OXFAM KEDV in Turkiye
Contract type: National fixed term for 6 months contract with possibility of extension (for Turkish nationality or those who have work permit)
Reporting to: Area Manager / Matrix Manager MEAL Coordinator
Staff reporting to this post: N/A
Budget Responsibility: N/A
Locations: Gaziantep / Hatay / Kahramanmaraş
*This is a Rapid Recruitment - we would undertake shortlisting and interviews as applications come in and may appoint before a closing date.
Shaping a stronger Oxfam KEDV for people living in poverty.
Oxfam KEDV Purpose
To work with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering.
Oxfam is a global community who believes poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.
Team Purpose
Collaborate with program and partners teams to ensure quality implementation.
Job Purpose
Under the supervision of MEAL Coordinator, the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and accountability (MEAL) Officer will support monitoring and evaluation activities across Oxfam’s intervention, this includes process and tools development, data collection and analysis, reporting. S/he will work on the following areas: qualitative and quantitative data collection, assessment scheduling and coordination, data analysis and use, and quality monitoring.
The MEAL Officer will contribute to support Oxfam’s partners to apply the standard monitoring approaches in line with Oxfam’s strategy and framework. In addition to review the partners’ tools and database to ensure their accuracy which should meet the standard indicators.
Dimensions
- Strong capacity building skills for staff development, both within the Information and Data Management team and with other staff across the organization.
- Ability to distil complex technical information into accessible and usable formats for non-specialists, including through data visualization and reporting.
- Sources of information are diverse, ranging from secondary source to data collection in program and non-program areas, often requiring judgement on credibility and accuracy.
- Work patterns are non-routine, often high pressure, and require adaptability to changing circumstances in the management of information and data.
- Essential experience in information and data management, gained through professional work both inside and outside of the organization, with experience in the humanitarian or development sectors preferred.
- Maximises sharing of lessons learnt
Key Responsibilities
1. Develop the data collection tools and MEAL activities that provides accurate and usable figures and information.
- Assist in the design of information collection tools and interviews.
- Manage the accuracy, timeliness and completeness of data collection process
- Organize data collection process/analyse this data.
- Take part and carry out assessments, evaluation and any other form of survey
- Maintain projects progress tracking on a timely manner.
- Manage digital data collection using digital data collection technology of Oxfam.
- Support Program teams in feeding the needed reports
2. Team Management and Capacity Building:
- Provide direct supervision of the Enumerators/field team
- Provide capacity building trainings to enumerators/field team on MEAL surveys.
3. Partner’s Support
- Ensure that all the relevant partner staff know, meet, and apply Oxfam MEAL requirements
- Ensure positive and effective coaching from Oxfam to partner MEAL staff.
- Train the partners on program monitoring and data collection tools.
- Contribute to partnership monitoring by participating in partner review meetings and processes.
- Ensure follow up regular meetings with partner’s focal points (face to face and/or online)
4. Reporting:
- Develop and revise monitoring activities reports for MEAL activities in the field
- Support timely and quality submission of MEAL reporting sections
- Lead the monthly data submissions for the beneficiaries figures and outputs
Skills and Competence:
- Education level in Social Sciences, Statistics or related field
- Previous relevant experience, such as data collection and analysis, reporting, etc
- Demonstrated ability in community mobilization and community-level dialogue
- Strong skills in excel and other data management software
- Extensive experience in knowledge and database management (Excel, Access, PowerBI, Smartsheets, etc.)
- Fluent English and Turkish, both spoken and written
- Experience of deliver data collection and MEAL trainings
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- Ability and willingness to travel into Project sites for regular monitoring visits.
How to apply
Please send your CV and a cover letter to ik@kedv.org.tr and indicate the name of the position in the subject line.