The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019, it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

JOB SUMMARY

Under the direct supervision of the Field Office Manager, the MEAL Coordinator will support all Hawassa Field Office Awards MEAL-related activities with quality and accountability. Detail areas of role and responsibilities would be MEAL Coordinator for Hawassa Field Office as a general, which will be implemented in Save the Children Hawassa Field Office.   He/she will be responsible for ensuring that the delivery of the programs is in line with the SC MEAL approach/standards, Donor requirements, SC MEAL Framework, and specific programmatic approaches. He/she will ensure & and strengthen that a strong MEAL system is in place so that the implementation of the programs is of high quality to be accountable to beneficiaries, partners, and donors. He /She will play people development roles (MEAL Officer)

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and implement a work plan for rolling out the MEAL system at the program and Field Office levels.
• Provide technical support to MEAL Officers and Program staff on developing and implementing M&E plans.
• Support program staff to collect good quality monitoring data promptly and collate/organize data received for reporting to the Project Office.
• Closely work with the MEAL team at SCI CO, CO TA,  South Area Office MEAL Manager, Program managers, and FO-level MEAL staff on the design and roll-out of standardized monitoring tools and methodologies.
• Provide technical assistance and capacity building for program staff and partners’ staff on the development and use of MEAL tools and methodologies.
• Ensure that regular reports are generated from monitoring data and that findings are communicated effectively to appropriate persons and units.
• Conduct qualitative M&E (against international standards through participatory methodologies (including child-friendly methodologies).
• Support and participate as required in all other aspects of MEAL, for example, surveys, baselines, evaluations, joint projects monitoring, and reviews/lessons learning workshops/events.
• Implement accountability activities, including the development and use of information materials and the establishment of a pilot complaints response mechanism. This may include the management of an Accountability Assistant, ensuring that complaints are logged and addressed in a professional and timely manner and that serious complaints relating to abuse, exploitation, and corruption and referred to appropriately.
• Provide inductions to new staff on MEAL and work with all staff in the organization to increase capacity in Accountability through training and direct support.
• Promote learning throughout the area office, particularly on issues of program quality and accountability.
• Regularly produce and report on best practices and case studies; ensure new analysis and information are available, including for the forthcoming communications strategy.
• Ensure that children, women, and other vulnerable community members are included in all MEAL activities.
• Supporting Filed Office with quality and timely donor, government, and internal report organizing
• Being an FO SMT member will assist the head of the field office in Organizing the monthly and ad-hock meetings.
• Coordinating need assessment, developing response plans, attending cluster meetings, and liaising with Health, ESNFI, and WASH cluster partners for the SWAN consortium project activities/presence.
• Generating lessons learned (Program case story and success stories), and ACCM with FO, AO, and CO team.
• Led staff on rapid and contextual needs assessment.
• Providing of effective communication vertically and horizontally
• Capturing and storing program quality data, generating information for impacts

Reporting Requirement

• Preparing quality and timely FO MEAL reports to Field Office Manager and Area Office MEAL Manager, CO MEAL unit on demand, and detailing all MEAL  activities.

Job Qualifications:
Essential

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in MEAL and preferably in the INGO environment, including significant field operations experience running both development and emergency programs.
• BA Degree or equivalent in MEAL, statistics, Development Studies, or other related fields.
• Field-level experience in Humanitarian for INGOs in international development and emergency programs
• Knowledge of key institutional donors and their compliance requirements concerning the MEAL system
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching.
• Experience in solving complex issues through analysis, the definition of a clear way forward, and ensuring quality and accountability.
• Commitment to Save the Children values.
• Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours in the event of major emergencies including traveling at short notice and for extended periods.
• Highly organized with good administration skills for order and information management, able to develop filing systems.
• Ability to use updated software applications and databases to analyze and intemperate data for information.
• A high level of computer literacy (word, excel, PPT, etc)

Desirable;

• Excellent communication & and interpersonal skills
• Computer skills, especially Microsoft Office
• Familiarity with contexts

SC Values are Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity, and Integrity. 

To meet the value system, the post holder is expected to demonstrate the following competencies on an ongoing basis.

• Leading Delivering result: Takes personal responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious goals for children, continually improving our performance or that of the team/organization.
• Thinking applying technical and professional expertise: Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practices within and outside the organization.
• Engaging
• Working effectively with others: Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
• Communicating with Impact: Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust with others Holds suppliers accountable to deliver on their responsibilities

Ambition:

• Set ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and take responsibility for their personal development.
• Widely shares their vision for Save the Children and engages and motivates others.
• Future-orientated thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members, external partners, and supporters.
• Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.
• Displays consistent excellent judgment.