- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
- Experience
- Location Nairobi
- Job Field Project Management 
Meal Advisor at CARE
Meal Advisor
- RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and Manage MEAL Systems
- Lead the development and management of the program MEAL System for a 3.5 year program in line with the program theory of change and learning priorities
- Develop and/or define key performance indicators and impact metrics, drawing on existing indicators and tested tools as much as possible
- Develop data collection instruments and systems to support responsible data management and timely reporting between sub-awardees, CARE, and donors
- Manage and/or generate routine reports, drawing on MEAL system to assess program progress, identify emerging lessons and illustrate opportunities for improvement
- Manage data collection approaches and data management vendors
- Recruit and manage regional MEAL consultants and/or firms to support the delivery of the program MEAL system
- Help articulate an evidence base that supporting the learning agenda
- Extract insights from previous programming to inform impact assessments
- Connect with KM colleagues across CARE and the larger public to share data and findings
- Training, capacity building, and sharing learnings
- Create excellent rapport with sub-awardees and provide technical assistance across MEAL activities
- Deliver capacity building and training support to program sub-grantees as needed
- Create opportunity for cross-regional “sharing and learning” events online, in person as possible, etc.
- Willingness to travel up to 35% of the time
- Represent program with internal and external audiences
- Generating and/or supporting others to generate program reports and presentations
- Presenting program updates to internal stakeholders and donors
- Representing the program in external events and conferences
- Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and least 10 years of relevant experience with international development/financial
- inclusion/social impact organizations
- Creative and impact-driven ideas about MEAL in the context of digital inclusion
- Ability to take the lead/self-start based on the needs of the larger program
- Confidence to bring a greater voice to MEAL and make substantive program recommendations
- Mixed-method expertise, with depth in participatory and emancipatory MEAL approaches
- Strong cross-cultural communication skills, including experience working with globally distributed teams
- International work and lived experience, preferable in Sub-Saharan Africa
- An entrepreneurial mindset, comfort with ambiguity and a commitment to going beyond the status quo
- Excellent measurement tool development/use across large-scale multi-country research
- Experience delivering MEAL capacity building to support others to execute monitoring and evaluation tasks
- Direct line management and/or consultant management experience
- Fluent English speaker and writer: effective communicator, able to convert complex data and information into
- engaging reports, analysis, and insights
- Knowledge/use of digital data collection services ODK, Kobo, and participant-facing data/reporting/feedback
- systems
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in development-related methods, data science, science and technology or other relevant
- field, or the equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Experience or familiarity with the digital impact, economic empowerment and/or financial inclusion data and
- tools
- Experience measuring gender norms and/or change gender-focused programming
- Grounded in local approaches through participatory action research and other empowerment-based
- approaches
- Commitment to gender equality, localization and decolonization of aid
- Exemplary critical thinking and reasoning skills to break down complex problems and find practical solutions
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to CARE on phg.tbe.taleo.net to apply
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