MEAL Coordinator Summary

The MEAL Coordinator will report directly to the Senior MEAL Specialist. S/he will be based in the Tamale Sub Office in Northern Ghana.

CARE Ghana is excited to invite your applications for new job openings in our programs and operations. Not only do we offer exceptional opportunities for career growth for Ghanaians especially women and young people, but we are also proud to welcome talented people such as yourself into the global CARE community where our core values of Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality and Excellence are the benchmarks against which we measure ourselves as leaders and employees

If you share these values and our passion for saving lives, defeating poverty, and achieving social justice, then CARE Ghana is the place for you. We hire and nurture great people from diverse backgrounds, abilities, and identities, striving every day and at all levels to build and sustain an inclusive workplace and a sense of belonging for our teams. Your wellbeing and satisfaction with your job in CARE Ghana matter as much to us as your performance. Our compensation and benefits package are generous, and we offer flexible working conditions to enable you to enjoy life outside of work, and as part of our commitment to equity.

At CARE, we recognize that skills and expertise can come from a range of experiences from work and life, in addition to education or past job titles. As such, we welcome applications from dynamic, curious, and creative Ghanaians with a passion for learning and problem-solving.

Interested? If yes, please see details of the job opening below:

Job Title: MEAL Coordinator Duty station: Tamale, Northern Region
The USAID-supported Agricultural Governance, Resilience and Economic Empowerment (AGREE) Activity has the overall goal to ensure responsive governance for improved agricultural sector development in Ghana. In September 2020, the scope of the Activity was expanded to include the Women in Shea (WISH) Initiative to advance women’s economic empowerment. The Activity aligns with USAID’s Country Development and Cooperation Strategy for Ghana in ensuring:

Strengthened Responsive, Democratic Governance
Sustainable and Broad Economic Growth.
USAID recently extended the conflict component to consider social cohesion, early warning, chieftaincy and natural resource management and media.

The MEAL Coordinator will be required to travel within and outside the 5 target regions in Northern Ghana for project activities. The occupant will maintain cordial relations with partners, donor representatives and work colleagues at all levels to promote the needs for data gathering, entry, maintenance and retrieval for reporting and performance tacking purposes within the Project Coordination Unit (PCU).

The MEAL Coordinator will report directly to the Senior MEAL Specialist. S/he will be based in the Tamale Sub Office in Northern Ghana.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

Support the Senior MEAL Specialist to Design and Manage Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning System
Design and implement performance monitoring frameworks including the development of log frames, results framework, project planning matrix, indicators and monitoring tools in line with CARE and USAID requirements.
Lead the project team to implement appropriate methods and strategies for monitoring and evaluating performance of implementing partners and of the entire program (including field visits, quarterly reports, specialized surveys and other sources of data/information).
Lead the development of TOR for internal and external evaluations such as baseline survey, mid-term evaluations, final evaluations.
Support the generation and use of evidence-based data/information for project management and implementing partners through regular reflections and feedback sessions with the team.
Participate in the development and writing of strategies, work plans and assessments.
Data Collection, Analysis and Quality Assurance

Support the Senior MEAL Specialist to develop appropriate data collection tools needed for effective data collection to respond to donor and organizational requirements.
Support and update the electronic Management Information System (MIS) for data entry and storage at the PCU and partner levels.
Regularly update the projects’ Performance Indicator Tracking Template (PITT) with updates on KPIs with information gathered from regular monitoring to update the project database.
Conduct monthly data cleaning and analysis and produce graphic and reports for quarterly reporting.
Support in the analysis of data collected under the monitoring framework for assessment of progress and areas requiring improvement.
Conduct site visits to ensure quality, reliability, and consistency of data and transmission to the CARE office and to the donor to feed into reports in CARE PIIRS and USAID‘s DIS systems respectively.
Ensure maximum safeguards to protect the integrity of electronic database and any other data collection files in compliance with CARE and donor data security requirements.
Implement quality assurance procedures to ensure accuracy, validity and reliability of monitoring data and study results.
Reporting, Knowledge management, Collaboration and Learning.

Support the preparation of comprehensive and clear reports based on mandatory USAID and CARE reports including PIIRS.
Process data professionally for archiving consistent with donor’s digital data archive policies.
Support to build capacities of project staff and partners in results-based M&E and collaborate with PCU to institute a culture of evidenced based M&E.
Maintain strategic relationships with stakeholders to promote consultation, collaboration, coordination and information sharing with other organizations, communities of practice and projects for effective complementation and integration of approaches.
Support in organizing pause-and-reflect sessions on findings and recommendations to give feedback from field data collection and evaluations towards improved program quality.
Work with the communication staff and program team to ensure proper documentation through knowledge management approaches.
Implement a Gender Transformative and Inclusive Monitoring System

Implement a Gender transformative M&E system by ensuring that the project collects and Analyses:

Sex and age disaggregated data.
Tracking gender dynamics in targeted themes (result areas) and communities.
Identifying vulnerabilities, and responses to the needs of participants and unintended consequences of AGREE’s social engagements.
Profiling Changes in agency, relations, and structures as observed in project communities.
Gender and social norms impacted through participatory and qualitative engagements and monitoring processes.
Skills Required
Knowledge

Knowledge in monitoring, evaluation, data analysis accountability, learning, and research methodologies and standards.
Conversant in behaviour change practices in the areas of governance, peace and conflict management.
Experience

At least 4 years’ work experience in Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Management or any relevant field.
Knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluation, accountability, learning, research and evaluation methodologies, standards and practices (preferably in relation to Women Economic Justice)
Strong analytical, critical thinking, research and report writing skills as well as excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
Independent, self-starter, creative and efficiently meet deadlines.
Ability to work under minimum or no supervision.
A team player and ready to work in and contribute to team building environment.
A team builder, appreciates cultural diversity and inclusion, safeguarding/protection issues etc.
GIS Experience in web-based data management system, KoboCollect, Open Data Kit, mobile data collection.
Demonstrable understanding of contemporary trends and innovations in MEAL and an IT literate.
Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong skills in qualitative and quantitative analytic statistical software (e.g., STATA, SPSS), and proven ability in data visualization using graphs, charts and maps.
Results orientation with focus on quality
Cross-Cultural knowledge and adaptability
Facilitation and Presentation Skills
Managing Diversity
Emotional Intelligence with strong composure under pressure
Negotiating results and equitable outcomes
Sensitivity to CARE’s organizational vision, values and objectives​
Education

Degree in Development Studies, Statistics, Project Management, Social Science, or related field.

How To Apply
Submit your CV (and a cover letter if you wish) via email to hr.ghana@care.org.

Include the job title of the opportunity in the subject line.
Submission deadline is Friday, 10 May 2024.
Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.