches and understanding of working in a consortium led project. As a member of the Consortium Management Unit, the Consortium MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring MEAL Working Group meetings take place with partners and will provide targeted support and capacity building as required
The main responsibilities and tasks of the Consortium MEAL Coordinator.
Responsibilities:
System Design and Promoting MEAL:
- Develop the overall BHA program MEAL Plan in alignment with BHA MEAL guidelines.
- Lead implementation and reporting based on the MEAL Plan, including accountability, community engagement and participation, learning, PDM, course adaptation and endline/evaluation.
- Build strong relationships with all consortium partners, including providing tools, expertise and other support to ensure that the MEAL Plan is understood and delivered with high quality and reliability.
Monitoring:
- Establish the overall program Indicator Tracking Table (ITT) based on the BHA indicator definitions and lead roll out to all consortium partners to ensure a consistent approach;
- Regularly monitor the ITT reporting, tracking and progress to ensure timely and quality inputs; as well as provide analysis to the for PIU Management for discussion and action with Consortium Partners and the Consortium Steering Committee, as needed.
- Use process level monitoring to undertake field monitoring visits, focusing on program quality aspects, discuss with relevant staff and share reports with relevant colleagues.
- Support Consortium MEAL staff in PDM activities, ensuring that tools and processes are consistent to allow collation of data for program monitoring, learning, course-correction and improvement in collaboration with the PIU team.
- Perform regular field visits to ensure the quality of data collected by program staff and to verify the accuracy of reported data.
- Lead and coordinate with partners the donor Third Party Monitoring process
Baselines, Endlines, Evaluations, dissemination, and learning:
- Provide technical leadership and coordination for program evaluations, baseline and end-line assessments in collaboration with consortium partner organizations.
- Work via the PMU to support consortium partners to conduct periodic Lessons Learned workshops and implement a systematic way of documenting and disseminating lessons learned such as developing lessons learnt trackers to help increase program level knowledge and improve future interventions.
- In consultation with the Chief of party, coordinate and technically supervise consultants who are hired to deliver some components in the Consortium MEAL framework.
Support accountability systems to facilitate stakeholder feedback and participation:
- Coordinate with consortium partners to ensure effective feedback and response mechanisms are in place to support accountability to affected children, adult and communities in alignment with BHA guidelines.
- Coordinate and support MEAL team from consortium partners for all required reporting and develop tools and that consolidate consortium-wide data to ensure donor requirements are met at programme level..
Planning and Reporting:
- Provide support to consortium partners in preparation and reviewing of program plans and program reports, ensuring that program reports meet DRC and donor reporting standards;
- Coordinate and develop the delivery of all MEAL aspects of donor reporting, including monthly, semi-annual and annual reporting.
- Consolidate, analyze and interpret all consortium-wide data, and develop evidence-based data.
- Communicate the evidence-based data for program improvement
Capacity building:
- Provide formal and ad-hoc capacity-building support to the consortium MEAL and program staff, as needed, based on knowledge gaps and needs identified during the delivery of MEAL activities and/or on request of consortium partners, where possible.
Perform any other duties as directed by the Chief of Party
Qualifications
Experience and technical competencies: (include years of experience) Essential
Desirable
Education:
A Master’s degree in relevant field + at least 5 years of relevant experience Languages: (indicate fluency level)
Key stakeholders: (internal and external)
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Application Process
Are you interested? Then apply for this position on line: www.drc.dk/about-drc/vacancies/current-vacancies. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English.
DRC provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.
DRC encourages all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.
However, all applicants shall take into consideration that DRC cannot offer an international work contract to a citizen of the country of assignment (in this specific case, Nigeria)
Applications close on 25th October 2024 at midnight (GMT-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.
Due to the urgency of the position, DRC has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.