MEAL Officer at International Rescue Committee

MEAL Officer at International Rescue Committee

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Job Overview/Summary: Under the direct supervision of the ERD Manager and in coordination with the program leads in Rakhine State, the MEAL Officer is responsible for the regular preparation, consolidation, and circulation of data collection, compilation, and analysis of reports for all program activities.

By making accurate, reliable, and timely data and information available, the MEAL Officer will contribute to the comprehensive situational analysis in the IDP camps and communities where IRC and its partners provide services, and will support learning, design, and adaptation of interventions in these areas. This position will provide support across all IRC program thematic areas in Rakhine State, currently focusing on ERD programs.

Major Responsibilities:

Management of Information Systems

• Manage the transition of IRC relevant state’s management information system (MIS) from a paper-driven system to a digital system based on mobile data entry using Kobo or CommCare platform.

• Manage all program databases, ensuring that they are regularly updated, cleaned, and that confidentiality is protected where appropriate, including for quarterly assessment process and providing reports to Program leads.

• Coordinate all data entry.

• Coordination with program focal to ensure regular uploads of mobile data containing activity records to IRC’s offline server in the state.

• Aggregate data in a consolidated monthly database and share monthly with the MEAL Managers in Yangon.

• Work to improve presentation of key data through the development of excel dashboards etc.

• Where necessary, revise and upgrade data collection tools and methodologies and ensure maximum harmonization/dissemination among program teams.

• Verify reports formulated by program teams contain all the needed information and are in line with consolidated data collection scheme and priorities.

• Perform sustained monitoring of program indicators including trend analysis. Analyze data and keep the program focal informed about data trends.

• Perform data quality assurance reviews/visits with IRC program staff and partner staff to check and verify their data; provide technical.

Training

• Train all key IRC staff on the use of relevant tools to collect and report key program activity data on time.

• Collaboration with program focal in revising data collection and emergency-specific training schemes for staff.

• Assist in the conduct of specific data and monitor training for-program staff when needed.

• Support the conduct of any relevant training for partners.

Reporting and internal meetings

• Provide timely MEAL reports to program staff.

• Under the guidance of the program focal and Yangon MEAL Managers, extract and send specific reports to other emergency response stakeholders in the State.

• Fill out the monthly Program Indicator Dashboard (PID).

• Contribute to donor report writing by ensuring that data is available and updated, including those from partners.

• Report any changes in locations targeted for each project, including updates in population data including in partners’ locations.

Assessments and evaluations

• Support the conduct of rapid needs assessment where necessary, including but not limited to: Development of forms on Kobo or CommCare.

• Training in data collectors.

• Conduct of data collection.

• Basic analysis and report writing.

• Lead the conduct of relevant assessments and evaluations in targeted locations for all programs including KAP surveys, PDM surveys, baseline and end line surveys, and client feedback surveys.

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Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to : Economic Recovery & Development Manager
Position directly supervises : Nil

Key Working Relationships: The MEAL Officer will work under the direct supervision of the ERD Manager and technical supervision of ERD MEAL Manager. S/He will closely coordinate with partners, and ERD staff as needed for response of outbreak and surveillance of diseases. The MEAL officer will work with partner organizations for data management and reporting with quality assurance.

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