Senior SAGAL MEAL Advisor – Mogadishu, Somalia

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TITLE:  Senior SAGAL MEAL Advisor.

TEAM/PROGRAMME: SAGAL, MoPIED (Secondment)

LOCATION: MoPIED, Mogadishu, Somalia

GRADE: 2

CONTRACT LENGTH: 12 months renewable

CHILD SAFEGUARDING

Level 3:  the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Senior MoPIED SAGAL M&E Specialist Advisor will be responsible to provide technical advice in the design and implementation of social protection programming, which includes the design and piloting of social transfer models, the provision of capacity strengthening, advisory, policy and planning support to the SAGAL programme. The Senior MoPIED SAGAL M&E Specialist Advisor will report to the Social Affairs Director and will work with the Senior MoLSA SAGAL Advisor and Senior MoLSA Research Expert Advisor.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Minister of Planning, Investment and Economic Development

Role Dimensions: Save the Children operates across all zones in Somalia and currently has three main area offices and additional 11 field offices. Programmatically Somalia is a large Country Office with more than $110million annual budget and staff over 650 staff

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Contribute to the development and implementation of projects to capture project performance and results, including routine service delivery data reporting, baseline and end line assessments, and all monitoring for process and outcome evaluations.

• Develop and oversee data flow pattern for the program that will ensure timely data collection and reporting.

• Lead results reporting to MoPIED by providing written documentation on M&E activities and indicator results for progress and annual reports, as appropriate.
• Contribute to providing leadership and direction on M&E to ensure the program achieves its goals and corresponding objectives and targets.
• Lead efforts to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making.

• Lead efforts to utilise training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping

• Conduct targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis.

• Cultivate strategic M&E relationships and alliances with other projects and represent M&E activities in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations.
• Promote and support the dissemination of project information among the project team
• Work with project and financial staff to prepare and track progress of project and activity budgets.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

·         holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

·         holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

·         sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

·         widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

·         future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

·         builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

·         values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

·         approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

·         develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

·         willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

·         honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity