MEAL Manager Full Time

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster situations. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our actions and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions, and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights. Humanity & Inclusion is a not-for-profit organization with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation comprising a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects, and implement its actions and social mission.

General Mission

The MEAL Manager is responsible for the MEAL and information management (IM) teams working in his or her geographical area of responsibility and is the direct line manager of at least one MEAL Senior Officer, one IM Officer, and all the MEAL and IM teams. S/He is in charge of deploying HI’s MEAL and IM standards on his or her programme and ensuring their application.
The overall coherency of the projects and their quality control is ensured by the MEAL department and the Technical Unit Manager.
Missions / Responsibilities
Mission 1: Management
Responsibility 1: Is the line manager of the MEAL and IM teams of the programme
• Manager as a role model: embodies HI’s values daily.
• Manager as coach for meaning: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his or her team, and leads the necessary changes. Gives meaning to each management action. Encourages inter and intra-departmental exchanges of practice. Encourages innovation and risk-taking.
• Operational manager: organises the operational management of his or her team, structures the work around
identified processes, steers performance, and facilitates the resolution of problems.
• Manager 1st HR&Coach: contributes to the development of his or her staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism, and attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct of institutional policies, the state of mind, and the expected individual and collective behaviour.
Mission 2: Strategy and steering
Responsibility 1: Defines the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool
• Helps with the development of operational strategy (StratOp) in line with HI strategy, StraTechs and Development plans (notably 3I and Emergency), including the development of the StratOp monitoring tool;
• Defines and oversees the programme’s MEAL action plan;
• Drives the performance of his or her service.
• Leads the assessment of local partners’ MEAL/IM capacities and the resulting capacity-building plans
Mission 3 : Standards and expertise
Responsibility 1: Designs the program’s MEAL and IM systems and monitors their implementation and quality
• Is responsible for defining systems for monitoring, data collection, information management, evaluation, accountability to populations, learning, and knowledge management that are adapted to the context of intervention and ensure compliance with HI standards;
• Ensures that the systems put in place on the various projects are consistent with each other and with HI’s frameworks and standards and enable the consolidation of information for use in the programme’s global management.

Mission 4: Operational implementation

Responsibility 1: Contributes towards improving HI’s response within his/her geographical scope

• Is responsible for the implementation of tools for measuring outcomes and impact that facilitate decision-making, learning, and accountability;
  • Is responsible for putting in place a system for ensuring accountability towards populations;
  • Contributes towards the articulation and application of HI’s institutional policies and crosscutting approaches;

Responsibility 2: Contributes towards defining and improving the quality of projects in line with HI’s global frameworks and technical standards

• Provides technical support to the technical specialists in establishing quality indicators, monitoring methods and
  data collection tools;
• Contributes to the design and drafting of project proposals;
• Is responsible for ensuring that regular project evaluations take place.

Responsibility 3: Contributes towards improving the quality of project management, as defined in HI’s Project Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) policy

• Provides technical support to the project and partners teams for the implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and accountability tools and methods;
• Provides technical support to operations managers, country managers, and project managers for the application of PME policy and verifies its application.

Responsibility 4: Contributes towards the ownership of learning frameworks and methodologies by the programmes and by HI in general

•  Is responsible, for implementing processes and methods for collecting, analysing, modelling, and ownership of the
  knowledge produced;
• Proposes an analysis of the information collected and the knowledge produced to strengthen collective learning;
• Ensures the continuous improvement of learning frameworks and methodologies;
• Ensures access to relevant internal and external information for all staff.

Responsibility 5: Ensures the external representation and promotion of HI’s expertise in His/her field.

• Represents HI’s MEAL and IM expertise in all relevant regional networks;
• Contributes towards advocacy on specific subjects (notably through the consolidation of evidence-based factors) in line with the StratOp and federal advocacy priorities;
• Contributes locally to communication messages in line with the StratOp and federal communication priorities.

Mission 5: Emergency Preparedness and Response Responsibilities

• Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response.

• Qualifications: Master’s degree in humanitarian aid and/or development and/or international project management, or other related and relevant fields (international studies, etc.)
• Experience: Minimum 3 years’ experience in the field of humanitarian aid and development project coordination, including at least 2 years in MEAL-related jobs.
  Skills

Skills

• Management skills
  • Being capable of helping team members to progress: developing his or her staff‘s ability to work autonomously
  • Knowing how to position oneself so things can move forward
  • Knowing how to simplify and prioritise