Country MEAL Manager At Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion

Vacancy: 01

Job Context

• Handicap International- Humanity & Inclusion (HI) has been working in Bangladesh since 1997, focusing on creating sustainable changes to ensure the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities in society. HI is an independent and impartial aid organization working in Bangladesh in poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster situations. With projects in different districts of the country, HI works not only with people with disabilities and other vulnerable populations, but also with their families, their communities, and local humanitarian actors in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions, promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights, and provide sustainability in its action. As one of the key organizations in the disability sector, HI has a wide range of projects which assist in promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their issues in emergency and development contexts, building capacities of local stakeholders, and reducing the impact of natural and human-made disasters. Particularly in Coxs Bazar district, HI is providing services in rehabilitation, MH/PSS, SRH, protection, and inclusive education with an inclusion mainstreaming approach to refugees and host populations affected by the forcibly displaced undocumented Myanmar nationals. HIs multi-sectoral mobile units (MU) and static method are currently working in 15 camps located in both Teknaf and Ukhiya Upazilas and surrounding host areas providing comprehensive services in physical rehabilitation, primary health care, protection, and MHPSS.
• HI is currently implementing a development and humanitarian response project in Kurigram, and Cox`s Bazar district through 4 project offices (Kurigram, Ukhiya, and Teknaf) and 2 coordination offices (Dhaka and Cox Bazar).
• Operational Thematic: Livelihood, Health and Rehabilitation, Protection, Inclusion, Education, and Atlas Logistics
• Number of staff: Around 294 National staff and 06 international staff
• HI, is looking for a Country MEAL Manager, The Country MEAL manager is responsible for the MEAL and information management (IM) teams working in his or her geographical area of responsibility He or she is in charge of deploying HI’s MEAL and IM standards on his or her programme and ensuring their application.
• The MEAL department and the Technical Unit Manager ensure the overall coherency of the projects and their quality control. The Country MEAL Manager is a part of the Senior Management Team.
• Job Location: Dhaka with field travel
• Line Manager: Country Director
• Type of Contract: Fixed-term
• Duration of the Contract: 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
• Team to manage: 01 MEAL Manager, 01 Senior MEAL Officer, 01 Accountability Officer.

Job Responsibilities

• Mission 1: Management
• Responsibility 1: Is the line manager of the MEAL and IM teams of the programme
• Manager as a role model: embodies HI’s values on a daily basis.
• Manager as a coach for meaning: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his or her team, and leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to each management action. Encourages inter and intra-departmental exchanges of practice. Promotes innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational manager: organizes the operational management of his or her team, and structures the workaround
• identified processes steer performance and facilitate the resolution of problems.
• Manager 1st HR&Coach: contributes to the development of his or her staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism, and attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct of institutional policies, the state of mind, and the expected individual and collective behavior.
• Mission 2: Strategy and steering
• Responsibility 1: Defines the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool
• Helps with the development of operational strategy (StratOp) in line with HI strategy, StraTechs, and Development plans (notably 3I and Emergency), including the development of the StratOp monitoring tool;
• Defines and oversees the programme’s MEAL action plan;
• Drives the performance of his or her service.
• Leads the assessment of local partners’ MEAL/IM capacities and the resulting capacity-building plans
• Mission 3: Standards and expertise
• Responsibility 1: Designs the program’s MEAL and IM systems and monitors their implementation and quality
• Is responsible for defining systems for monitoring, data collection, information management, evaluation, accountability to populations, learning, and knowledge management that are adapted to the context of intervention and ensure compliance with HI standards;
• Ensures that the systems put in place on the various projects are consistent with each other and HI’s frameworks and standards and enable the consolidation of information for use in the programme’s global management.
• Mission 4: Operational implementation
• Responsibility 1: Contributes towards improving HI’s response within his/her geographical scope
• Is responsible for the implementation of tools for measuring outcomes and impact that facilitate decision-making, learning, and accountability;
• Is responsible for putting in place a system for ensuring accountability towards populations;
• Contributes towards the articulation and application of HI’s institutional policies and crosscutting approaches
• Responsibility 2: Contributes towards defining and improving the quality of projects in line with HI’s global frameworks and technical standards
• Provides technical support to the technical specialists in establishing quality indicators, monitoring methods, and data collection tools;
• Contributes to the design and drafting of project proposals;
• Is responsible for ensuring that regular project evaluations take place.
• Responsibility 3: Contributes towards improving the quality of project management, as defined in HI’s Project Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) policy
• Provides technical support to the project and partners teams for the implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and accountability tools and methods;
• Provides technical support to operations managers, country managers, and project managers to apply PME policy and verifies its application.
• Responsibility 4: Contributes towards the ownership of learning frameworks and methodologies by the programmes and by HI in general
• Is responsible, for implementing processes and methods for collecting, analyzing, modeling, and ownership of the knowledge produced;
• Proposes an analysis of the information collected and the knowledge produced to strengthen collective learning;
• Ensures the continuous improvement of learning frameworks and methodologies;
• Ensures access to relevant internal and external information for all staff.
• Responsibility 5: Ensures the external representation and promotion of HI’s expertise in his/her field.
• Represents HI’s MEAL and IM expertise in all relevant regional networks;
• Contributes towards advocacy on specific subjects (notably through the consolidation of evidence-based factors) in line with the StratOp and federal advocacy priorities;
• Contributes locally to communication messages in line with the StratOp and federal communication priorities.
• Mission 5: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities
• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response.

