Philippines: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Officer - Open for Filipino Nationals Only

JOB PURPOSE

The MEAL Officer is responsible in establishing and managing the MEAL system that will allow the Country Office to effectively and efficiently implement appropriate projects and that lessons are captured and shared to inform implementation of current projects and future programs.

S/he will support the Programme Department in facilitating the periodic planning and reporting processes of the Country Office, spearhead on building capacities of staff on monitoring, evaluation and accountability.

S/he will inform the Country Office on the extent to which assistance are making changes on the lives of target population, provide evidence-based knowledge on the positive and/or negative results of assistance on the communities, and share regular, timely and context-specific feedback from staff, partners and communities. The feedback signals areas where strategic attention is required.

When delegated, s/he represents IRW to a range of external actors, including beneficiaries and other key stakeholders such as local/provincial/national governmental authorities, UN agencies, peer organizations, NGOs, CSOs and the private sector.**MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** Establishing MEAL System***

· Review and understand all organizational policies, strategies and project proposals

· Contextualize the existing IRW MEAL Framework with country specific information and program specific objectives and indicators

· Establish and manage a comprehensive and effective monitoring and evaluation system for all programmes/projects

· Ensure that the organization meets all internal and external MEAL requirements in a timely manner and with credible information

· Strengthen MEAL systems and processes to guarantee progress and achievement toward programme/project outcomes/objectives

· Lead internal and external programme/project evaluations as required and ensure conduct of baseline, midline, endline, assessments and Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) as necessary

· Review monitoring reports and project reports and provide necessary technical guidance to ensure compliance with programme/project requirements for monitoring and evaluation

· Ensure that verifiable data are regularly collected and analyzed across programmes/projects, shared with relevant stakeholders to inform programme/project design and review

· Support Programme Department in ensuring that all programmes/projects are designed and implemented in accordance with international standards (i.e. SPHERE, HAP)

· Support programme/project teams implementation planning, assessment/evaluation planning · In consultation with sector specialists and programme team, develop an information management system (IMS) for the tracking of the project level activities, outputs and outcomes.

Demonstrating Accountability to Affected Populations

· Facilitate the development of an accountability action plan for each project on the given template and keep track of the progress

· Ensure high standard of accountability by setting up community feedback mechanisms and coordinate with the program management on effective use of information and relevant action wherever required

· Establish and maintain comprehensive complaints handling mechanism according to IRW complaints policy and that fulfills CHS requirements. Develop case studies around effectiveness of the complaints handling system and its impact on the program.

· Coordinate with program teams in sharing results of assessments, baselines, reviews and evaluations with beneficiary community and other stakeholders in appropriate format at regular intervals and document the whole process.

· Provide technical assistance and guidance to programme teams on conducting participatory, community-based and inclusive needs assessments.

· Verify the presence of inclusive and participatory beneficiary selection criteria and subsequent selection accordingly.

· Ensure that participation activities are documented and learning is shared

· Ensure that all staff at all levels understand and promote accountability through training and coaching

· Support in producing and sharing good quality reports

· Brief new staff about the Child Protection (CP) policy and Code of Conduct, and about the IRW CP reporting processes should they witness (or know about) a Child Protection incident that is linked with IRW work · Support partners to develop and implement CP policies if they don’t have one

Organization Learning & Capacity Building

· Establish and maintain a system for organizational learning (i.e. develop and maintain a learning log and ensure learning points are embedded at policy and practice levels).

· Coordinate with program management to budget and organize learning events at regular intervals.

· Support identification of innovation in programming and ensure evidence-based results are applied in designing programmes/projects. Ensure the documentation of innovation projects and share results and impact with all stakeholders.

· Identify opportunities to communicate programme/project learning and information sharing/learning exchanges with other actors

· Support Programme and Communications departments in the development of relevant modules and resource materials to support quality programming

· Gather and disseminate stories, case studies, photos, quotes as evidences for change in different projects/programmes

· Conduct orientation sessions around MEAL requirements and identify capacity building requirements around MEAL for Partner organizations

· Supporting colleagues in utilizing MEAL tools for different intervention

· Participate in project design process as team member to ensure prior internal and external learning, community-based and inclusive needs assessment and evidence inform project design · Participate and circulate learnings and best practices in the Global MEAL Community of Practice.

Support to Program Management

· Manage the processes to ensure compliance to Core Humanitarian Standards and IHSAN Standards (IRW Quality Management System)

· Provide technical support in the development of project specific baseline surveys and review the survey reports.

· Ensure in coordination with programme, finance and Head of Mission that relevant MEAL related budgets are incorporated within project budgets.

· Write MEAL related sections of each proposals submitted to any donor.

· Represent Islamic Relief Philippines at relevant coordination bodies and participate in webinars, workshops, meetings and other relevant events national, regional and global levels.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

· Operational MEAL system

· Operational Complaints-Response Mechanism

· Conduct yearly self-assessments and create action plans on IHSAN based scoring

· Timely submission of good quality internal and external reports

· Learnings documented, shared internally and externally as deemed appropriate, and informed programme/project implementation as well as future programmes/projects

· Regular, timely and context-specific feedback, which points out areas where strategic attention is required, provided to management and project implementers

· Extent of assistance to which programmes/projects are affecting the lives of target populations shared with management and project implementers

· Work independently on assigned tasks with minimal supervision

· Work in adherence to IRW’s policies and procedures

Interested applicants should submit their comprehensive resume (in PDF format) at Alyse.Lopez@islamic-relief.org.ph

Only open for Filipino nationals, women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Deadline of submission will be on 19 May 2019.

Islamic Relief Philippines is a humanitarian and development organization working in Livelihood, WASH, DRR and Peacebuilding sectors in line with our vision of a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as one to the suffering of others. We work regrdless of ethnicity, religion, political affiliation or gender.