One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
Around the globe, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them.
In all we do, Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.
About us
Oxfam is a global community who believe 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.
Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.
Our values and commitment to safeguarding
Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.
The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.
OUR WORK IN ETHIOPIA
Since the early 1970s, we have been working to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization by focusing on developing sustainable livelihoods, providing water and sanitation, agriculture, climate research, gender, and humanitarian issue
We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at the interview stage
TEAM PURPOSE:
The Programmes Team will ensure that the programmes make the proper shift, with the quality needed to ensure a proper achievement of the Ethiopia Oxfam Country Strategy. As part of the programmes team, the whole team on the sectors of the whole programmes will ensure that the Goal 1 (Goal One – Saving Lives, and Resilient Livelihoods) and Goal 2 (Goal Two – Empowered communities and accountable governance) of the OCS are achieved with the required quality and timely. This team will work very closely with the programme teams ensuring the link between all Six programmes focused on: Humanitarian Response and Resilience Building; Sustainable Food and Climate Change; Urban Development; Gender Justice; Youth for the Future (Y4F) and the right to be Heard-Governance and Accountability.
JOB PURPOSE:
The MEAL Coordinator is responsible for the development and implementation of MEAL tools and systems for Oxfam projects and programmes. This includes conducting, managing, and documenting key discrete MEAL milestones, events, and processes, building partner MEAL capacity, MEAL internal and external reporting, and knowledge management between departments and partner affiliates to ensure Oxfam benefits from applied programme learning. She/He is also responsible for leading/conducting different surveys, assessments, evaluations, and post-distribution monitoring for programs/projects as per Oxfam program quality standards, Core Humanitarian Standards as well as CAMSA minimum requirements and also work with the field programme teams, Other INGOs, partners, clusters and other local agencies and key line-local Government officials.
This role is also responsible for developing and coordinating the implementation of a comprehensive MEAL system to enhance our ability to demonstrate the impact of our long-term development programme needs and humanitarian response in all interventions for both refugees, IDPs, and host community response programs.
POST HOLDER REPORTS TO
Program Quality and Learning Manager
JOBS REPORTING TO THIS POST
MEAL Officer
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY
No
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
MEAL system development and making functional
Lead Oxfam Ethiopia programmes, projects, and consortium members in the development of a program Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) framework with indicators for output, outcome, and impact and, lead the development of a strategy that informs effective programme delivery by relevant program staffs at all levels.
Provide MEAL technical support including MEAL activity plan, methodological design, need assessments, baseline, post distribution monitoring, evaluations, and performance data collection for all Oxfam projects.
Work closely with Program quality and Learning/MEAL team and develop MEAL tools and MEAL activities for new projects and programs.
Timely plan, initiate, lead and coordinate different evaluations, assessments, and surveys including KAP surveys/PDMs and Baseline/End line surveys in line with Oxfam policies and standards.
Lead the design and development of innovative tools, apps, templates, and resources for effective programme monitoring and reporting.
In consultation with Program Managers, PQL team, EFSL, WASH, Gender and Protection technical team leaders, and other program teams, develop evaluation design, including specification of the necessary staff and resources to conduct the evaluation.
Guide, Monitor/supervise, and coordinate baselines, assessments, and evaluations and select and recruit experienced enumerators for data collection.
Manage, coordinate and strengthen the data management, data analysis, reporting, and information use system of projects
Compile and review different internal reports, including monthly humanitarian programme progress report, Oxfam Annual output reporting, One Program Report, Annual Operational report, Annual ACSO reports, etc and submit to the Program Quality and Learning Manager.
Support the programme Quality and Learning Manager in preparing donor reports, monthly, quarterly, and other periodic reports in line with the reporting schedule and MEAL Framework.
Support the PQL team members in developing/reviewing the log frame/result framework, MEAL plan, and Indicator Performance Reporting Table (IPTT) of the project(s) and preparing & submit the IPTT report monthly.
Support the Consortium members’ MEAL teams in compiling & reporting the total number of beneficiaries reached as per their respective guidelines.
Work with the Consortium members MEAL team in documenting best practices in line with the ECHO communication and visibility guidelines
Work closely with all MEAL teams at all levels and establish and implement a digital and offline database system
Lead and supervise field data collection, data cleaning, and analysis for program managers and team leaders and produce reports together with the sector technical team.
Lead, review, revise and update all survey and evaluation reports and ensure data quality including timeliness, relevance, accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all program and project data of Oxfam.
Review and standardize data collectors training to ensure high-quality data collection
Management and updating central database of KAP surveys end-term results and learning from reflection workshops, learning reviews, and evaluations
Capacity Building, Networking, and Representation
Participate in the selection and recruitment of MEAL officers and MEAL Assistants and train field MEAL team on Oxfam CAMSA, MEAL frameworks, tools, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
In consultation and collaboration with PQL Manager and other MEAL teams assist to build the capacity of staff through training to ensure the adoption of new data monitoring tools and the quality of data collected.
