MEAL Assistant-Mosul

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.

BACKGROUND

The IRC established programs in Iraq in 2003 to address the overwhelming needs of displaced people in Iraq and the neighboring countries. Since re-establishing its presence in Iraq in November 2007, the IRC has been assisting thousands of internally displaced families in the northern, central and southern governorates in the sectors of protection, gender-based violence (GBV), education, economic recovery, child Protection and emergency humanitarian assistance. Working in coordination with the humanitarian community in Iraq, the IRC's assistance and emergency programs address the needs of war-affected Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Syrian refugees from several operational bases in the country, and include both camp-based and urban-based assistance. IRC operates throughout Iraq, with the main office in Erbil and field offices in, Baghdad, SAD, Anbar and Mosul.

Position Overview

Under the direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, The Monitoring and Evaluation assistant contributes to enhancing the quality of the IRC Humanitarian Emergency Response programming through ensuring minimum quality standards are applied in monitoring measures. He/she contributes toward the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of IRC. In addition to programme data management for quality purposes.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct data collection like Post Implementation Monitoring, Observations, Market Surveys, Price monitoring, verification, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KII) with different persons of different age groups (children, youth, adults) and different gender.
• Entering and cleaning the data from Post implementation monitoring, FGDs, observations and KIIs, participate in data analysis and draft reports.
• Support helpdesk to respond and collect beneficiary’s feedback through complaint/suggestion box
• Conduct field visit to program activities in order observing them
• Conduct training for casual workers on data collection methodologies
• Provide supervision for quantitative data collection activities
• Conduct data quality checks in the field and ensure accuracy and completeness of survey questionnaires
• Supervise all M&E Casual workers (Enumerators and Data Entry clerks)
• Participate in the baseline, mid-term and end of term evaluations of programmes in accordance with the M&E standards
• Ensure that hard copies of data collected is kept at project sites.
• Plan with M&E Officer data collection needs and activities.
• Prepare informative field reports, identify shortcomings and make relevant recommendations on a regular basis.
• Any other relevant task as required

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:MEAL officer
Position directly supervises:

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Other Internal and/or external contacts: this position will be working with all active programs in Mosul and Sinjar through conducting field visits.

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