Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager

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The Programmes currently focus on an integrated humanitarian response, combining basic assistance and protection activities with development-oriented interventions in livelihoods and Social Cohesion.. As partnership agency Trócaire works with a portfolio of local partner organisations in the region. In strengthening its programming, Trócaire  is seeking to recruit a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager to be based in Beirut, Lebanon .

The MEAL Manager will be responsible for providing strategic direction and technical advice on all aspects of MEAL for Trócaire’s programming, helping to ensure that Trócaire and its partners are implementing high quality programmes, are striving for excellence and are fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement. The MEAL Manager will ensure the Country Programme is meeting all donor MEAL requirements across all country grants. S/he will have excellent technical abilities in MEAL systems and processes; solid grounding in MEAL programme quality; well-honed capacity building skills; and will be capable of maintaining strategic vision and oversight of MEAL in multiple grants.

The post-holder will oversee the rollout of quality MEAL systems working closely with the Head of Programmes, Program Managers and the Grants Coordinator. Since Trócaire works through partnership, this role will involve building strong relationships with, and providing accompaniment to, local partner organisations.

For the candidate with the required experience and passion for the role, Trócaire offers a competitive package of salary and benefits.

Reporting to the Head of Programmes with direct collaboration and coordination with the Program Managers and Grant Coordinator.  This is a Fixed Term Contract of 1 year (with the possibility of extension), is based in Beirut with frequent travel to programme locations and occasional travel to other locations.

Details of the Job

Technical support to Country Team

  • Lead on the design and roll-out of the country level M&E plan.
  • Provide technical support to the programme team to design/update and implement M&E plans at grant and/or project level. 
  • Provide training and technical support on monitoring, evaluation and learning to programme staff, including results-based management, data collection, analysis and interpretation including qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This includes ethical considerations in data collection and analysis.
  • Provide technical support to the programme team to design and implement targeting approaches in line with the organisation approach.
  • Provide technical support on the design, updating and reporting on logic models and results framework for all grants and projects, especially Irish Aid.
  • Provide technical support to programmes in reviewing partner submitted proposals and narrative reports.
  • Support programme team on identifying feasible indicators for the technical programme areas. This includes the use of Trócaire global and common indicators.
  • Advise and support programme staff to champion the importance of sex, age and diversity (SAD) data collection and analysis, including the use of practical indicators and monitoring tools and processes (both qualitative and quantitative).
  • Support programme team in conducting timely monitoring and learning activities, including quality assurance of the design and use of data collection, and analysis tools that contribute to quality reporting, increased accountability, visibility of programme impact and continual programme improvement.
  • Lead on the development, design and management of grant or project evaluations, baselines or research. 
  • Lead on data analysis of partner submitted data and report on major progress indicators at project, grant, and country level
  • Support the programme team to use M&E learnings to inform and adapt programme implementation. This includes supporting learning mechanisms such as reflection meetings, pause and reflect meetings, after action reviews etc.
  • Coordinate with the Protection & Accountability Manager to achieve the MEAL related components of the Trócaire Accountability & Programme Quality Framework (APQF).
  • Support the programme team on measuring reach including the annual collection and reporting of reach at country level in line with the organisational approach.
  • Support country team when conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments and implementing relevant action plans with partners.
  • Provide training and technical support on Technology in MEL especially Excel, KOBO, power BI, etc.
  • Develop country level strategic SOPs and documents as required and requested.

Strengthening MEAL related partner capacity in collaboration with Program Managers

  • In collaboration with programme staff, lead on the development and implementation of a partner MEAL capacity development plan, generating training materials and resources where needed but drawing on organisational resources.
  • In collaboration with programme staff lead on providing training and technical support to partner on results-based management including providing feedback on logic models and result frameworks for strategic grants.
  • Through training and close accompaniment, support partner staff to develop skills and competencies to gather, manage and analyse quality data with a focus on SAD data.
  • In collaboration with programme staff support and mentor partner staff to analyse and interpret data ethically to inform programme quality control, produce quality donor reports, document lessons learned and programme impact and to inform future project development.
  • Support partners to implement quality field monitoring in a manner that is sensitive to the different needs, responsibilities, and capabilities of programme participants and that builds their organisational MEL system.
  • In collaboration with programme staff, support partners on the development, design and management of strategic grant or project evaluations, baselines or research. 
  • In collaboration with programme staff provide training and technical support to the design and implement appropriate targeting approaches, technical support on measuring reach.
  • In collaboration with programme staff, lead on providing training and technical support to partners on technology for M&E and advise on data protection and security in M&E.
  • Support partner staff in addressing emerging gaps and challenges and in channelling monitoring and evaluation findings to generate lessons and adaptations
  • Support partners in developing MEAL related SOPs and policies

