Save the Children is hiring Senior Advisor-Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)2021 in Cox’s Bazar

Save the Children is hiring Senior Advisor-Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)2021 in Cox’s Bazar

Position Summary

Save the Children seeks a Senior Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) for a three-year USAID-funded Multisector Integrated District Development program. The anticipated program will work to strengthen resilience in host communities affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis through fostering economic and social prosperity.

Essential Duties:

• Develop and Implement MEAL Plan: Develop, revise, ensure USAID approval of, and implement the MEAL Plan. Report on MEAL indicators quarterly and annual donor reports. Manage and ensure success of USAID Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) and other donor reviews. Coordinate and facilitate, with support from the project MEAL Officers, development of the project’s annual work plans, as well as the preparation of quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports—according to donor and SCI requirements.
• Database Development: Conceptualize and maintain the structure/format of a MEAL database for the USAID Multisector Integrated District Development project. This position will ensure the development of a robust data management system that, in compliance with the USAID’s operational policy (Automated Directives System or ADS) requirements, will meet reporting, accountability, learning and adaptation needs. The data management system will include data capture, processing, reporting and quality checkpoints. The MEAL Senior Advisor will develop the instruments for data capture and ensure that these instruments work well with the database, indicators and disaggregation’s as defined in the approved MEAL plan.
• Evaluation: Manage and support an evaluation of project performance, conducted by an external organization. The evaluation will include a baseline study, mid-line reviews and a final evaluation (Year 3).
• Cost Capture and Cost Reporting: MEAL support, quality assurance, and reporting on cost, expenditure, and dosage in coordination with the finance and technical teams and in accordance with USAID’s cost reporting guidance. This data will contribute to an external cost analysis.
• Fidelity of Implementation: Develop and manage tools and system to track implementation to support project performance and the external evaluation.
• Performance Management and Accountability: Ensure, in collaboration with the DCOP and COP, MEAL evidence regarding project performance is used for management decision-making and continuous performance improvement. Responsible for reporting on progress toward achieving the project targets, translating strategic information into improved programming and delivery of services. Responsible for providing accountability for use of resources, and supporting internal and external capacity for using M&E for key targets.
• MEAL Leadership: Responsible for providing overall leadership, supervision, training, and guidance on MEAL activities, and facilitating MEAL strategy implementation in support of sub-contractors and SC staff—with assistance from the project MEAL Officers.
• Quality Project Documents: Ensure that all project MEAL documents, data, and other information required for program strategic planning and reporting are documented, prepared and submitted on time and in compliance with the contractual requirements of USAID.
• CLA Strategy: As part of CLA strategy, coordinate and facilitate learning events and ensure alignment of learning objectives and results to key priorities of the Bangladeshi government and other key stakeholders.

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.