MEAL Officer – Mogadishu, Somalia

Job announcement

Position Title:

MEAL Officer (1 Position)

Duty Station:

Mogadishu, with field travels to other parts of Somalia

Job type

Full Time

Closing date

30th June, 2023

Reports to

MEAL Manager

Employment period

One year with possibility of extension

About WARDI

WARDI Relief and Development Initiatives a non-profit, non-governmental organization that is a brainchild of a group of professionals from Somalia with different professional skills and abilities to respond to dire humanitarian situation in Somalia after the civil war broke out. With collapse of both public and private institutions and destruction of infrastructure, many people affected and displaced by the war including children and women faced life threatening humanitarian conditions. Wardi was borne out of the urgent need to respond to that situation, alleviate suffering, and save lives. Through the expertise of those who formed, partners and well-wishers, Wardi responded to needs ranging from education, protection, water and sanitation, health, agriculture, and environmental conservation. Wardi Relief and Development Initiatives was founded in June 1993 and is registered in Somalia with the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Federal Government and in Kenya with the NGO Coordination Board. Wardi focuses on supporting the most vulnerable among the communities affected by both man-made and natural disaster through innovative programs that build livelihoods and improves resilience. These programs include provision of technical trainings, cash-based interventions, income generating activities, skills development, and community health. To achieve this, Wardi employs community-based approach in program to identify real problems and find appropriate and sustainable solutions. Wardi also involves communities in planning, implementation and monitoring of its programs for transparency and accountability.

WARDI has a zero-tolerance towards sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse as stipulated in the PSEA policy.

Overall purpose of the position                  

The MEAL Officer will be based in Mogadishu with regular visit to Guriceel and Jalajaqsi for project oversight supervision. The Officer will closely work with project team and WARDI sub-contractors for all monitoring, evaluation, documentation and reporting related tasks of Caritas GFFO project.

Roles and Responsibilities

Programme monitoring

• Responsible for the implementation of the monitoring activities in the field in cooperation with project team.
• Supervise and conduct data collection, stakeholder monitoring, implementation of M&E exercises such as baseline, midterm evaluation and post distribution monitoring
• Responsible for the collection and basic analysis of consistent and reliable data and performance indicators sources
• Assist in coordination across the available components of the project to ensure effective implementation of M&E activities.
• Monitor and evaluate overall progress of project activities to ensure achievements of project results.
• collect and organize lessons learned, success stories, positive impacts, achievements, and case studies to be shared internally and externally by WARDI to its stakeholders.
• Ensure project beneficiaries are well informed of WARDI’s complaint response mechanism and relevant feedback is provided to them.

Data Management

• Identify and promote good practice training for data collection team(Enumerators)
• Improve quality of data through effective and participatory training for project and data collection team
• Support the MEAL manager on development of data collection tools and highlight where the data collection tool needs modification through reviewing and testing the tool
• Participate the data cleaning process by conducting daily data checks when there are ongoing PDM, Baseline, midterms and other project related assessments.
• Conduct data validation exercises, including site visits, project documents’ review (distribution list, attendance list, and other relevant project documents)

Reporting

• Submission of regular field reports including (weekly and monthly) on projects assigned to the MEAL Manager
• Collects, compiles and consolidate M&E outputs to be included in the donor reports
• Ensure record keeping and filling of M&E reports, assessment reports and other important project documents for future referencing.
• Prepare weekly work plan and weekly activity report by submitting the weekly work plan on every Saturday and weekly activity report on every Thursday.
• Carryout other work related tasks as assigned by the MEAL Manager.

Coordination

• To have smooth execution of WARDI projects, support the coordination with local authorities and partners in your area of work
• Improve working relationships with project team, local administration and project partners in your area of work.