MEAL Manager II: Nutrition, World Bank

MEAL Manager II: Nutrition, World Bank

CRS – Catholic Relief Services

Sudan

Job Summary

You will provide technical leadership of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) activities of the World Bank funded SOMOUD project in East Sudan. You will be responsible for rolling out CRS’ MEAL Policies and Procedures, Donor MEAL requirements, ensuring cross-learning, creating systems for accountability to beneficiaries, donors and stakeholders, and to build capacity of MEAL staff. Your management skills and knowledge will ensure that SOMOUD delivers high-quality programming and continuously works towards improving the impact of SOMOUD project. You will work closely with CRS program teams and partner staff to develop high quality monitoring systems and tools which address indicators set out in SOMOUD project. You will lead MEAL activities in various locations and proactively ensure high program quality and donor compliance.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Provide management guidance, and technical lead for the SOMOUD’s MEAL systems and processes throughout relevant project cycles that meet CRS’s MEAL policy and procedures, donor requirements, and local regulations for all targeted states (East Darfur, West Darfur, Central Darfur, and Khartoum);
• Provides technical lead for quality MEAL design, including tools and methods, appropriate to scope, context, and technical requirements of SOMOUD including assessments, evaluations, and learning events;
• Ensures compliance with donor and agency MEAL requirements;
• Provides technical lead for analysis of MEAL data, qualitative and quantitative;
• Ensures quality of data and data management practices;
• Integrates data analysis, reflection and interpretation and use with ongoing project activities;
• Plans and budgets appropriately for quality MEAL activities through planning and oversight, ensure efficient use of project resources;
• Oversee project communications materials in coordination with relevant staff;
• Communicates agency approach of MEAL and key findings to the regional MEAL colleagues;
• Cultivates relationships with community members and stakeholders;
• Builds capacity of MEAL officers and agents, partners to address their job requirements;
• Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching and mentoring. Strategically tailor individual development plans and complete performance assessments for direct reports. Contribute to the development of staffing plans and the recruitment process of senior staff;
• Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies. Identify performance gaps and training opportunities for CRS and partner staff and recommend trainings and technical assistance;
• Supervise MEAL Senior Project Officers (SPOs) in the targeted states.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions;
• Strong relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally. Strategic in how you approach each relationship;
• Team leadership abilities with diverse/multi-disciplinary teams. Coaching skills;
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented and results-oriented.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience engaging partners and strengthening partnerships. Knowledge of CRS partnership strategy a plus;
• Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), POWER BI Dashboard, ICT4MEAL, Web Conferencing Applications, and information and budget management systems.

MEAL Competencies

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and ability in the following key competencies; MEAL in Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, Analysis & Critical Thinking, ICT for MEAL, and can apply the competencies in new or complex situations. Guides other professionals.

Required Languages – Fluent English, Arabic will be an asset.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in international development, International Relations or a relevant technical area;
• Minimum 5 years of experience in M&E at least 3 of which should be in a senior position in a large project with multiple locations and diverse team;
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, with proven ability to work with statistical software such as SPSS, and ICT4D applications such as POWER BI, CommCare, GIS, etc.;
• Technical experience in start-up projects working in an insecure environment such as Sudan;
• Experience in the use of key qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools and techniques;
• Experience in designing and overseeing implementation of program studies and evaluation, and use of findings to support adaptive management;
• Staff management experience and abilities that are conducive to a learning environment;
• Remote management experience in hard-to-reach locations.

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