Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) (www.refugeecouncil.fi) is an international non-governmental organisation with Head Office in Helsinki. FRC advocates for the rights of refugees, displaced populations and migrants, and supports their new beginnings. By reinforcing equality and creating opportunities for everyone to lead a good life, FRC promotes the establishment of stable and peaceful societies.

The “extended emergency support to IDPs in Amhara Region” project specific objective is that Vulnerable internally displaced communities who found refuge in Werebabo, Hayik, Telehudere, Kuta Ber and Mekane Selam Woredas have access to life saving support. Vulnerable communities’ access to life saving support will be ensured through improving vulnerable households’ ability to meet their food needs through cash for food, improving the access of target groups to multiple purpose relief through the provision of relief kits, improving the availability of gender and disability friendly and quality sanitation facilities and other basic facilities, strengthening community based GBV prevention and response mechanism, and by providing targeted IDPs with functional Literacy (Amharic) and financial skill courses

Position Summary:

Under the direct supervision of the Field Office Manager (with matrix support from the MEAL specialist), the MEAL officer will be responsible to ensure effective, timely and quality implementation of the project. He/she will provide technical expertise and take part in generating and analyzing quality evidence and data through monitoring, assessments, and evaluations for improved programming, and promote evidence-based program management and learning. The job holder with demonstrated experience in results-based thinking and building and strengthening monitoring systems, will be skilled in quantitative and qualitative data collection tools and analysis and have excellent communication skills. The special focus of this assignment will be strengthening the analytical MEAL capacities in the Field Office ensuring baselines, process monitoring, outcome post-distribution monitoring surveys, and other qualitative and quantitative surveys are properly managed.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Prepare and coordinate the MEAL plan implementation for the Field office.
• Lead on, and participate in, needs assessment exercises, beneficiary targeting, including the development of assessment protocols, data collection tools, data analysis and results-based reporting.
• Provide capacity development on M&E in the field office,
• Lead in reviews and lessons learnt exercises among the partners and stakeholders including the targeted communities and beneficiaries.
• Lead the project monitoring including post-distribution survey.
• Generate evidence, lessons learned and recommendations to the field office based on evaluation and assessment findings.
• In coordination with the MEAL Specialist and project Manager/Head of Field Office, monitor the progress of program implementation as per set objectives, indicators, and desire results.

Accountability

• As a focal point, ensure functioning, use of and improvements to the community feedback and response mechanism, and adherence to cluster standards and expectations.
• Contribute to staff understanding and capacity building of accountability principles.

Learning

• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure learning events are conducted to document learnings and best practices on the projects for future implementation.
• Participate on proactive impact data gathering to analyses specific activities or components outcomes.
• Set up reflection practices around evaluation results.

Reporting

• Facilitate the collection and compilation surveys (baseline, mid-term, end-line, PDM etc), and give inputs to ensure FRC standard reporting,
• Gather information and develop case stories, and success stories relevant to programs
• Compile and consolidate periodic MEAL reports and submit them to the Field Office Manager and Head of Field Office as per the template communicated.
  Category Humanitarian and Development Sector

Reports to Field Office/Project Manager

Duration up to March 31, 2024 – with the possibility of extension

Job Requirements

Professional Standards: 
FRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the FRC Code of Conduct.

A. Education & Qualifications: University degree in M&E, Economics, Statistics, project management, Social science, or related fields.

B. Experience:

• 4 years’ experience focusing on M&E, results-based project planning and management.
  NGO experience is desirable.
• Has experience in grassroots-level surveys, and multiple assessments at different levels, including the design, data collection and analysis.
• Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts particularly emergency support, cash distribution, GBV, etc.

C. Technical skills & knowledges:

• Proven knowledge, abilities, and skills in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation and results-based management.
• In-depth knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methods, and statistical applications (excel, PBI, SPSS, kobo tool, etc );
• Data collection tool development.

D. Competencies

• Ability to visualize data in creative ways and able to see patterns and trends in data for analysis and decision making.
• Commitment to Mission, vision, and values of FRC
• Takes a data-oriented approach to decision making.
• Self-motivated and results oriented.
• Demonstrable ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Willing to work in remote and at times challenging field conditions.

E. Language : Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Amharic language is a requirement.