MEAL Officer At Syrian Civil Administration Development Center

About Us:

SYCAC was established in Turkey in 2012 as a non-profit, non-governmental civil society organization. SYCAC means railways or roads in Arabic. The notion refers to bridging and paving the roads to connect the Syrian communities through innovative approaches on Empowerment, Governance, Peacebuilding, and Political empowerment via action-oriented interventions, mediations, and learning by informing and influencing strategies and policies and practices.

Position Summary

MEAL Officer is responsible for supporting the development and harmonization of an effective monitoring and evaluation system, Collecting and analyzing data from the field regarding implemented activities and reporting to the line manager and for quality control of data entered into SYCAC’s internal MEAL database, Ensure that the complaint/feedback mechanism is provided with transparency and credibility, Develop a monitoring and evaluation plan for projects based on the logframe.

The MEAL officer supports capacity building and training activities on M&E topics for SYCAC staff.

Key Responsibilities

1. MEAL

• Design tools and SOPs aimed to monitor project activities implementation against work-plan
• Streamline baseline assessments and coordinate training evaluations
• Reach out to program beneficiaries and gathers relevant information about conducted capacity development seminars and workshops and overall performances of council advisors
• Develop plan and tools for regular performance evaluation of council advisors
• Other monitoring and reporting duties may be added as the monitoring and reporting framework and structure is developed.

1. Database:

• Establish rigorous quality control system for entries into internal M&E database
• Spot check data entered by local council advisors inside Syria
• Engage in regular data analysis and use of results for program quality improvement
• Process data from database to contribute to periodical staff evaluations

1. Reporting:

• Compile weekly and monthly reports to the donor
• Act as reporting focal point within SYCAC and guarantee high-quality reporting
• Ensure reporting is in line with donor’s requirements

1. Training

• Conduct trainings SYCAC staff to improve their reporting skills and increase their capacities on M&E topics

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, reporting, project management or a related field
• Have work experience in an international environment and with NGOs working in complex situations.
• Advanced Experience in communication with donors.

Knowledge: Have a good knowledge of the Syrian context, familiar with humanitarian and development fields.

Management Skills: have high level of communications, time management, reports writing, Monitoring, building relationships, meetings management, and Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically

IT Skills: familiar with the following software and applications: all MS office (Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Power PI).

Personal Skills: Proactive, task oriented, hardworking and can work under pressure within a teamwork environment.

Languages: fluency in Arabic and English, both written and verbal.