Action for Humanity Organization is a non-governmental, non-profit, neutral organization that looks
forward to rebuilding human life and building a generation capable of advancing society by providing
them with all the necessities of life such as food, medicine, education, medical aid, and water.

Note: Due to the urgency of this position, CVs will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the vacancy can be
filled before the specified closing date.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ROLE:

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer manages information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about ACTION FOR HUMANITY programmatic activities and results. The MEAL Officer will also play an important role in improving information management and data quality, and in strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization. The MEAL Officer will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of organization programs, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

·         Bachelor’s degree

Skills & Abilities:

·         Good Excel and Word skills and experience in other Office applications.

·         Good Arabic & English (working level) skills.

·         Ability to take direction but also to work independently on own initiative.

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General Description of the Role & Main Responsibilities:

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer manages information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about ACTION FOR HUMANITY programmatic activities and results. The MEAL Officer will also play an important role in improving information management and data quality, and in strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization.

The MEAL Officer will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of organization programs, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

·         Raising and following up on all documents related to implementing project MEAL activities within the appropriate time of the work plan.

·         upporting MEAL coordinator in cleaning and analyzing data process.

·         Assist in preparing all project-related MEAL draft reports (PDM, Pre/Post KAP, Base/Endline, verification, etc.) within the agreed timeframe.

·         Design and set up the full program complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) and information-sharing system – including child-friendly versions that are sensitive to gender and diversity.

·         Responsible for tracking and reviewing of Accountability Implementation Plan

·         Assess the information and database to ensure that data is being collected and managed promptly and effectively.

·         Ensure adequate monitoring, reporting, and acquittal of project activities by humanitarian accountability framework, relevant SPHERE standards, and essential environmental mitigation measures.

·         Understand and carry out his duties by humanitarian principles, core values, Child Protection Policy, and the Code of Conduct.

·         Support beneficiary accountability and participatory approaches throughout the program cycle.

·         Comply with the Action for Humanity confidentiality policy ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to Action for Humanity practices and beneficiaries.

·         Reporting any problems that may arise during implementation of the project

·         As a member of the Monitoring Team, the MEAL Officer shall conduct data collection in the field and execute the methodologies provided by the MEAL coordinator.

·         Undertake regular visits to field locations to support monitoring and evaluation processes and contribute to the development and rollout of accountability processes.

·         Participate in all other aspects of MEAL, for example, surveys, baselines, evaluations, joint projects monitoring, and reviews/lessons learning workshops/events.

·         Produce monitoring checklists and conduct quarterly joint field process monitoring, quality assessment, and data validation, and provide feedback and recommendations for timely improvement.

·         Develop field staff capacities to employ a learning approach to their work. She/he will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and utilization of data for decision-making.

·         undertake accountability activities, including the development and use of information sharing materials and the establishment of complaint response mechanisms.

·         Ensure transparent, accurate, and timely data collection for baseline study, real-time evaluation and post-intervention/ post-distribution monitoring. It involves field visits to project locations; conducting training for local enumerators; application of different data collection tools as well as collecting GPS and photographic data from the field.

·         Ensure all data collection is done in line with good quality monitoring data, promptly, and organize data received for reporting to the MEAL coordinator.

·         Ensures the quality of monitoring data reported by field offices through capacity building, supportive supervision, routine checking, and validation of data.

·         Will support programs in collaboration with project officers in compiling data and writing reports accordingly.

·         Will support programs with analysis and graphic representation of data for reporting purposes

·         Supervises field-level MEAL staff during data collection exercises being conducted in the Field.

·         Support field-level MEAL staff during the implementation of their tasks such as Data collection, entry, cleaning, collation, validation, etc

Only accepted applicants by the country office based in IRAQ will be contacted.
Action for Humanity is committed to maintaining all necessary measures to protect and promote the
well-being of all individuals who have a direct and/or indirect relationship with the organization and
expects all staff, volunteers, consultants, and suppliers to share this commitment.

Action for Humanity doesn’t discriminate in its recruitment process against any race, religion, or gender and maintains a transparent recruitment process. The humanitarian intervention of Action for Humanity has no political, or religious affiliation nor has any monetary purpose.