Documenting and dissemination of learning

  • Promote and model best practice in documenting, disseminating, and using learning in program development.
  • Capture relevant learning approaches, methodologies and/or tools and training resources developed at country and/or partner level to encourage learning to share at country and/or organisational level.
  • Capture lessons from partner capacity building to share at country and/or organisational level.
  • Actively engage with the Global MEAL Team sharing learning from countries.
  • Learn from other organisational and external documented learning in rolling out new approaches and methods (e.g. digital data monitoring and innovative participatory M&E methods) and explore how to apply these in the country contexts.

Support Institutional Funding – in collaboration with Head of Programs and Grant Coordinator

  • Support the development of institutional funding applications (concept notes and full proposals) especially support on context analysis, targeting, ToC, innovative MEAL, indicators, and M&E plans.
  • Support the reporting process for strategic grants especially quality control of monitoring and evaluation data. 
  • Ensure a calendar of key MEAL events for all grants is maintained to support contract compliance
  • Attend strategic meetings with key stakeholders in relation to programming, particularly MEAL.

Other:

  • Actively participate in relevant in-country MEAL coordination meetings to get and share experiences
  • Participate in wider organisational strategic planning and review work.
  • Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned by the line manager that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility.

Skills

  • Excellent leadership skills, including ability to lead and influence, and to motivate staff to align behind a shared vision and objectives.
  • Technical skills to implement M&E in a gender-sensitive manner, including tool design, sampling, data collection, analysis.
  • Computer Skills: High level of proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint.  Good knowledge of IT systems such as cloud platforms, apps, Excel, databases and online data collection systems such as Kobo Toolbox or Power BI
  • Facilitation, coordination and communication skills, with an ability to communicate to a variety of audiences;
  • Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into different formats (e.g., reports, short summaries, presentations);
  • Experience leveraging performance monitoring data for improving ongoing programme
  • Excellent spoken and written Arabic and English.

Qualities:

  • Strong commitment to principles of partnership, solidarity, social justice and localisation
  • Excellent networking skills with the ability to establish good relationships, confident in engaging with colleagues, partners and stakeholders
  • Constructively critical and analytical
  • Entrepreneurial, affinity to creativity and innovations
  • Open-minded and flexible in approach
  • Effective communication
  • Readiness to work outside of the framed job description

Knowledge:

  • In depth knowledge of PCM especially as it relates to MEAL including contextual and needs analysis, targeting approaches, baselines, monitoring, evaluations and learning approaches. 
  • Results Based Management especially results-based monitoring and evaluation.
  • General understanding of development issues and contexts, preferably in the areas of Humanitarian, Sustainable Livelihoods, SGBV and Women’s Empowerment.
  • Good understanding of the humanitarian context in Syria and Lebanon
  • Availability to work outside regular hours to meet deadlines and travel within Syria and Lebanon when necessary and sometimes on short notice.

Desired Experience:

  • At least 5 years’ experience in managing programme monitoring, evaluation and/or development.
  •  Experience of implementing results focused monitoring, evaluation and learning systems. 
  • Previous experience of quantitative/ qualitative data management and analysis .
  • Experience with digital data collection software, such as Power Bi, Kobo Toolbox or similar software.
  • Experience in participatory M&E approaches.
  •  Previous experience working through partnerships approach, and with local partner organizations. 
  • Previous experience in capacity building including facilitating training.
  • Demonstrated commitment to international development/ justice work.
  • Previous experience with designing MEAL systems for major international donors (European Union, UN, Irish Aid, UK donors, etc.).
  • Experience working in MEAL for protection, basic assistance, social cohesion or/and livelihoods programmes
  • Experience in providing training and accompaniment to local organisations on MEAL.
  • Experience in rolling out Common Humanitarian Standards (CHS) within an organisation especially MEL components.
  • Familiar of working in fragile and conflict affected areas.

Safeguarding Programme Participants Policy:

Trócaire is committed to Safeguarding Programme Participants from Exploitation and Abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives.  Any candidate offered a job with Trócaire will be expected to sign Trócaire’s Safeguarding Policies and Global Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

 
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