CRS MEAL Regional Technical Advisor Jobs 2023 – Zambia NGO Jobs.
CRS Zambia looking for “MEAL Regional Technical Advisor”.
Applicants with a Master’s Degree may apply on or before November 10, 2023.
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peace building.
CRS MEAL Regional Technical Advisor Jobs 2023
The CRS has published a job vacancy announcement on October 31, 2023 for qualified Zambia’s to fill in the vacant post of MEAL Regional Technical Advisor to be based in Lusaka, Zambia.
| Recruiter | Catholic Relief Services (CRS) |
| Position | MEAL Regional Technical Advisor III – SARO |
| Location | Lusaka, Zambia |
| Country | Zambia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Master’s Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Seven (07) Year’s |
| Application Deadline | November 10, 2023 |
CRS Job Vacancy 2023
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
- Provides technical review and support across range of sectoral projects
- Lead design and implementation of SARO-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices for MEAL that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates agriculture, youth, peacebuilding, gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
- Incorporate required and emerging good practices into regional MEAL efforts and ongoing technical support.
- Serve as champion/lead on CRS MEAL Policy and Procedures to improve program quality; work with CPs to ensure the implementation of MPPs
- Serve as SARO’s champion/lead on Global Results reporting working closely with PIQA MEAL colleagues and provide support to CPs in all aspects of GR reporting.
- Lead development and advancement of SARO and agency-wide standards, policies, innovative approaches and tools for MEAL including application of partnership principles, with particular emphasis on tracking impact at scale.
- Lead capacity strengthening initiatives for staff and partners through ensuring development of learning agendas/curriculums, organizing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops and conferences, leading a community of practice and mentoring and coaching staff in innovative CRS approaches and tools. Provide mentoring and coaching to TAs, as well as CP, platform and regional staff.
- Play a key role in the development and implementation of the agency’s approach to measuring influence and catalyzing scale, in coordination with the CASCADE Project.
- Provide technical assistance to research activities in SARO.
- Lead and provide support to the regional office and Country Programs in the use of appropriate ICT4D solutions, design of digital forms for data collection and the design of approaches for data visualization that facilitate the use of data and quality reporting
- Participate in the selection and onboarding of MEAL staff, ensuring the communication of an agency approach to MEAL.
- Manage an Accountability and Learning/KML (title to be confirmed) staff to be hired in FY2024
- Effectively manage talent and supervise the ____ (above position). Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance assessment for direct reports. Ensure integration of direct-reports as well as matrixed team members, such as MEAL leads from country programs.
- Contribute to regional, platform and country program staff efforts to pre-position CRS for strategic growth opportunities through supporting consistent and meaningful data generation, storage, analysis and translation into evidence.
- Provide technical guidance in proposal development and project design with a focus on complex projects to ensure innovative MEAL solutions, technical excellence and sound MEAL plans.
- Lead and support CPs in SMILER+ and overall MEAL system development processes.
- Lead SARO knowledge management and learning agendas through setting conditions for collective learning that ensure the capturing, documenting, and sharing of key successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based implementation research, internally and externally, including publications in peer reviewed journals.
- Participate in monthly meetings with MEAL advisors from other regions and headquarters to coordinate efforts, share learnings and guide priorities for the agency’s MEAL practice.
- Review scopes of work and proposals for project evaluations and research proposals, ensuring the highest quality standards are implemented in SARO.
Position in Organization:
- Position: MEAL Regional Technical Advisor
- Job Identification: 3001029
- Job Category: Technical Programming
- Posting Date: 26/10/2023, 01:18
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Job Shift: Day
- Locations: Lusaka, Zambia
Basic Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in field(s) related to International Development required. PhD or equivalent degree (e.g., MD, DrPH, EdD) a plus.
- Minimum of seven years of work experience in research, monitoring and evaluation, with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with three years overseas in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of research, monitoring and evaluation.
- Strong understanding and application of technical principles and concepts for research, monitoring and evaluation.
- Good knowledge of related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
- Track record of contributing significantly to successful business development activities capturing public and/or private donor funding.
- Experience with program monitoring and evaluation including development of indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
- Experience and skills to represent the organization at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, local partners – faith-based and civil society. Understanding of partnership principles.
- Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications and strong understanding of information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks.
How to Apply CRS MEAL Regional Technical Advisor Jobs 2023
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
https://eipn.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/3001029
The Closing Date: November 10, 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.crs.org |
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