Senior MEAL and IM Manager

Travel requirement

50%

Qualification

• Master and/or Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences, information systems, development studies, or a related field.
• Master's degree in relevant field with 06 years of overall experience and 04 years in relevant field in nutrition/development sector.
• Advance use of MS Office complete suit.

Position Objective

The Sr. MEAL & IM Manager is responsible for implementing and strengthening of the MEAL systems  Pakistan. S/he is responsible for providing support in: the development and execution of MEAL plans; development and/or adaption of MEAL tools; documentation and dissemination of key learnings from MEAL and track results in support of the project objectives and outcomes; and ensuring that the MEAL projects is accountable to beneficiaries and other stakeholders in line with ACF-Pakistan Mission and donor policies and practices. The Sr. MEAL &IM Manager undertakes this role in close collaboration with MEAL program staff and partners. S/he will be responsible to support execution of, baseline , end line, PDMs and beneficiaries verifications and validations, support IM mission IM team to create and update the information management

Mission1: Provide technical backstopping to all MEAL and IM field teams.

The Sr. MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Ensure that each of the projects within thematic area is covered by a quality MEAL plan
• Support coordination, analysis and draft findings for the project technical surveys as well as multi sector assessments, generic surveys and evaluations as needed.
• Support the sector team(s) in donor reporting with accurate figures.
• Support MEAL&IM field team in planning and conducting need assessment surveys, baseline, end-line, and PDM for ACF.

·        In coordination with MEAL team support partners in situation analysis (study methodology, tools and approaches) and need assessment for the new project/program development.

Mission 2: Capacity building of the MEAL and IM teams at field level.

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Capacity building of field MEAL&IM teams on monitoring and information management tools and quality benchmarks.
• Help the project team and partners to build their capacity in efficient data collection and management processes

Mission 3: Support in smooth implementation of MEAL Action plan for the mission

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Ensure that each of the projects within thematic area is covered by a quality MEAL plan.
• Implement ACF MEAL Framework
• Support development of program activity data entry tools
•  Support in developing and amending the needed tools for MEAL (Observations, PDMs, Baseline/Edline, Studies, surveys…etc.)

Mission 4: Support in strengthening and implementation the Feedback and Complaint Mechanism (FCM)

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Managing and handling FCM at capital level
• Share FCM report with senior management on monthly basis.
• Follow up on complains with relevant team members.
• Provide training on beneficiary accountability and feedback mechanism to field MEAL&IM team
• Contributes to improvements in partner’s accountability system and procedure.

Mission5 : Support in development and smooth implementation of information systems/database for MEAL and IM

The Sr. MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Provide support in development and management of information systems/database.
• Review and Support field team and development of efficient project information management system
• Review project IM strategy and support accordingly to ensure consistent with national IM strategy
• Ensure that field IM system is aligned with mission IM strategy.
• Review incoming data for completeness and consistency and advise the field MEAL team on the tools for improving data logging, entry and processing.
• Support the field MEAL&IM team and partners to build their capacity in efficient data collection and management processes.

Mission6: Monthly Reporting

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Support project teams to develop the reporting format as per standard HQ format
• Collect monthly quantitative APRs from field at mission level.
• Compile and share bi-annual and annual mission APRs to HQ.
• Provide MEAL and IM regarding feedback in qualitative reports
• Compile and learning at mission level and share with internal and external stakeholders.

Mission 7: Lead the process of MEAL and IM document archiving.

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• With the support of compliance dept develop project archiving plan
• With the support of MEAL&IM Manager ensure that program activities data collected at field level in both soft and hard is complete
• Ensure proper filing of hard data
• By the end of project ensure the complete data received and sorted at Islamabad office as per archiving plan.

Mission 8: HR set up of MEAL and IM at field level.

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Develop/review JDs for MEAL&IM staff at field level
• Conduct and Facilitate the hiring processes of MEAL&IM staff at field and capital level.
• Performance evaluation of field MEAL&IM staff

Mission  5-: Ensure compliance with ACFs gender equality, child protection sensitivity and Safeguarding policies

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

·        Read and ensure a full understanding of ACFs Gender, Child Protection and other safeguarding policies  

• Implement all work related activities with a gender, inclusion and child protection lens
• Help build an inclusive office environment where people do not feel disadvantaged or judged according to their gender or limited due to manageable disability.

Mission 6 : To ensure inclusion accoss programming and within/by the team

The Sr.MEAL & IM Manager  is responsible for:

• Support mission level qualification of gender marker indicators;
• Encourage inclusion within recruitment, training and promotion;
• Ensure inclusion within programme planning, implementation and reporting;

Skills and resources needed to perform the function

• Strong data collection and research skills and ability to interpret and analyze data
• Good interpersonal skills with ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary and multicultural teams
• Strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systematic thinking capacity and skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, knowledge-sharing networks

Relationship

Internal

• DCD Program
• MEAL HoD
• Senior Project Managers
• IM Manager
• MEAL Manager / Officer
• IM Associates

External

• Partner Organizations

Montly Salary: 247K (PKR)

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