Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Specialist

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Description

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The MEAL Specialist will support the country progamme by ensuring the planning and implementation of timely monitoring activities, data analysis and reporting on process, outcomes and impact indicators, and ensure timely sharing of information with programming and operational counterparts for adaptive management. 

Responsibilities

• Contribute to project and programme design to ensure planning and budgeting of MEAL activities
• Support the development of coherent logical frameworks and MEAL plans with a view to alignment across the country programme
• Support beneficiary registration, verification and validation and ensure data handling in alignment with FAO’ data protection policy.
• Support primary data collection, including survey design, coding (ODK/KOBO), data quality oversight, cleaning, analysis and reporting for baseline, post-distribution, pre-/post-harvest, and endline reporting – where relevant in collaboration with third party entities.  
• Collaborate with project managers to ensure/undertake regular updates in the Project Activity Information Database (PAID), 5W matrix, and other relevant databases.
• Establish regular information flows related to MEAL activities from implementing partners and FAO field offices to the FAO country office MEAL team through standardized reporting templates.
• Support strengthening Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms for the project activities, and a programme-wide complaints and feedback mechanism that is accessible to target communities, including referral pathways and documentation of actions taken. 
• Conduct regular field visits to assess the timeliness and quality of implementation of project activities.
• Provide implementing partners with technical support related to MEAL, and, in coordination with the programme team, organize and facilitate MEAL-related training courses to enhance their capacity.
• Contribute to donor and organizational reporting.
• Support overseeing M&E-related contracts, including third-party monitoring entities, to ensure timely and quality delivery on tasks.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in development studies, statistics, agriculture, economics, or related fields.
• Five years of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning.
• Working knowledge of English.
• Working knowledge of the official language of the country, Arabic.
• National of Sudan.

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2501389

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