MEAL & MIS Coordinator At Save the Children

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

To facilitate country office MEAL and management information systems including supporting development and implementation of learning agenda; and designing, and implementing Web-based data management systems**.**

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Project MEAL tasks (Hygiene & Behavior Change Coalition (HBCC) project with Unilever)

– Lead in revision and monitoring of quality benchmarks and extracting learning for course correction and project evaluation for HBCC project

– Develop MEAL plan for HBCC project

– Prepare field monitoring reports, maintain action point tracker, and develop and monitor action points implementation.

– Support member and donor reporting of HBCC project

– Conduct campaign outreach measurement and effectiveness evaluation for project campaigns including radio shows, BVM, social media, TV commercials, and on-site campaigning.

– Support with drafting of project closeout report

– Develop Indicator Performance Tracking Table

– Develop MIS database for project data management

Monitoring Evaluation Accountability Learning

– Work closely with Senior Coordinator Research, Evaluation, and Learning to develop and implement learning agenda for the Pakistan country office.

– Gather qualitative information, success stories, case studies, lessons learnt and other relevant information, ensuring that they are appropriately packaged, stored, shared and encouraging their application.

– Develop monitoring and evaluating mechanism for tracking progress of implementation of learning strategies and develop approaches to improve performance.

– Support Program teams and other technical staff to design tools for monitoring and evaluation of project activities as agreed in MEAL framework.

– Participate in the conduct of monitoring supervisions, evaluations and operation researches.

– Work with teams to undertake analytical work and generate sectoral and cross-thematic learnings on trends and opportunities for SC in Pakistan to achieve better outcome for children.

Management Reporting

– To develop a system for data management and reporting for Country Strategic Plan (CSP) milestones and outputs.

– Develop and maintain Indicator Performance Tracking Tables for existing and upcoming projects, with special focus on HBCC.

– Map out project indicators with CSP milestones and outputs to report annual and quarterly progress and achievements.

– Consolidate project progress and total reach for country annual report and donor reports.

– Compile and analyze data and share it with management and program teams at various levels;

– Responsible to coordinate with partners for the implementation of data tools and collection of information.

– Regularly analyse program and MEAL data (Action Plan Tracker and Feedback and Complaint Databases).

– Perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

– Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

– Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

– Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same

– Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

– Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

– Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

– Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

– Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

– Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

– Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

– Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE:

– Masters Degree in Social Sciences or equivalent 16 year’s education from HEC recognized university. Preference will be given to candidates with computer science background.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

– Approximately 4-5 years’ experience of designing monitoring tools and undertaking research, analysis and learning activities with an emphasis on data management and analysis.

– Demonstrated experience of offline and online data entry platform development; and quantitative and qualitative data analysis using Ms. Excel, Power-BI or other software.

– Ability to produce and disseminate research and evaluation outputs to a variety of audiences using effective approaches with limited guidance and oversight.

– Reasonable familiarity with SQL Server, ASP.NET with C# and SharePoint. Preference will be given to candidates with experience of using web based data management services as well as Smart Phone environments and applications.

– Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

– Fluency in written and spoken English is highly desirable

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.