INTRODUCTION
The Danish Refugee Council (DRC), an international non-governmental organization (NGO), has been providing relief and development services in the Horn of Africa since 1997. DRC promotes and supports solutions to the problems faced by refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs), and migrants. The organization has offices across the region, and has been operational in Ethiopia since 2009. With funding from bilateral and multilateral donors, DRC is currently implementing a range of activities across Ethiopia and Djibouti, including WASH and shelter provision, child and youth protection, gender based violence response, awareness-raising of migration risks, protection monitoring of migration routes, and livelihoods support for returning migrants or those at-risk of migration.
OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
The MEAL Manager will be supervising the country MEAL team to provide technical leadership in all monitoring, evaluation, accountability, documentation and knowledge management for all projects, which are implemented by DRC in Ethiopia and Djibouti. The MEAL Manager will coordinate the design and implementation of program monitoring systems and databases for the projects. S/he serves as primary focal point for all the MEAL initiatives and will work in liaison with the Head of Program in indicator measurement, data analysis, regular monitoring, capacity building, evaluation, core humanitarian standards on quality and accountability and learning and knowledge management. S/he will set up and maintain systems to regularly monitor the progress of the various projects against outputs, outcomes and impact, and will report on the progress to relevant program staff and manager and the Head of Program. S/he will work closely with all program staff to ensure best practice and experiences from all staff are carried into the monitoring systems and practice.
With support from the Head of Program, the MEAL Manager will support the managers in ensuring timely submission of all reporting requirements internal or external evaluations and will serve as the primary focal point for contributing to the country office of accountability and learning framework. The MEAL Manager will coordinate with the initiatives and contribute facilitate cross-learning across sectors and field offices within the country offices.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
Key Responsibility’s
Planning and Documentation
Establishing M&E System
Monitoring
Capacity Building
Evaluation Activities
Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality & Accountability
Knowledge Management
Collect lessons learned from different project on a regular bases and share with different stakeholders for future programing
Initiate management response in relation to the lessons learned
Prepare an annual lesson learned and share with the SMT, RO, and HQ
Document and promote good practices, knowledge management and organizational learning around monitoring and evaluation approaches and incorporate lessons learned, best practices and technical innovation in plans and project designs
Other
Experience and technical competencies: (include years of experience)
EDUCATION:
LANGUAGE:
All DRC roles require the post-holder to master DRC’s core competencies:
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