MEAL Coordinator

IRC Background:

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.

The IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet needs in protection, health, education, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and conflict-affected communities. The IRC is currently working in partnership with non-governmental organizations and in close coordination with district and local government in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan and Punjab and Sindh provinces.

Job Summary:

Under the direct supervision and guidance of the Deputy Director Programs, the MEAL Coordinator will work with SMT and senior colleagues at country and field office of IRC Pakistan to place effective and efficient MEAL system and the incumbent is responsible for implementing the M&E strategy, and provide leadership to the M&E team to improve specific monitoring and evaluation tools, the analysis of information collected, and ensure consistent M&E support in sectors of Environmental Health, Education, Health, IVAP, Protection, Food security/Livelihoods, specifically Conditional Cash Grants/Cash for Work. S/he liaises with other technical staff to ensure that the cross-cutting issues of gender, protection, and learning and accountability to beneficiaries are addressed in monitoring & evaluation plans.

Responsibilities:

a)      Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

·         Provide strategic leadership to the MEAL and Ethics & Compliance Unit for the IRC Country Program

·         Revise, design and manage standardized ME&L systems and tools to monitor program performance, evaluate the intended impact and incorporate the key learning during and after the projects/programs’ implementations

·         Ensure that all projects and programs have strong M&E plans with clear data collection mechanisms against key deliverables and indicators

·         Build the capacities of programs and MEAL teams to understand and implement the strong MEAL plans for the projects and programs

·         Develop the MEAL and other analytical tools as and when needed and build the capacities of relevant staff

·         Ensure the adherence and mainstreaming of HAP and Humanitarian Charter in general across all projects and programs

·         Develop and share the dashboards for the executive decision making to improve on programming, take corrective measures and develop new programming models

·         Prepare and disseminate regular MEAL Reports to sector coordinators, directors, and donors.

·         Ensure that all programs are designed with strong needs assessment done; and are implemented with strong baselines and end-lines to compare the change and measure achievements

·         Ensure that quality benchmarks for the programs/sectors are established and SOPs to achieve the benchmarks are developed, understood, implemented and consistently monitored

·         Develop and implement a strong mechanism to measure the intended impact of the program through periodical, mid-term and terminal evaluations

·         Contribute significantly to program design based on lessons learned from the program’s M&E, with specific focus on log frame developments

·         Ensure all M&E systems and monitoring plans are in compliance with various donor requirements

·         Ensure compilation and analysis data across the program sites on a regular basis, and assist with writing up the analysis for purposes of donor reports and advocacy

·         Provide input to periodic and other reports and new program proposals ensuring data and information contained therein is up-to-date and accurate

·         Ensure regular MEAL visits by the MEAL team and provide an on the field mentoring support to MEAL team

·         Coordinate and support cross-program M&E activities with other programs and represent IRC as necessary at technical forums/consortiums 

Position Requirements:

• Master’s degree in social sciences, international development from a recognized University.
• Minimum of 8 years programming experience in humanitarian and development context, with a specific focus on M&E
• Proven experience in development of Accountability mechanism, M&E plans, systems and tools for large scale programs.
• Knowledge and skills in various forms of data collection both quantitative and qualitative (i.e. Population-based Surveys, Qualitative Methods, program statistics, facility surveys, Community-based Needs Assessment, etc.) Evidence may asked during the time of interview/test
• Highly developed analytical and communication skills, including excellent oral and written English and Urdu
• Proven experience in training and capacity-building of staff.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, sound judgment, planning, team building and facilitating skills.
• Competence in using information technology including experience with word-processing, spreadsheets and database software.
• Experience in both Humanitarian and Development sector is must.
• Interest in sharing professional skills as well as learning from others.
• Willingness and capacity to work and travel to project field offices in the Country.
• Proven track record of quality performance in highly pressured environments.
• A good sense of humor.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments.

·         The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

·         IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

o   Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children

·         IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

·         IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Women candidates and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply.