Job Description

Description

• Location: Aden, Yemen (remote)
• Reporting to: MEAL Manager
• Contract type: 1 year fixed term contract
• Hours: Full time
• Closing date: Thursday 18th July 2024

About ARK

ARK is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.  

We believe that strong, resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability – and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.  

Learn more about our impact here: https://www.ark.international/impact   

About the Role

ARK is looking for a MEAL Officer. The position will work on a program seeking to strengthen community resilience to armed recruitment in Yemen. The programme will prioritize building community awareness, prevention and reintegration mechanisms, and reconciliation, positively engage children and youth, advance economic empowerment opportunities to limit the drivers of recruitment, and care for individuals’ psychological and emotional needs through psychosocial and mental health support, including specialized assistance and referral services for women and girls who experience high rates of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Yemen.   

The MEAL Officer will support the program’s research and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) activities. The incumbent will conduct primary data collection, analysis, field visits and coordinate with local data collection partners.  

What you'll be doing

• Contribute, in coordination with the MEAL Manager to deliverables and data collection tools, such as Focus Group Discussions, Key Informant Interviews, questionnaires, field surveys and other participatory research methods.  
• Conduct site visits during the project implementation phase for each grant in assigned areas. 
• Contribute, in coordination with the Chief of Party, Project Coordinator, MEAL Manager and other MEAL colleagues, to the development of MEAL plans, frameworks, Theories of Change (ToCs), indicators, data collection plans and tools, data management, and reporting.  
• Assist the Chief of Party, the Project Coordinator, Head of Research, and the MEAL Manager in coordinating MEAL activities, planning, utilization of resources, data collection and data management.   
• Clean and analyse primary and secondary data and draft thematic and analytical reports.   
• Participate in the training of enumerators and assist with supervision of data collectors and associated protocols and quality control mechanisms.  
• Tabulate descriptive statistics and prepare charts and tables. 
• Edit and review MEAL outputs and deliverables produced by other members of the team.   
• Maintain situational awareness by keeping abreast of relevant socio-political, economic and security developments in Yemen, which may directly or indirectly impact data collection and project implementation activities.   
• Monitor social media and mainstream online media and collect, analyse and manage data from monitoring activities.   
• Contribute to the preparation of project-related presentations and attend meetings and calls with relevant stakeholders. 
• Perform other tasks, as assigned. 

Requirements

• University Degree in a relevant field (Sociology, Social Work, Development, Conflict, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Area Studies, or a related discipline);  
• Minimum 3 years of experience conducting primary data collection, applied research, and/or monitoring and evaluation activities in Yemen.  
• Full professional proficiency in Arabic and advanced proficiency in English.    
• Understanding of Theories of Change, Key Performance Indicators, Results Frameworks and other MEAL approaches and tools.   
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and accuracy.  
• Advanced computer literacy/skills.  
• Experience utilising qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis.    

Desirable   

• Interest in and knowledge of data management processes and relevant software.  
• Experience in conflict sensitivity and gender.   
• Experience with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programming.  
• Familiarity with relevant software such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data visualisation tools.  

Benefits

What Makes Us Different 

We pride ourselves on being the first people able to access and operate in challenging fragile and conflict-affected environments. We are expeditionary by design and our systems and structures enable flexible and agile responses while ensuring safe, effective and compliant delivery.  

Working with and through teams drawn from the communities in which we operate enables us to deliver impactful interventions built on intimate local understanding. In collaboration with our global network of international and local experts, we integrate nuanced understanding of the challenges we aim to solve with best practice and field-leading innovation to deliver programming that meets short-term stabilisation objectives and builds the evidence base and knowledge needed to lay the groundwork for long-term peacebuilding and development programming.   

What We Do 

We enjoy sectoral experience in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, stabilisation, gender, security and justice, as well as cross-cutting experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building.   

Our People  

Today, our team covers a diverse range of professional backgrounds; from diplomacy, humanitarian, development and the military, to the UN, civil society groups, multilateral organisations, journalism and the private sector.  

They bring sectoral expertise in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, gender and security and justice, as well as practical experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building. The multi-disciplinary and multi-national nature of our team means the research we undertake and the programmes we deliver are grounded in empirical need and deliver measurable and sustainable impact.  

ARK Group is an equal opportunity employer. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. ARK Group does not discriminate on the basis of ability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. We welcome all kinds of diversity. ARK Group places human dignity at the centre of its development and stabilisation work and is thus committed to the protection from sexual exploitation and abuse of children and adults. All ARK Group employees and related-personnel are expected to share this commitment, and only those who also uphold these values will be recruited as part of our team. This vacancy is therefore subject to a range of due diligence checks.