The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.

CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND

The IRC has been present in Nigeria since 2012 when the organization responded to flooding in Kogi state. In February 2014 the IRC moved into Adamawa State in NE Nigeria to provide humanitarian interventions through a multi-sectoral, integrated approach for conflict affected populations. IRC Nigeria now operates a country office in Abuja and field offices in Mubi and Yola of Adamawa State, Maiduguri and Monguno of Borno state and Damaturu of Yobe State. Currently, IRC Nigeria implements programs primary health care, nutrition, environmental health, women’s protection and empowerment, protection, child protection, education and Economic Recovery and Development.

The Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) sector implements impact-based projects based on three of IRC’s Outcome Evidence Framework (OEF) i.e. People meet basic needs, People are food secure and People generate income and assets. IRC Nigeria focuses on the following: Emergency response in meeting food and basic needs through Cash and Voucher Assistance, strengthening Livelihoods for Youths; and Value Chain development agricultural production development

Job Overview/Summary

The MEAL Manager for ERD position reports to the ERD Coordinator with technical oversight by the MEAL Coordinator. This position is responsible for leading all M&E related assignments and management of the IRC ERD sectors in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. The position supports the development and implementation of the programs monitoring, evaluation and accountability strategy to ensure quality, timely, and accurate information in support of the implementation of sector activities. This position will support the review of proposals to ensure that core sector MEAL activities are adequately captured, as well as ensure project logframes are well designed in line with the IRC and ERD measurement standards.

Major Responsibilities

A.      ERD Thematic

• Lead the development and deployment of ERD Assessment and Monitoring tools
• Work with the ERD coordinator and SPC in streamlining logical frameworks into ERD proposal and business development processes
• Engage in the design, method and conduct of assessment, surveys and research such as Market Assessments, Needs Assessments, Price Monitoring, context analysis, baseline, PDM’s and end line, and also facilitate the commission of evaluations in coordination with colleagues and partners.
• Develop and manage ERD M&E data for  IRC annual stats,  reports, fact sheets  and SMT updates.
• Support program team to manage distribution lists and inventory balancing/stocktaking after distributions
• Identify gaps in data platform usage by program and M&E staff e.g Kobotoolbox, Commcare, RedRose e.t.c. and provide training to bridge those gaps
• Lead on presentation of ERD M&E data during internal and external meetings
• Develop and Manage data tracking database for all ERD project portfolios which are updated in real time
• Monitor relevant assessments and monitoring of Cash Voucher Assistance, in-kind and business grant disbursement activities

B.      Design and Development

• Support the sector MEAL teams in development of detailed and coherent MEAL plans that provide

1. Logical frameworks
2. Functional databases

• Accessible project dataProvide support in establishment and maintenance of monitoring systems across sectors.
• Use learning evidence and data from previous projects to inform proposal design
• In absence of MEAL coordinator, work with sector teams to ensure that proposals are reflective of organizational and donor protocols

C.      Monitoring and Evaluation

• Work with sector MEAL teams to determine which monitoring activities will take place and which data collection methods will be used to ensure data adequacy and completeness
• Work with MEAL and sector teams to track progress on action points related to implementation and MEAL activities
• Support data quality audits and resolve systemic problems in data quality
• Tracking and documenting best practices in monitoring and evaluation
• Supervise ERD MEAL field activities
• Produce quality reports and updating indicator tracking dashboards with key findings that foster learning and decision making and share in project life cycle meetings and teams meetings
• Identify, detail and share lessons learned to improve services and results for our clients

D.      Data Management and Quality Assurance

• Review existing M&E tools, systems and approaches and design various ERD data collection tools, lead data collection processes and ensure high quality data is collected
• Advocate for and support the expansion of standard mobile data technology and online dashboards to enhance timeless and quality data collection, analysis and visualization
• Develop digital data collection tools and processes for online data management
• Establish and ensure timely data flow, quality checks and audits and updating of data visualization
• Undertake regular analysis of monitoring data and work closely with ERD technical coordinator to facilitate decision making for real time program adaptation
• Participate in program coordination meeting and progress against M&E activities and budget on ERD grants.