M&E Officer Food for the Hungry

The MEAL Officer will be responsible for effective and high-quality planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and reporting of food for the Hungry Nutrition Project. The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will also support analysis, and documentation, and facilitate the sharing of insights gained from learning experiences. The post holder will liaise closely with the partners who have established the overall monitoring, verification, and evaluation framework.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Key Result #1 – Set up a Robust Monitoring and Evaluation system.
• Key Result #2 – Data Collection and Analysis
• Key Result #3 – Program Monitoring and Report Writing
• Key Result #4 – Personnel Management
• Key Result #5 – Program Support
• Key Result #6 – Coordination and collaboration

Education & Experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics and Public Health, Human nutrition, and Social Sciences, with specific Postgraduate training in Monitoring and Evaluation from a Recognized institution.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in a similar role with NGOs preferably implementing Health and Nutrition related programs.

Experience in monitoring and evaluation of World Food Program (WFP) funded projects and a good understanding of WFP reporting platforms like Partner Connect.

Good understanding of nutrition and health standard indicators plus experience implementing nutrition-focused projects.
• Excellent mobile data collection skills and knowledge with good command of any Kobo Collect tool, ODK, HMIS/DHIS2, etc.
• Proven ability to design MEAL plans and result frameworks.
• Ability to analyze and disseminate complex information to a range of stakeholder audiences.
• Relevant experience in food security, health, and nutrition assessments is a plus.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills using ENA, SPSS and/or Stata, EPI info, as well as Nvivo/Atlas software, coupled with knowledge of demonstrable track record in data management, with the ability to manage databases.
• Be professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible, and, culturally sensitive.
• Be willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines good command of both written and spoken English
• Ability to mobilize different audiences
• Passionate about fulfilling FH’s mission of demonstrating the love of Christ to people affected by disaster, conflict, and poverty.
• Develops and maintains good working relationships with colleagues.
• Effectively and efficiently manages all resources entrusted to him/her for work purposes.
• Maintains an attitude and behaviors by FH values and principles.
• Must be able to ride a motorcycle with a valid riding permit.