Save the Children National MEAL Manager Jobs 2023 – Uganda NGO Jobs.
Save the Children Uganda looking for “National MEAL Manager”.
Applicants with a degree in University Degree may apply on or before August 01, 2023.
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We work in around 120 countries. We save children’s lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children strives to achieve a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. We work to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Across all of our work, we pursue several core values: accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.
Save the Children National MEAL Manager Jobs 2023
The Save the Children has published a job vacancy announcement on July 20, 2023 for qualified Uganda’s to fill in the vacant post of National MEAL Manager to be based in Kampala, Uganda.
| Recruiter | Save the Children |
| Position | National MEAL Manager |
| Location | Kampala, Uganda |
| Country | Uganda |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Seven years |
| Application Deadline | August 01, 2023 |
Save the Children Job Vacancy 2023
Key Areas of Accountability:
MEAL Technical Leadership
- Lead and oversee the implementation of SCI MEAL System for humanitarian and development programmes, which may include linkages with local implementation partners, and must be in line with SCI’s Quality Framework. Project-specific MEAL systems need to meet demands and standards of different donors.
- Lead and support the implementation and use of key MEAL tools and processes to measure performance and quality: project and program log frames, MEAL Plans, Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT), Quality Benchmarks and databases for all projects
- Support development and precise definition of SMART indicators with technical teams, ensure quality mechanisms are in place, and ensure consistency with the country office and global standards using the SCI PRIME project management system
- Support technical and implementation teams to develop and carry out needs assessments, baselines, evaluation, post-distribution monitoring and any other research studies, ensure the technical and methodological rigour of these products.
- Lead routine data collection, analysis and use of evidence, including disaggregation for gender, disability and the most marginalised and deprived, to document impact, innovate and learn what work for children, and inform management, policy and programme solutions.
- Lead use of systems that safely and appropriately ensure accountability to children and communities with whom we work by building trusting and collaborative relationships through information sharing and two-way communication, participation, and feedback and reporting mechanisms.
- Systematically identify, document, share and use learning from Save the Children and others’ work, to continuously adapt and improve our programming. This includes learning agendas, learning workshops and after-action reviews, action planning and tracking of learning uptake.
- Lead and guide MEAL staff in managing, performing and prioritizing MEAL tasks and deliverables
- Provide technical MEAL support and occasional oversight to partner,s and guide and coach other MEAL staff to provide technical support and occasional oversight to partner MEAL activities.
- Foster innovation by identifying opportunities to pilot new approaches and to upgrade tools, systems and process based on advances in the aid sector.
Position in Organization:
- Job Identification: 2368
- Job Category: Programme Operations
- Posting Date: 07/19/2023, 06:21 PM
- Apply Before: 08/01/2023, 05:29 AM
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Locations: Kampala
Qualification:
- At least a Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Social Sciences or related field with a Post Graduate Diploma in M&E or Project planning and Management.
- A masters degree in the relevant field will be an added advantage
- At lease 7 years of programming experience within the aid sector, preferably linked to one or more of Save the Children’s priority technical sectors (Child Poverty, Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Health & Nutrition), and with the majority of that time focused on overseeing comprehensive MEAL systems that ensure programme effectiveness and quality.
- Understanding of both emergency and development contexts, with a preference for experience in both contexts.
- Experience adhering to international quality standards (Red Cross Code of Conduct, Sphere, CHS) or equivalent.
- Experience and knowledge of evidence generation and learning on what works (and doesn’t work) for children, including designing/commissioning, implementing and applying: needs assessments, baseline studies, evaluations and research, learning workshops and learning agendas.
- Experience and knowledge of systems for accountability to children and communities, including information sharing, participation of adults and children, and feedback and reporting mechanisms. Direct experience working with communities in participatory activities.
- Proven success in building and managing a team and dedication to developing staff capacity through training, supervising, coaching and mentoring.
- Knowledge of data analysis principles and software (ideally SPSS, STATA, R, ArcGIS, Power Bi, NVivo, and/or ATLAS.ti)
- Experience in using mobile data collection platforms (like Kobo Collect, COMM Care, ODK, Epi Info, Survey CTO, etc).
- Skilled at communicating and influencing across relevant teams and offices.
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
- Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, defining and planning a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in.
- Ability and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure contexts, including flexibility to work with emergency response teams.
- Willingness to travel to field locations.
- Proficient in speaking and writing English.
- Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
- Experience and knowledge of Save the Children’s structure, mandate and child focus.
How to Apply Save the Children National MEAL Manager Jobs 2023
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/2368/
The Closing Date: August 01, 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | uganda.savethechildren.net |
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