MEAL Assistant
Job Description:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the world, providing relief, rehabilitation, and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of oppression and violent conflict. IRC has worked for over seven decades in the world addressing both the immediate, lifesaving needs of conflict-affected people in an emergency and the reconstruction needs in post-conflict societies. IRC is committed to a culture of ambitious leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships, and detailed accountability to those we serve.
Statement of responsibilities:
The MEAL Assistant is part of the M&E department and will work closely with the field based M&E Officer and CR Officer based in Addis Ababa. The MEAL Assistant will be responsible for ensuring the implementation of robust client feedback channels at their respective locations. These may include design and administration of surveys, focus group discussions, proactive and reactive feedback mechanisms. The MEAL Assistant will be responsible for aggregating client feedback, identifying key themes and challenges or opportunities to respond to, and presenting these to the management team for a decision on how to respond. The MEAL Assistant will also be responsible for recording and monitoring feedback, and for ensuring that the loop is closed, an clients are informed of decisions taken.
MEAL Assistant Responsibilities:
Feedback Planning and Implementation:
· Collect client feedback through various channels that IRC installs including community meetings, surveys, discussions, phone lines, suggestion boxes, SMS among others.
· Regularly update the excel based Feedback Registry on every day basis and raise cases including breach of IRC code of conduct, allegations of child abuse or sexual exploitation and other major programmatic complaints.
· Receive, record and classify complaints for attention by the MEAL Officer and refer to the respective sectors.
· Collect response from the program staff on the feedback and communicate back to client
· Facilitate the preparation of CRA logistics before field visits e.g. paper based data collection tools, promotional materials etc.
· Ensure accurate and confidential filing of CRA reporting forms such as client feedback form, Feedback Registry, surveys, interview, minutes from community meetings, reports, datasets among others
· Generate reports on the implementation and use of feedback channels, per sector, including limitations and challenges.
Feedback Monitoring, Reporting, and Response:
· Aggregate and dis-aggregate client feedback (according to gender, age, status, sector, risk-level and other client appropriate dis-aggregation).
· Present statistics on feedback received and feedback content in clear formats to highlight feedback trends to the program team, as well as synthesize qualitative feedback in ways which provide the detail that the program team will need to design an appropriate response.
· Analyze key themes, challenges, and opportunities for program improvement.
Provide support to the M&E Office to conduct ongoing monitoring and evaluation activities
Job Requirements:
· BA degree or Diploma/Level IV in social science and other relevant field of studies
· 1 year work experience for BA Degree and 2 years work experience for Diploma holders
· Analyze and communicate data in a way that facilitates effective decision making
· Proactively engage with clients and community members, acting as a community liaison focal point
· Driven and able to balance multiple task, commitments, and to work flexibly in a team
· Creativity, curiosity and enthusiasm, and the ability to develop and test new ways of working and solutions to problems
· Strong oral and written communications in local language and Amharic is required.
Desirable:
· Working experience with refugees and/or IDPs, and an understanding of the feedback channels preferred by displaced people.
· Experience in implementing feedback channels. These may include surveys, FGD, hot lines, suggestions boxes, open feedback etc.
· Written and verbal communication in English is an added advantage.
· Passionate about humanitarian work and assistance.
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How To Apply:
Candidates meeting the above qualifications are encouraged to apply only through the
below IRC On-line recruitment website:
External:https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/42023?c=rescue
Internal: https://rescue.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/42023?c=rescue
Please include 3 references
Your application letter/cover letter must include the following information.
· Name of the position you have applied for
· Date of application
· Summary of your qualifications and experience
· Motivation/objective of why you have applied for the job
· Please include at least 3 references from current and former supervison
Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply!
Posted:05.19.2023
Deadline:05.25.2023
Job Category:Economics
Employment:Full time
Location:Hawassa, Sidama
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