SENIOR MONITORING, EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING (MEAL) OFFICER

• About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issues.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

MEAL system development and make functional.

•      Lead Oxfam Ethiopia programmes, projects, and consortium members in the development of a program Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) framework with indicators for output, outcome and impact and, lead the development of a strategy that informs effective programme delivery by relevant program staffs at all levels.
•     Provide MEAL technical support including MEAL activity plan, methodological design, need assessments, baseline, post distribution monitoring, evaluations and performance data collection for all Oxfam projects.
•    Work closely with Program quality and Learning/MEAL team and develop MEAL tools and MEAL activities for new projects and programs.
•     Timely plan, initiate, lead and coordinate different evaluations, assessments and surveys including KAP surveys/PDMs and Baseline/End line surveys in line with Oxfam Policies and standards.
•      Lead the design and development of innovative tools, apps, templates, and resources for effective programme monitoring and reporting.
•   In consultation with Program Managers, PQL team, EFSVL, WASH, Gender and Protection technical team leaders and other program team, develop evaluation designs, including specification of the necessary staff and resources to conduct the evaluation.
•    Guide, Monitor/supervise and coordinate baselines, assessment, evaluations and select and recruit experience enumerators for data collection with project partaners.

Capacitate, Coordinate, and strengthen the data management, data analysis, CRMs, reporting and information use of IPs implementing the project.

•   Works with grant and partnership unit on contract management; technical oversight; and capacity-strengthening on issues such as accountability, monitoring, documentation, reporting and compliance of IPs.
•    The position holder will work for all project Somali region MEAL activities.
• Work with partner MEAL staff in ensuring the best standards are adhered to, will be expected to visit partner offices and work alone with them in completing key MEAL tasks.
•    Work with the PQL team members in developing/reviewing log frame/result framework, MEAL plan and Indicator Performance Reporting Table (IPTT) of the project(s) and preparing & submit the IPTT report monthly.
•   Coordinate and work closely with partners’ MEAL staffs designated for the project.
•    Support feedback and accountability mechanisms; harmonized monitoring and evaluation mechanisms; and visibility and communication plans with IPs.
•   Support the Consortium members MEAL teams in compiling & reporting total number of beneficiaries reached as per their respective guidelines.
•     Work with the Consortium members MEAL team in documenting best practices in line with the donor communication and visibility guidelines
•       Work closely with all MEAL team at all levels and establish and implement digital and offline database system.
•      Lead and supervise field data collection, data cleaning and analysis for program managers and team leaders and produce report together with sector technical team.
•    Lead, reviews, revise and update all survey and evaluation reports and ensure data quality including timeliness, relevance, accuracy, completeness and consistency of all program and project data of Oxfam.
•     Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high quality data collection.
•     Management and updating central database of KAP surveys end-term results and learning from reflection workshops, learning reviews and evaluations.

Capacity Building, Networking and Representation

•  Build the capacity of IP staffs through training to ensure adoption of new data monitoring tools and quality of data collected.
•    Attending Coordination forums that includes humanitarian accountability.
•   Facilitate capacity building for Oxfam program staffs to enable them monitor and evaluate their own efforts, gather relevant data, and produce required progress reports.
•  Ensure effective common understanding between Oxfam, other partners and Consortium members on MEAL objectives and frameworks and organise orientation / workshops / training.
•  Support Oxfam and other partners and MEAL members in undertaking trainings needs assessment and organizing MEAL trainings/Inductions as per the CAMSA guideline.
•   Lead MEAL Technical Working Group (TWG) and follow ups on MEAL activities that need to be undertaken at consortium level.
•   Oxfam’s M&E team will lead both the baseline and endline data collection, analysis and reporting with support from the consortium members in respective locations.

Program Quality, Learning and Accountability

•    Ensure compliance and feedback mechanism, collect beneficiary complaints, and feedback and communicate with Partner field team.
•     Collect and share monthly monitoring and accountability reports.
•      Support the team in the delivery of learning and reflection workshops and other programmatic learning processes and products.
•      Collecting best practices, case studies which demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.
•      Support the setup of a complaint and response mechanism based on the IDPs and host community contexts,
•       Assure that ICT is used in Beneficiary registration and Data collection in line with the Project MEAL framework.
•      Promote and support monitoring, analysis and learning from assessments of internal standards (Quality Framework) and Core Humanitarian Standards, accountability and transparency standards, protection minimum standards, and others.
•      Work with the responsible programme or project teams to develop a culture of programme quality and knowledge-driven programming, providing support to management for evidence-based decision-making processes.
•      Ensure that all MEAL work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to gender and protection issues.
•     Maintaining evaluation, research and learning repositories

People development and management

•   Manage and support teams to deliver on the plans, providing coordination, leadership, inspiration, and guidance.
•      Facilitate identification of needs, planning, and implementation of Oxfam and partner’s, long term and humanitarian response team capacity building in MEAL and build capacity of Oxfam and partner staff to deliver MEAL, including through induction, training, and coaching.
•     Work with the MEAL Coordinator to ensure that the management of teams is in line with Oxfam’s HR policies and procedures.
•    Work with the MEAL Coordinator to ensure that team members have access to staff development opportunities, identify and addresses capacity gaps and provide ongoing counselling and support team members.
•    Undertake other responsibilities as assigned by the line manager.

Other

•    Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values (click here) as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights (click here).
•       Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff safety health and wellbeing principles.
•     The post holder expected to be familiar with and abide by the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol; including safeguarding.
•   Depending on the situation, the post holder may be asked to perform other tasks as requested by the Manager.

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:

Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE AND EQUALITY

Our Values

• Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities.
• Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
• Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
• Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
• Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
• Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.

Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:

Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:

Read this guide to find out more about what our values, organisational attributes and feminist leadership approach mean for how we work

Essential

• Relevant qualification; MSc or BSc. in Economics, Development studies, Statistics/Management, or another related field.
• Proven ability & experience in programme monitoring, evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) – Minimum 5 years preferably in long term, humanitarian, advocacy and campaign programmes and local contexts in Ethiopia, Knowledge of Nexus approach is desirable.
•    Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
•     Knowledge and practice of SAFE programming and international standards like Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), SPHERE, LEGS etc
•      Excellent computer skills and ability to work in a challenging and dynamic context.
•      Willingness to work in Somali Region of Ethiopia.
•       Excellent English writing skills.
•        Fluent English language, ability to communicate in Local language would be an added advantage.
•       Commitment to overcome poverty and suffering.
•        Proven experience in gender analysis and integrating gender and safe programming(protection) into programmes.
•       Ability to work well under pressure and in response to changing needs.
•        Ability to travel and to work in difficult circumstances.
•        Fluency in English is essential.

Desirable

•    Experience managing partners especially local NGOs.
•        Experience in knowledge management and documentation of key learnings
•   Experience of working effectively within a large international agency including, in long term and Emergency response setting.
•      Research background and knowledge of statistical packages (SPSS or STATA)
•     Good understanding of WASH, Protection, Gender and EFSVL programming in programming
•     Prior experience training/accompanying/learning in the field.
•     Experience leading strategy development and implementation monitoring in collaboration with staff
•    Proven ability to synthesize and distil information from a variety of sources, to draw lessons from project documentation.
•    Applicant with knowledge of local language is preferable.