MEAL Coordinator

MEAL Coordinator

Solidarites International

Kyiv, Ukraine

About the job

General objective:

The MEAL Coordinator provides methodological support to all the program teams. S/he also guarantees the quality and the relevance of any monitoring activities, internal and external evaluations carried out on the mission, together with any recommendations and analysis provided. S/he is involved with lessons learned capitalisation. The MEAL Coordinator jointly develops SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL strategy, by providing a MEAL strategy for the programs in terms of monitoring, evaluation and integration of any “cross-functional issues” (protection, accountability to affected populations, community participation, disability inclusion, etc.).

The MEAL Coordinator is also responsible for managing periodic MSNAs to ensure that SI's interventions are relevant to changing needs. The MEAL Coordinator will also be responsible for rolling out the new referrals processes, including providing training for teams. Finally, the MEAL Coordinator is also responsible for overseeing the monitoring and evaluation of SI's national partners. The MEAL Coordinator supports the Grants department through indicator tracking, and ensures that MEAL aspects of project management tools are in place prior to the start of each project.

The MEAL Coordinator supports the SMT with decision making, and contributes to the implementation of Project Cycle Management.

The main challenges:

Turnover of international staff in late 2024/early 2025 provides lots of opportunities for new ways of working and collaboration, but does risk loss of institutional knowledge. The outgoing MEAL Coordinator has worked with the country program for over two years, so the new MEAL Coordinator will need to take the time to build the level of knowledge of their predecessor, whilst still under pressure to deliver and oversee MEAL activities on active projects.The MEAL Coordinator will need to quickly build relationships with staff in field bases and Coordination to build understanding of the mission and challenges, whilst supporting the immediate pressures of multi-base, multi-donor programs balanced with mid- and long-term work to implement new process. The MEAL Coordinator is expected to make regular trips to field offices to support base MEAL teams, all of whom are now national.

SI is working in partnership in Kharkiv, and significant monitoring, support and capacity building of the partner is required. The MEAL Coordinator will need to actively contribute towards this.

The MEAL Coordinator will need to actively contribute to the MEAL working group as part of a 5-NGO BHA-funded 'Dorijka' consortium. This will include incorporating feedback from the external evaluation of the consortium in 2024.

The MEAL Coordinator will need to support the Deputy Data Manager who is making significant progress in streamlining and standardising SI's data collecting and management, and use of project management tools.

Priorities for the 2/3 first months:

• Lead on supporting field offices to conduct effective secondary data reviews and needs analysis, to ensure that SI's activities are designed to be responsive to actual needs and appropriate to the context
• Actively contribute to Project Cycle Manager and SMT meetings and decision making, supported by data-driven analysis, presenting high level findings from base-level FCRM analysis
• Contribute to the final reporting on a long-running ECHO project that has included multiple MRs and a national partnership
• Contribute to the successful start of a new anticipated ECHO project, with a full MEAL Plan and indicator tracking tool, including a MEAL Plan and capacity building for SI's national partner
• Plan and launch the next MSNA

Your profile

DIPLOMAS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Project Management or similar
• Experience in the humanitarian sector: 3-4 years
• Experience on a similar position: 0-2 years

SKILLS:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Experience in the full range of MEAL activities
• Experience of proposal development
• Experience of assessments, and ideally leading on MSNAs. Detail oriented with analytic and critical thinking skills
• Experience of strategy development
• Communications skills: understanding ethical communication, experience developing communication products relevant to external stakeholders

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:

• Communication skills to ensure lead interdepartmental coordination
• Management skills to supervise the team and build their capacity.
• Communication and external representation

LANGUAGES:

• English (mandatory)
• French (desirable)

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