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MEAL Project Officer

Catholic Relief Services
Maadi, Cairo
Posted 5 years ago
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Background

  • Catholic Relief Services (CRS) works in a wide variety of areas within the humanitarian and development fields, regardless of race, creed, religion, or gender, to advance our mission to assist the poor and vulnerable. Our team reflects this diversity. The CRS Egypt country program began in 1956 at the invitation of the Egyptian president Nasser by providing relief assistance to the victims of the Suez.
  • War. Over the following few decades, CRS Egypt moved from large-scale food relief to long-term poverty alleviation and development programs.
  • Currently, CRS Egypt has three main programs: livelihoods, interfaith peacebuilding, and education assistance for refugees. Projects under these programs range from the provision of technical assistance and capacity building to partners, the promotion of peace and tolerance, the provision of educational grants for refugees, and the protection and safeguarding of children.

Job Summary:

  • As a member of the Livelihoods project team, you will monitor and report on all project activities in support of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the project consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve. Also, you will be responsible for all aspects of MEAL efforts throughout the life of the project, accountability systems as well as learning efforts in addition to providing Technical Assistance on MEAL to the project staff.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design and implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems, plans, and processes in accordance with CRS’s MEAL best practices
  • Ensure MEAL team captures project progress, deploys accountability mechanisms, and supports a learning environment which enables effective decision making, project communication, and the capturing of lessons learned and best practices
  • Ensure the development and implementation of strong MEAL systems, in compliance with CRS MEAL standards using appropriate CRS tools and resources to maximize project impact on beneficiaries, accountability and learning
  • Ensure use of ICT4D technology in support of the projects’ quality implementation
  • Ensure timely and quality preparation of donor project narrative reports, quarterly performance indicator tracking tables, baseline and final evaluation reports, and other related reports as required by the local government, donors, CRS regional leadership, or CRS headquarters as per reporting requirements
  • Advise senior management about strategic programming directions and issues affecting project implementation, as well key local issues affecting future grants/projects developments.
  • Implement learning activities for the Livelihoods Team at a minimum of once per quarter; share results and lessons learned with CRS Egypt MEAL Community of Practice
  • Promote project accountability through ensuring appropriate feedback and response mechanisms are in place and functioning properly
  • Ensure regular monitoring visits with beneficiaries capture successes and challenges and are brought to the attention of project management
  • Write human interest pieces/success stories and other communications materials to promote the project and illustrate the impact
  • Supervise a MEAL Field Officer and coordinate with CRS/Egypt’s other MEAL staff
  • Other related duties, as assigned

Job Requirements

Required Background & Experience:
Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in international development or a related field
  • Four years of experience working in a MEAL Project Support role, ideally in the field of Livelihoods.
  • Experience with a local or international NGO a plus; additional education may substitute for some experience
  • Experience with data entry, and data visualization and analysis software
  • Experience in leading participatory action planning and community engagement
  • Experience in collecting, manipulating, synthesizing, analyzing, and showcasing data
  • Strong business writing skills for high quality communication documentation
  • Experience in MS Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio) and information management systems

Personal Skills

  • Good time management skills with ability to work on multiple tasks
  • Strong customer service orientation with good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proactive, resourceful, solutions-oriented, and results-oriented
  • Observation, active listening, and analysis skills with ability to make sound judgment
  • Good relationship management skills with strong team work, and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members
  • Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge and skills formally and informally to diverse audiences.

Required/Desired Foreign Language:

  • Excellent command of English and Arabic.

Travel Required:

  • Job requires approximately 30% travel within Cairo metropolitan area to implement and assist partners and follow up on projects

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