MEAL Officer at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

The MEAL Officer will be a part of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) team, supporting implementation of the overall emergency response MEAL system. He/she will assist MEAL team with activities, including data collection, database management and analysis, maintaining the Output Tracker (OT) and the Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT), assisting with planning field visits, post-distribution monitoring, assessments and evaluations, as well as providing general support in data entry and management. He/she will support the MEAL team and programme teams to ensure learning and accountability systems are put in place and are working effectively in Save the Children programmes in Dadaab.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

• Previous relevant experience, such as data collection, analysis and reporting
• Demonstrated ability in community mobilisation and community-level dialogue
• Strong skills in excel and other data management software
• Experience in knowledge and database management
• Fluent English both spoken and written
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.

• Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support.

  Desirable:

• Previous experience working in humanitarian programmes

• Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Statistics or related field with preferably 3 years relevant work experience