We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030. No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthdayAll children learn from a quality basic education and that, Violence against children is no longer tolerated. We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Job Summary
- Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
- ROLE PURPOSE:
- Save the Children is an international independent non-governmental, non-profit, organization founded in 1919. We work in over 120 countries worldwide. We are the world’s leading independent organization for Children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in how the world treats children and achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
- We are helping children get a better education, we make it possible for more boys and girls to attend school, and we help children protect themselves and influence their own conditions. We work with families and communities to actively take part in improving their children's condition and strengthen access to education at the community and school levels.
- The role holder in close coordination with the MEAL Coordinator will conduct regular quality monitoring from field implementation, follow up to increase accountability to the beneficiaries and other stakeholders, and track the project’s MEAL tool and documentation.
- SCOPE OF ROLE:
- Reports to: MEAL Officer
- Staff reporting to this post: N/A
- Direct: 00
- Indirect: 00
- Budget Responsibilities: NA
- KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
- Output Monitoring:
- Follow-up on reporting by responsible staff on Output Indicators as per the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
- Prepare Output Monitoring Report against project Output Project Indicators and provide information on achievement against the Indicators.
- Make field visits to verify the achievements of Output Indicators.
- Monitoring:
- Organize 75% of the time for field visits to monitor program activities/ interventions against quality benchmark; share monitoring reports in line with preset quality benchmark findings and prepare action plan jointly with the program team.
- Ensure that the monitoring action tracker, & plan tracker have been maintained and updated on time
- Conduct follow-up monitoring visits to materialize action agreed in the action tracker and plan tracker and maintain 'Monitoring – Action, & Plan Tracker' at the field level.
- Crosscheck and verify output monitoring data and share its findings with the concerned program team.
Key responsibilities of SCI Jobs in Sar-e Pol, (MEAL Assistant):
- Ensure that all staff in the Province fully understand and promote accountability in general and to children in particular through training and coaching.
- Establish an effective functional system for feedback and reporting handling and response mechanisms at the Provincial level with support from the Provincial MEAL Officer.
- Ensure the Program team has shared community sharing tools (pocket calendar with MEAL's information, master flex print, toll-free number, and objectives of the activity/ project) with the beneficiaries.
- Support the MEAL Officer to ensure that the feedback and reporting mechanism issues are addressed on time.
- Ensure the feedback and reporting have been timely recorded and sent to the FRM focal Point.
- Conduct preliminary verification and prepare the preliminary report in case of serious nature of feedback/reporting filed by beneficiaries/ communities.
- Global Indicators Compilation:
- Provide support in the field to the program team while conducting data collection for Global Indicators.
- Evaluation:
- Support program team and consultants in the field while conducting situation analysis study, baseline, midterm, and end-line evaluation.
- MEAL in Emergencies:
- Perform MEAL quality monitoring, and field visits during humanitarian response activities (viz. temporary learning centers/ safe space, temporary schools) and while distributing food items (FIs) and non-food items (NFIs).
- Assist the Provincial MEAL Officer during the onset of emergencies.
- Data Management:
- The MEAL Assistant will be responsible for managing data at the project level of Outputs Indicators, Quality Monitoring, and FRM (Feedback and Reporting Mechanism).
- Lead the data collection and entry of any evaluation conducted for the project at the provincial level.
- BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
- Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children values
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
- Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
- Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
- Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- willing to take disciplined risks.
- Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
Job Requirment
- University degree in social science, and related studies is preferred
- 2 years of work experience with NGOs, INGOs.
- 1 year experience MEAL or M&E relevant fields.
- EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Essential
- Fluency in written and spoken English is a key requirement.
- Well computer literate, having good access to MS Office Package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint & Access)
- Additional job responsibilities
- The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive. The role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their skills and experience.
- Equal Opportunities
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
- Child Safeguarding:
- We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
- Health and Safety
- The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Submission Guideline
Country
Afghanistan
City
Sar-e Pul
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