Attending Coordination forums that include humanitarian accountability
Facilitate capacity building for Oxfam program staff to enable them to monitor and evaluate their efforts, gather relevant data and produce required progress reports
Provide Technical support and training on MEAL to partners’ MEAL officers (s) and Staff with support from their respective MEAL managers.
Ensure effective common understanding between Oxfam, other partners, and Consortium members on MEAL objectives and frameworks and organise orientation/workshops/training
Support Oxfam and other partners and Consortium members MEAL in undertaking training needs assessment and organizing MEAL training/Inductions as per the CAMSA guideline.
Lead the current projects MEAL Technical Working Group (TWG) and follow up on the MEAL activities that need to be undertaken at the consortium level.
Program Quality, Learning, and Accountability
Work closely with the Program Quality and Learning Manager, and MEAL officers and implement beneficiary compliance and feedback mechanism, collect beneficiary complaints and feedback, and communicate with the field team.
Collect and share monthly monitoring and accountability reports
Assist Program Quality and Learning Manager and co-facilitate quarterly after-action reviews including learning and reflection events, stakeholder consultation, and proven feedback from the o program management team.
Support the team in the delivery of learning and reflection workshops and other programmatic learning processes and products
Collecting best practices, and case studies that demonstrate qualitative and quantitative changes over the period.
Support the setup of a complaint and response mechanism based on the IDPs and host community contexts,
Assure that ICT is used in Beneficiary registration and Data collection in line with the Project MEAL framework.
Promote and support monitoring, analysis, and learning from assessments of internal standards (Quality Framework) and Core Humanitarian Standards, accountability and transparency standards, protection minimum standards, and others.
Work with the responsible programme or project teams to develop a culture of programme quality and knowledge-driven programming, providing support to management for evidence-based decision-making processes.
Ensure that all MEAL work is carried out in a way that is sensitive to gender and protection issues.
Maintaining evaluation, research, and learning repositories
People development and management
Manage and support teams to deliver on the plans, providing coordination, leadership, inspiration, and guidance
Facilitate identification of needs, planning, and implementation of Oxfam and partners, long term and humanitarian response team capacity building in MEAL, and build the capacity of Oxfam and partner staff to deliver MEAL, including through induction, training, and coaching
Work with the PQL Manager to ensure that the management of teams is in line with Oxfam’s HR policies and procedures.
Work with the PQL manager to ensure that team members have access to staff development opportunities, identify and address capacity gaps and provide ongoing counselling and support to team members
Undertake other responsibilities as assigned by the line manager
Other
Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women’s rights.
Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety, and staff safety health and wellbeing principles.
The post holder is expected to be familiar with and abide by the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), NGO/Red Cross Code of Conduct, the People in Aid Code, Oxfam International procedures, and other regulatory codes (e.g. InterAction Field Co-operation Protocol; including safeguarding.
Depending on the situation, the post holder may be asked to perform other tasks as requested by the Manager
Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to:
Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE, AND EQUALITY
Our Values
Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and have the same rights and opportunities.
Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them.
Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world.
Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice.
Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for.
Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes.
Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:
1. Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating sensitivity to cultural differences and gender equality.
2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work.
3. Be committed to undertaking Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible.
Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and apply the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here:
Read this guide to find out more about what our values, organisational attributes, and feminist leadership approach mean for how we work
For this role, we have selected three of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here:
1 Self-Awareness
2 Mutual accountability
3 Strategic Thinking and Judgment
Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
MSc or BSc. in Economics, Development Studies, Statistics/Management, or another related field
Minimum 7 years of proven experience in programme monitoring, evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) preferably in the long term, humanitarian, advocacy, and campaign programmes
Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
Experience in working effectively within a large international agency including, in the long term and Emergency response setting
Knowledge and practice of SAFE programming and international standards like Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), SPHERE, LEGS, etc
Excellent computer skills and ability to work in a challenging and dynamic context
Excellent English writing skills
Fluent English language and the ability to communicate in the local language would be an added advantage
Commitment to overcome poverty and suffering.
Proven experience in gender analysis and integrating gender and safe programming (protection) into the programme
Ability to work well under pressure and in response to changing needs.
Ability to travel and work under challenging circumstances
Desirable
Research background and knowledge of statistical packages (SPSS or STATA)
Good understanding of WASH, Protection, and EFSVL programming in programming
Prior experience training/accompanying/learning in the field.
Experience leading strategy development and implementation monitoring in collaboration with staff
Proven ability to synthesize and distil information from a variety of sources, to draw lessons from project documentation
Applicant with knowledge of the local language is preferable.
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