Introduction:

Human Appeal is an incorporated UK charity and a global humanitarian and development organization. We save lives, alleviate poverty, transform and empower local communities whilst championing humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence and establishment of self-sustaining development programmes. Our vision is "to become the global agent of change for a just, caring, and sustainable world’’.

Human Appeal is implementing WFP nutrition activities under Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP) in district Qamber ShahdadKot to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls in the targeted population of adolescent girls through provision of SNF and nutrition awareness activities linked with conditional cash assistance.

Position Summary:

The MEAL Associate will be based in project office in Qamber ShahdadKot, the position will responsible for providing monitoring, evaluation and learning support for the WFP nutrition project.

Job Responsibilities:

• Facilitate program department in-need assessments, baseline, end line, and post-distribution monitoring surveys in terms of forming data collection tools, sample size, and training of data collection team.
• Conduct interviews with line departments, conduct PRA exercises, and administer questionnaires.
• Ensure data quality and data consistency during data collection and data entry, manage database, and facilitate data analysis. Conduct data audit of up to 50% sample of the field data collection as well as data entered into the database by project or data entry staff and generate data audit report.
• Facilitate program department in the first draft report of surveys (baseline & end line and assessments).
• Ensure that the implementation of field activities adheres to SIF’s monitoring and evaluation system.
• Carry out regular and routine field monitoring of program activities and produce monitoring visit reports on the given format; conduct debriefs sessions with relevant program staff and develops an agreed action plan; and report.
• Carry out follow-up monitoring visits to materialize actions agreed in the action plan, also maintain Monitoring-Action Plan Tracker at field level; and report to line manager.
• To assist in planning and implementation of internal monitoring and evaluation exercises and impact assessments in terms of case/success stories and during project evaluation when needed.
• Manage all internal evaluation activities of the base; systematically ensure the analysis of results is shared with stakeholders.
• Ensure and support the completion of the beneficiaries’ database in coordination with the program team.

Qualification & Experience:

• Masters in Social sciences, international relations or any other related field from any HEC recognized university.
• At least 2 Year field level experience in project monitoring.
• Good level of spoken and written Sindhi and local languages.
• Excellent skills in organizing workflow, capacity to follow protocols and take own initiative.
• Excellent ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work in an environment where there are physical discomforts associated with change in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust or dirt.

  Skills and Proficiencies:

• Ability and willingness to autonomously travel to duty site/ health facility and villages when required.
• Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long distance walking to work/distribution sites.
• Excellent spoken and written local language /Urdu and English language skills.
• Good computer skills – ability to write weekly and monthly reports and data analysis.

Note: As we are looking for immediate hires, we will be reviewing candidates on rolling basis.