Organization: DRC – Danish Refugee Council
Location: Akobo | Pibor
Grade: Level not specified – Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
Administrative support
Education, Learning and Training
Monitoring and Evaluation
Closing Date: 2025-01-17
Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, we are excited to invite you to join our team as a MEAL Assistant. If you are a skilled and motivated professional ready to make a difference, we want you on board! Together, we’ll work to deliver impactful humanitarian solutions in challenging environments.
About job
In order to increase awareness of AHEAD and anticipatory action programming centered on conflict-induced displacement in South Sudan, the East Africa and Great Lakes (EAGL) region, and worldwide, the AHEAD MEAL Assistants (Akobo and Pibor) will take the lead in creating a strong body of evidence for the AHEAD Project. Regular output monitoring, gathering quantitative and qualitative data from target communities, facilitating learning reviews with project staff, maintaining project community feedback channels, creating audio-visual content after relevant training, and creating key activation-based and periodic MEAL reports using templates are all part of the MEAL activities.
Responsibilities
- Consolidate and review Means of Verification (MoV) documentation.
- Aggregate and input output values into the Indicator Tracking Table (ITT).
Quantitative Data Collection
- Translate quantitative tools provided by HQ.
- Train and supervise enumerators for data collection (phone-based or in-person).
- Assist with preliminary data cleaning and translation for specific response categories.
Qualitative Data Collection
- Design and translate qualitative tools (e.g., FGD, IDI/KII guides).
- Conduct qualitative data collection (FGD, IDI/KII).
- Train female data collectors, particularly for protection-related roles.
- Clean and analyze qualitative data using tagging or coding software (e.g., Taguette).
Learning
- Facilitate after-action reviews and other learning sessions.
- Present MEAL findings to HQ and South Sudan teams, including SMT.
- Support internal/external evaluations, including midterm and endline reviews.
- Analyze and communicate MEAL findings externally.
Audio-Visual Content
- Capture and produce audio-visual materials according to HQ standards.
Community Feedback
- Implement community engagement and feedback mechanisms.
- Support the Community Feedback Mechanism by registering, processing, and following up on complaints.
Compliance
- Ensure data handling aligns with GDPR and ethical standards.
- Apply accountability frameworks and adhere to DRC’s Code of Conduct and protection protocols.
Key Outputs
- Post-activation reports.
- Lessons learned and case studies reports.
- Community feedback and complaints dashboard.
- Audio-visual content, including captioned photographs and subtitled video interviews
Requirements:
a) Essential
- Minimum 1-2 years of relevant work experience in social work, community development, non-governmental organizations, or civil society
- Experience with MEAL as well as with working with with NGOs and/or the humanitarian sector
- Understanding of and ability to work with data collection software, preferably Kobo Toolbox, COMM care, ArcGIS, ODK, SurveyCTO, Taguette, NVivo, and others as relevant.
- Strong familiarity with qualitative data collection and analysis techniques.
- Basic knowledge of data analysis practices and tools and perform data quality control.
- Good understanding of Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) and ability to apply accountability and ethical standards in everyday work.
- Good skills in supporting organizational learning in programs.
- Facilitation and training skills with diverse audiences of NGO practitioners.
- Ability to engage with partners and/or a partnership model of working, when relevant
- Experience of working in insecure environments
- Competencies to work and deliver under pressure, within time constraints, and to manage job priorities.
- Good skills in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Office365.
- Ability to think critically and apply critical thinking at work.
- Demonstrated interest and ability to learn.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Desirable
- At least 4 years of experience in the humanitarian or development sectors
- Formal training in partnerships/localization
- Familiarity working in insecure environments
- Comfortable in a multi-cultural environment, flexible and able to handle pressure well.
- Good knowledge of anticipatory action on conflicts and displacement in South Sudan, and the relevant INGO’s, NGO’s, UN, Governmental institutions, and Donor.
How to apply
Simply click on the apply button, fill out of the form, upload your documents