MEAL Officer

SENED; Şahinbey; Sur place; TRY 180 000 - 300 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

SENED invites applications for a MEAL Officer to implement a functional MEAL system at field and office levels, supporting programmes in design, monitoring and evaluation of projects.

You will coordinate baseline and evaluations with your supervisor and develop standardized MEAL tools; manage data collection, data quality, reporting and feedback handling.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1–2 years of experience in relief or development NGO focusing on MEAL.
• Excellent written English with ability to write high-quality reports in English.
• Proficiency with data collection, data analysis and reporting.

Responsabilités

• Supervise monitoring and evaluation of projects, ensure data collection, data cleaning, and indicator tracking.
• Develop methodology, sampling and tools for outcome and process monitoring (e.g., pre/post-tests, FGDs).
• Plan field data collection, coordinate data collection, supervise data entry and reporting.
• Provide training to staff and partners on reporting requirements and humanitarian standards.
• Conduct site visits and monitor cash-based interventions for quality.
• Ensure feedback and complaints are recorded and closed timely.
• Manage and follow up on financial transactions for cash transfers.
• Maintain MEAL documentation and data quality audits.
• 1–2 years NGO MEAL experience preferred.

Connaissances

Excellent written English

Work under pressure

Report writing

Formation

BSc in statistics, information management or related field

Outils

Excel

Description du poste

SENED is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization licensed and registered in Türkiye with the number 27-15-175. SENED Organization was established shortly after the Syrian Nakba and in response to the suffering of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey as well as internally displaced people in Syria, with the aim of alleviating suffering, achieving justice, equality, and freedom, strengthening the role of civil society, and supporting and developing the local community. SENED works in the humanitarian work sectors to support, empower, and educate the community through several programs, and takes special care of people with disabilities and their families and defends their issues.

SENED Association emphasizes the need to create safe, accessible, and participation-encouraging living conditions for the emotional, intellectual, physical, and social development of individuals by focusing on the people with disabilities. Beyond the medical perspective on disability, it tries to find solutions to the problems faced by disabled people with a holistic perspective by considering the disabled people, their families, and the society they live in, focusing on the conditions they experience. SENED Association aims to create a safe and supportive environment and space by conducting family-oriented activities to help disabled individuals and their families to become stronger, discover their potential and stand by with their children. By collecting data on refugee disabled people, identifying problems and needs, SENED strives to ensure harmony between disabled refugees and local people with a voluntary, professional team and a community-based approach. In all activities, education, research, advocacy, etc. carried out on platforms created by local and disabled refugee people.

Job purpose:

MEAL Officer is responsible for implementing a functional MEAL system at the both field and office levels. He/she supports the programmes in designing, monitoring and evaluating all projects interventions. Moreover, he/she works with the direct supervisor in the coordination and/or the implementation of projects baseline and evaluations and the implementation of standardized MEAL processes and tools for all sectors at the field level.

Duties, objectives and competencies:

• Supervise monitoring and evaluation part of the projects, ensure data collection, data cleaning and follow-up project indicators.
• Develop methodology, sampling, and tools for the outcome and process monitoring studies, including pre/post-tests, PIMs/PDMs, FGDs, etc.
• Planning field data collection, coordination of data collection, supervising, facilitating, coding tools, developing datasets, data cleaning, analysis, reporting.
• Provide support in training project staff and partners on reporting requirements, core humanitarian standards, output level monitoring and conduct regular training for field staff on data collection and data entry.
• Conduct project site visits regularly and monitors cash-based intervention implementation for quality standards through scheduled visits, data quality audits, and spot checks.
• Ensure that all the feedback & complaints received from communities are recorded/updated timely and accurately in the system and loops closed within the timeline.
• Manage and follow up on financial-related transactions for cash transfer.
• Minimum one to two years of experience in working in a relief or development NGO with a focus on MEAL processes.
• BSc in statistics, community development, accounting, information management, or other relevant discipline is required

Requirements (desired)

• Good working knowledge of statistical packages (Excel, etc.) is required
• Good knowledge of information presentation techniques (graphing, charting, tabling etc.)
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Excellent written English, ability to write excellent quality reports in English is required.

General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Disabled beneficiaries, children and vulnerable adults must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SENED shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Diversity

SENED is committed to creating a truly inclusive, effective and representative organizational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent, and serve children better. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. SENED reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of SENEDs work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to apply as early as possible.