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• The MEAL Officer will be responsible for designing tools, protocols, procedures and implementing the same to ensure appropriate outcome measurement and performance management.

• She/he will provide technical leadership to develop project framework, plans and indicators to capture performance results and provide effective, accurate and timely monitoring, evaluation and reporting of all programme activities.

• The MEAL Officer will have the primary responsibility of consolidating project reports on activity outputs and outcomes and ensuring that lessons learned are integrated into project implementation to continuously improve quality of interventions and outcomes.

• The MEAL Officer is responsible for documenting and disseminating project successes and challenges to STF partners and relevant stakeholders.

• The MEAL Officer will also be responsible for designing and conducting operations research to track annual progress of the programme on key outcomes.

• Ensure quality and timely preparation of monitoring, evaluation and research reports and also timely dissemination internally and externally.

• Take lead in documentation and sharing of best practices across all STF partners and relevant stakeholders.

• Involve/include community structures in all aspects of planning and implementation monitoring and evaluation to promote and maintain sustainability.

• Liaise with district biostaticians to access HMIS records on a number of indicators as per the results framework.

• Responsible for the preparation of a Performance Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan, with appropriate indicators and an effective data collection system.

• Oversee data collection to ensure data quality standards are applied and procedures are in place, data analysis, reporting on actual achievements in light of set targets, highlighting emerging patterns and offering clear reports on findings and conclusions.

• Supervise the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, use scientific methods to ensure high quality of data, and design a reporting system that provides insights to decision makers on grant program performance and areas that need management’s attention.

• Ensures that all information required for submission to donor is collected and submitted in a valid, reliable and timely manner.

• Leads in the development of impact indicators and data collection which properly represents the impact of grants.

• Analyzes data collected and synthesizes research findings into succinct reporting for use by both the STF partners and the relevant stakeholders.

• Work with data platforms, database, and select technologies to capture and organize data.

Donor Reporting;

• Maintain reporting schedules, communicate upcoming deadlines to all staff, partners (where applicable) and coordinate programme report preparation processes.

• Ensure donor compliance during reporting in terms of donor templates and deadlines.

• Review reports and ensure that high quality reports are submitted to the donor as per requirements of the fund summary and reporting deadlines.

• Perform regular field visits to ensure the quality of data is collected by project staff and to verify the accuracy of the data reported.

• Participate in key donor meetings where necessary to foster long term collaboration and engagement.

Donor Compliance;

• Deal on MEAL donor compliance reviews and training for all STF staff and Partners with donor support as necessary.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Staff Safety and Security

• Work with the relevant officers to ensure that the staff and assets under STF are safe and secure.

Advocacy:

• Ensuring that the STF programmes experience is represented and given recognition at all levels in meetings, workshops and in other forums.