No. of positions required: 1

Location/Station:  Human Right Awareness Center (HURAC), Liwang of Rolpa District

Duration: 1 Year, possibilities of extension

Role Purpose: 

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Coordinator will work as a field-level staffs in emergency situation. The MEAL Coordinator will be expected to lead on MEAL system implementation including monitoring, accountability initiatives, support evaluations, compile lessons learnt. The post holder will be expected to mentor and/or capacity building existing field level staffs as well. He/She will be responsible to manage overall MEAL related functions of HURAC Rolpa as per JD. The position will be based in HURAC Rolpa Office with equal or more than 70% field movement. The MEAL Coordinator need to balance work equally for the project and organization too.  

Key Responsibility: 

1. Planning:

• Develop/ review monitoring checklist based on quality benchmark. Translate it into Nepali, if required
• Assist program team while developing program/ project M&E plan (indicator definition, indicator calculation process; data collection tool/ methodology, frequency for data collection, responsible person and use of the information)
• Technically support in developing monitoring tools and approaches

2. Monitoring: 

• Conduct monthly quality monitoring against quality benchmark, share monitoring reports in line with preset quality benchmark findings and prepare action plan jointly with program team
• Ensure that the complaint feedback & action plan tracker have been maintained in the excel database and has also been successfully updated in the OPMIS
• Conduct follow-up monitoring visits to materialize action agreed in action plan tracker and maintain 'Monitoring - Action Plan Tracker' at field level
• Conduct quarterly output monitoring (Variance analysis, source verification & Progress of outputs) and share its finding with concerned program team
• Conduct quarterly Data Quality Assurance (DQA) as per the guideline developed during the MEAL review meeting

3. Evaluation: 

• Technically (comments on TOR and methodologies, finalize indicators, provide inputs in research questions, perform/ advise sampling tools and techniques, proof read draft reports) support program team and consultants while conducting situation analysis study, baseline, midterm evaluation and end-line evaluation
• Provide technical support in the field to program team while conducting CEMIS, QLE, child participation quality service delivery survey
• Provide technical support to program team, consultants and Operation Research Coordinators while conducting formative and operational research
• Analyze (conduct cross tabulations, perform statistical tests) baseline, midterm and evaluation datasets as per the need and requirement of program team

4. Accountability:

• Frequently visit the project areas for supervision and monitoring the field level activities 
• Prepare and submit event wise reports to Project Coordinator 
• Monitor the regular activities of We Can Learn Project and ensure for the involvement of line agencies of education-related, community to review program among the stakeholders and beneficiaries
• Ensure that all staffs of the organization fully understand and promote accountability in general and to children in particular through training and coaching
• Establish an effective functional system for complaints/ feedback handling and response mechanisms at organization
• Designing community sharing tools (pocket/ wall calendar, hoarding boards, master flex prints and radio jingles) in close coordination with SC's MEAL team
• Ensure community sharing tools are used properly (pocket calendar with MEAL's information, master flex print, radio jingles, toll-free number and objectives of the activity/ project) with the beneficiaries
• Capacitate, mentor and supervise MEAL Assistant(s) in managing complaint and feedback mechanism (accountability concerns)

5. Learning: 

• Document learning's generated through MEAL approach
• Compile case studies (quarterly) related to MEAL good practices
• Suggest program team to incorporate key learning's (generated via the CFM & Action Plan Tracker lodged in the OPMIS) in the upcoming plans and interventions

• Timely solved MEAL related issues
• Ensure proper MEAL documentation (MEAL Rack: systematic filing of: filled up CFM forms; monthly MEAL documents; case verification reports; meeting minutes during case verifications) maintained by MEAL team at HURAC
• Generate innovative approaches and ideas related to MEAL in-order to strengthen MEAL system at PNGOs (during annual MEAL workshops)

7. Reporting:

• Generate monthly MEAL quality monitoring field visit reports (project/ program intervention), quarterly output reports, quarterly DQA report, comprehensive compliance monitoring report, intensive monitoring report, LQAS report and complaint satisfaction survey report and event report.
• Support program team to compile Total Reach data.
• Share MEAL issues, concerns, status and updates during review workshops

Minimum qualification and experiences: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent having 1 year of relevant experiences in monitoring and evaluation as well as documentation & data management along with advance computer skills
• Fluent in speaking & report writing in English and Nepali languages
• The Applicant should have high commitment to contribute long time in the organization will add eligibility. The advantages will be given from statistics background