Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, July 06, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
As a member of the Restore Africa project team, you will implement MEAL activities, provide MEAL technical support, monitor and report on all project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities in support of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your MEAL knowledge and support will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS Uganda’s programming is and thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the project consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

Job Roles and Responsibilities:
• Support the coordination and implementation of all assigned Restore Africa project MEAL activities as outlined in the Detailed Implementation Plan in line with CRS program quality principles, standards and ensure compliance to the MEAL policies, procedures, and practices; donor MEAL requirements; and industry good practices.
• Provide input to and support project MEAL system design and data collection tools to measure program/project impact and progress.
• Monitor and report any MEAL-related challenges and gaps identified to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules. Assist partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences.
• Lead the roll-out and implementation of the project’s feedback and response mechanism (FRM). Support actively seeking and responding to feedback from all members of targeted communities and other stakeholders as defined by the FRM.
• Support field-level project MEAL activities (including digital data collection) and assist partners in their efforts to collect and ensure timely analysis of project data per specified mechanisms and tools. Collaborate with local partner(s) to prepare MEAL-related aspects of reports per established reporting schedule.
• Conduct data quality assessment from the Restore Africa project activity data collected.
• Collect information on staff MEAL capacity needs and technical assistance needs of partner organizations and monitor MEAL capacity building and technical support activities to ensure effective impact.
• Complete project documentation for assigned MEAL activities. Assist with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising practices.
• Support program learning and decision making by posing thoughtful questions, engaging with project data, reflecting upon and sharing with project management the information gathered from community members and partners.

Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:
• Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in International Development, International Relations or in the field of MEAL required. Additional experience may substitute for some education.
• Minimum of 2 years of work experience in project support. Experience in the field of MEAL and for an NGO is preferred.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data preferred.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Observation, active listening, and analysis skills with ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members
• Attention to details, accuracy, and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Email a cover letter and CV only to ug_recruitment@crs.org  by July 12th 2022 at 5:00pm.
Large files and/or scans of documents will lead to rejection of your application, in the subject line of the email, copy, paste – PROJECTOFFICERMEAL only
All applications that do not contain this exact subject line will be rejected and not read ONLY SELECTED CANDIDATES THAT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED. EOE/M/F/D/V

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