Employment Status

Full-time

Workplace

• Work at office

Educational Requirements

• Minimum Master’s degree in Statistics / Humanitarian Aid / Development studies, or any relevant areas of Social Science Disciplines.

Experience Requirements

• At least 5 year(s)
• The applicants should have experience in the following area(s):
  Evaluation and Learning, experience in Monitoring and Evaluation and reporting, Implementation of MEAL, Learning, and Development, Monitoring and Reporting, Senior Management, Team management, Team Supervision or coordination
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s):
  NGO

Additional Requirements

• Age 25 to 54 years
• Experience:
• Minimum 10 years of experience in MEAL, Research, and Information Management were minimum of 5 years in a similar position (organizational level MEAL & IM strategy development, strengthening and implementation)
• Management Skills
• Being capable of helping team members to progress: developing his or her staff‘s ability to work autonomously
• Knowing how to position oneself so things can move forward
• Knowing how to simplify and prioritize
• Other Skills
• Demonstrated skills in setting up, rolling out, and strengthening MEAL & IM systems
• Strong experience in information management systems, database management
• Experience of, and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
• Previous experience in managing a team and managing projects
• Extensive experience in undertaking a leadership role in MEAL in a humanitarian and development setting
• Demonstrated strong monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations
• Proven capacity to supervise, train, and coach staff
• Ability to write a clear and well-argued assessment, evaluations, and project reports
• Ability to play role in clear, concise, and responsible communication, and adapted to the interlocutor (adult or child):
• Excellent communication skills; Excellent written and spoken English and Bengali essential.
• The capacity and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Proven experience in project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and MEAL resourcing.
• Strategic thinking and innovation, managing change and complexities, managing people development, strengthening performance, and decision making.
• Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact, and diplomacy
• Commitment to the Vision, mandate, values, and strategy of Humanity and Inclusion.
• Anything under desirable such as various software etc.:
• Proven expertise in Mobile Data Collection: ONA, Kobo, SurveyCTO
• Proven expertise in Data Analysis: Excel, SPSS, R
• Proven expertise in Data Visualization: GIS, PowerBI, Python,
• Knowledge in Database Management: SQL
• People with disability are encouraged to apply

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary

• BDT. 260000 – 283000 (Monthly)
• Salary will be determined based on experience, qualification, and budget availability. Compensation & other benefits

Compensation & Other Benefits

• Mobile bill, Tour allowance, Medical allowance, Provident fund, Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance, Gratuity
• Festival Bonus: 2
• Medical Coverage: Staff & dependents will get general/outpatient, hospitalization, dental, and optical, medical insurance facilities as per the HI policy.
• Maternity Coverage: Staff & dependents will get maternity medical coverage facilities as per the HI policy.
• Group Life Insurance Coverage: Staff will get the death benefit, accidental benefit, permanent partial disability, permanent total disability benefit, and critical illness benefit.
• Leave: Staff will get sick leave, annual leave, medical leave, and event leave as per HI policy.