Position: MEAL Officer -PRF-2405-01003-1479

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: Senior MEAL officer

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: June 10, 2024

Summary of the position:

The MEAL Officer is responsible for leading key project MEAL activities and will oversee project-level performance monitoring data and evaluation analysis. Working in collaboration with the MEAL team, the MEAL Officer is responsible for leading the design and implementation of an M&E system, ensuring that SAMS evaluation’s achievements and lessons learned are captured and used for project improvement, and capturing and communicating project outcomes to appropriate audiences.

Key relationships:

Project officer, Grant officer, field team, IM team, subgrants MEAL teams.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Work with the program team to develop a detailed M&E plan for the program based on the project log frame to track progress against intended targets.
• Track the M&E plan and frequently provide the program team with trend analysis of tracked indicators while identifying outliers.
• Work with the MEAL manager and MEAL Team to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective M&E system which will be utilized in monitoring strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in existing programs and services and for reporting on donor commitments as well as producing board summaries.
• Lead program monitoring activities including tool design and analysis in collaboration with the project team.
• Work closely with filed MEAL Officers to ensure that up-to-date monitoring activities are implemented, and data collected for all projects, in line with the project targets, and in a timely manner.
• Ensure all MEAL frameworks for all SAMS’s running projects are in place and updated monthly.
• Build the capacity of the MEAL field team through regular training and coaching to ensure the adoption of monitoring tools and the quality of data collected in line with agreed M&E plans and indicators.
• Conduct field monitoring visits to support the monitoring of the activities of SAMS projects in Turkey.
• Ensure proper training protocols and fieldwork protocols are being followed by the field teams.
• Work with MEAL manager and accountability officer on developing and implementing field needs assessment.
• Strengthen monitoring and evaluation procedures and systems with support from the MEAL Manager.
• Contribute to organizational development of local partners, including the support in developing systems to track progress on capacity building and organizational development of partners.

Coordination and communication

• Identify external, third-party stakeholders that can undertake monitoring/evaluation visits and facilitate and supervise their activities.
• Provide regular feedback to the project team and MEAL manager on project implementation.

Office culture

• Initiate team-building initiatives
• Promote and model a positive, professional, and respectful office culture.
• Ensure effective internal communications

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required:

• University degrees in Data science, Information technology, pharmacy, or other medical studies are preferred.
• Minimum 3 years experience in MEAL Officer position.

Languages:

• Fluent written and spoken in Arabic
• Upper-Intermediate written and spoken English