Job Description

The Role:

To plan, design, organize, and coordinate the collection, compilation, consolidation, and analysis of data for project/program progress and outcome and impact monitoring. Feedback to planning processes and ensure a better data management system. The MEAL Officer will support in the setup of the MEAL System and will have responsibility for designing and maintaining the databases and strengthening the system, building capacity of Oxfam and Partner organization staff. This includes collecting, compiling, and analyzing relevant data specifically project process, output, outcome, and impact indicators. The incumbent will also contribute to documenting lessons learned as the projects evolve.

Key Responsibilities:

1- Monitoring, Assessment, and Evaluations

• Provide MEAL technical support for the field office including MEAL activity plan, methodological design, need assessments, baseline, post-distribution monitoring, evaluations, and performance data collection for all Oxfam projects in the field office.
• Review and revise data collection tools and survey questionnaires and instruments.
• Work closely with Sana’a MEAL team and develop MEAL tools and MEAL activities for new projects and programs.
• Participate and assist Country Office MEAL Manager in preparation of ToR for internal and external evaluations, need assessments, and other studies.
• Timely plan and initiate all baselines, end lines, and impact evaluations, KAP surveys.
• In consultation with Sana’a MEAL team, EFSL, WASH, Gender, and Protection technical team leaders and other program teams, develop evaluation design, including specification of the necessary staff and resources to conduct the evaluation.
• Monitor, supervise, and coordinate baselines, assessments, evaluations, and select and recruit experienced enumerators for data collection.
• Prepare internal baseline and evaluation reports with technical support of sector team leaders and officers, review, comment, and revise all evaluation reports prepared to ensure data relevance and consistency.

2- Data management and reporting

• Work closely with Sana’a MEAL team including MEAL Manager, MIS, and PQ officer and establish and implement digital and offline database system.
• Lead and supervise field data collection, data cleaning, and analysis for program managers and team leaders and produce reports together with sector technical teams.
• Review, revise, and update all survey and evaluation reports and ensure data quality including timeliness, relevance, accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all program data in the field office.
• Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high-quality data collection.

3- Program quality, learning, and accountability

• Work closely with MIS officer, establish context-specific beneficiary compliance and feedback system, and ensure its implementation including monitoring timeliness and appropriateness of response to beneficiary’s complaints.
• Collect and share monthly monitoring and accountability reports with Sana’a MEAL team.
• Monitor the quality of implementation including vetting the processes of how programs implemented and ensure accountability standards are fully met as per Oxfam program quality standard, CAMSA, and humanitarian standards.
• Review all project implementations against Oxfam’s accountability standards.
• Harmonize MEAL tools and data collection instruments across same/similar projects implemented in different locations.
• Control the quality of quarterly and monthly MEAL reports based on agreed indicators to guide decision-making.
• Work with each technical head to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective MEAL system which will be utilized in monitoring strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in existing programs and services and for reporting on donor commitments.
• Assist program manager and facilitate quarterly after-action review including learning and reflection events, stakeholder consultation, and provide feedback to the program management team.
• Document lessons learned and best practice related to MEAL and program quality for all programs across different locations.

4- Data management and reporting

• Work closely with Sana’a MEAL team including MEAL Manager, MIS, and PQ officer and establish and implement digital and offline database system.
• Lead and supervise field data collection, data cleaning, and analysis for program managers and team leaders and produce reports together with sector technical team.
• Review, revise, and update all survey and evaluation reports and ensure data quality including timeliness, relevance, accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all program data in the field office.
• Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high-quality data collection.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned with our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability, and inclusion in all you do.

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

Essential:

• University Degree in a relevant field/significant relevant years of experience at this level with International NGO’s.
• Minimum 2 to 3 years of experience in a similar function in addition to knowledge in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning.
• Previous experience of working on programs such as WASH, Food Security and Livelihood, and Gender is preferable.
• Competency in the use of relevant technology systems (MS Office suite skills) in addition to Survey CTO.
• Solid and sound data management and reporting skills.
• Good leadership and team management skills.
• Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal).

Desirable:

• Team-working skills.
• Flexibility under pressure and in response to changing needs.
• Attention to detail and strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Ability to keep clear and concise records and some knowledge of relevant statistical software would be highly desirable.

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, a generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance, and a range of other benefits.

From the day you join Oxfam, we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the-job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more.

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Our values and commitment to safeguarding:

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity, and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organization.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us:

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s rights activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers, and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of the international confederation of 21 organizations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development, and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organization working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity, and inclusion across our community of staff, partners, and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.