MEAL Manager

Position Title: MEAL Manager

Activation Date: 03 March, 2025 Announced Date: 03 March, 2025 Expire Date: 15 March, 2025

• Job Location: Kabul
• Nationality: National
• Category: Monitoring and Evaluation
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: As per HI Scale
• Vacancy Number: HI-2025-0256
• No. Of Jobs: 1
• City: Kabul
• Organization: Handicap International
• Years of Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience of coordinating aid and development projects, including at least 3 years in MEAL team management.
• Contract Duration: 10 Months
• Gender: Male/Female
• Education: Master degree in humanitarian aid, statistics, economics, data science, research methods, social science and/or development and/or international project management
• Close date: 2025-03-15
  
  

About Handicap International:

HI has been supporting the Afghan people since 1987, starting its operations in Pakistan. Since 1996, HI has been operating across Afghanistan in order to launch victim assistance interventions, working at different levels of the society and adopting a cross-sectoral approach. While present on the ground to directly support victims of the conflict through the provision of a range of services – from physical rehabilitation, to mine risk education and inclusive livelihoods – HI has been continuously advocating to increase the rights of victims and other people with disabilities in the country. In particular, and in line with its global strategy and priorities, HI has been advocating to reduce the use of landmines and conventional weapons. Acknowledging the need to respond to the urgent emergency crises combined with longer term, chronic gaps in the provision of services, HI has steadily expanded its range of activities and services in order to support the most vulnerable people, enhancing their resilience while strengthening participation and inclusion of all individuals.

Job Description:

Job Purpose:

Under the management of the Technical Head of Program, the MEAL manager is responsible for the MEAL and information management (IM) teams working in the geographical area of responsibility and is the direct line-manager of 10 MEAL Officers and one IM Manager. The MEAL Manager is in charge of deploying HI’s MEAL and IM standards in the program and ensuring their application.

The overall coherence of the projects and their quality control is ensured by the MEAL department and the Technical Head of Program.

Job Description

The Duties and responsibilities may include but not limited to:

Mission 1: Management

Responsibility 1: Is line manager of the MEAL and IM teams of the programme

• Manager as a role model: embodies HI's values on a daily basis.
• Manager as coach for meaning: understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his or her team, 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 IMsystems 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 evaluationstake 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 projectand partnersteams for the implementation of monitoring, evaluation and accountability tools and methods;
• Provides technical support to operationsmanagers, countrymanagersand 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 informationfor 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.
  
  

Job Requirements:

Qualifications and Skills:

Education and professional experience;

• Master degree in humanitarian aid, statistics, economics, data science, research methods, social science and/or development and/or international project management
• Minimum of 5 years of experience of coordinating aid and development projects, including at least 3 years in MEAL team management.
• Experience in setting up of MEAL and IM systems and in drafting of survey and evaluation protocols
• Excellent knowledge of Project cycle management, knowledge management and excellent understanding to accountability with regard to affected populations /Safeguarding policies /Participatory approaches
• Demonstrate organizational skills and rigor as well as abilities to analyze and synthesis
• Solid understanding of robust qualitative and quantitative data collection
• Written and oral institutional communication in English
• Proven experience in a technical capacity involving conducting evaluations, assessments, or research and drafting technical reports
  
  

Skills

• Ability to foster teamwork, empowering and developing others.
• Excellent English communication skills (oral and written)
• Strong drafting and reporting skills
• A demonstrated results-oriented approach
• Ability to be proactive, reactive and flexible.
• Capacity to organize your work, and manage priorities
• An understanding of the frameworks and mechanisms of international development cooperation and humanitarian assistance
• A creative mindset and approach are required in order to succeed in this role.
  
  

Submission Guideline:

Application Process:

Applicants can login to the online application system by copying and pasting the following link into their web browser https://airtable.com/app6Fs2qsmY01v03j/shrOuW2QW4JKsbqcZ to submit their details and upload their required documents prior to the deadline.

Important Notes:

• Please note that only the applications received through the online platform will be considered for this position.
• It is important to note that applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Therefore, timely submission is crucial.
• After the review process, please be aware that only candidates who have been shortlisted will be contacted for the next stages of the recruitment process. If you do not hear from us within one week from the closing date , please consider that your application has not been shortlisted for further process.
• HI has got strong stand on protection of beneficiaries.
  
  

"The Role Holder will have to create and maintain an environment which prevents sexual exploitation and abuse and promotes the implementation of the code of conduct"

HI promotes and upholds the principles of equal opportunities and its policies (PSEAH, Child Protection etc). HI has a zero tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or a child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. Recruitment to all jobs in HI includes, in particular, criminal

record checks and the collection of relevant references. Safeguarding our beneficiaries is our top priority in everything we do.

Individuals with disabilities and female candidates are especially encouraged to apply. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly value the unique perspectives and contributions that you can bring to our team.

Submission Email:

https://airtable.com/app6Fs2qsmY01v03j/shrOuW2QW4JKsbqcZ