People in Need is hiring a MEAL Assistant/Officer

The MEAL Assistant supports monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) activities by conducting field and phone interviews, site visits, focus group discussions, and other data collection tasks. Additionally, they assist in organizing and managing the Community Feedback and Response Mechanism (CFRM) and work closely with the MEAL team and project stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of MEAL activities.

The MEAL Officer is responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing the MEAL system for specific projects or sectors, ensuring accurate data collection and analysis. They prepare high-quality reports, track project progress, and handle feedback and complaints from beneficiaries, while working closely with project managers and stakeholders to ensure the continuous improvement of program activities.

Organization - People in Need

Job Title - MEAL Assistant/Officer 

Duty station - Chisinau/Bălți/Comrat, Moldova

Salary range – 12.920,00 - 24.960,00 MDL gross

Based on the assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities and previous experience.

Application Deadline – November 22, 2024, by COB.

Education & Work Experience

Qualification:

- Degree in social studies (e.g. sociology, statistics)/related fields or track record of relevant experience, including research experience and skills: designing a research, designing data collection tools, coordinating a research, and doing the actual data collection (quantitative, e.g. surveys and qualitative, e.g. various types of interviews or focus group discussion, etc.) in the field as well as analyzing data using various methods and tools.

- Analytical skills, experience and ability in analysing and presenting data, but also reflective thinking, and being able to understand the stories behind the data.

- Report writing skills, being able to explain the insights, document field observations and information obtained through quantitative and qualitative methods and provide feedback to programme/project teams through clear reporting.

- Stakeholders engagement, communication skills and team work, ability to engage, manage and deal with different internal (team members from other departments, e.g. programme/project staff, logistics, finance, etc.) and external stakeholders, including different type of beneficiaries (individuals, representatives of other I/NGOs), representatives of different level authorities, civil society organizations and donors utilizing both written and oral communication skills.

- Technology and software related skills, ability to utilize computer packages and applications in data collection, data analysis, storage and dissemination.

- Availability, including ability to undertake regular field visits all over Moldova, if needed, few days in a row with overnight stays in different locations of Moldova.

- Experience in M&E activities is an advantage

- Experience in the NGO/INGO field with a focus on civil society development or emergency programs is an advantage.

- Experience in building capacity of other team members or teams and/or colleagues of other NGOs/INGOs is an advantage;

- languages – English/Romanian/Russian - Fluent in all aspects

Type of contract - Employment contract; Full-time work

Expected Duration of Assignment - 15/11/2024 - 30/09/2025

For more information please visit our official website: https://moldova.peopleinneed.net/mo/implica-te/meal-assistant-officer-2263jo

The applicants will be invited for interviews on a rolling basis. The application process might be stopped earlier if a suitable candidate is identified before the application deadline.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview. No phone calls or inquiries are allowed.

People in Need is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct and committed to promoting the welfare of children and adults with whom People in Need engages /is in contact with. People in Need expects all staff to perform job duties and responsibilities in accordance with People in Need code of conduct and key policies (available at: https://www.peopleinneed.net/key-policies-4142gp). People in Need Staff will undertake the appropriate level of training.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks.

We are committed to ensuring diversity (people from different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations etc.) within our organization and encourage interested candidates to apply.

By sending their CV and other documents to the aforementioned link the candidate implicitly consents to their personal data appearing in the CV and such other documents being held and processed by PIN exclusively with the view to analyzing the candidate’s suitability for the position and keeping such data in our files for a reasonable period of time in accordance with the PIN's Data Protection Policy. The candidate can revoke such consent anytime by sending an according notice. Kindly refrain from including any special personal data, whose processing, as per applicable law, requires the express written consent of the subject of such data.