MEAL Officer

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

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Job Description:

The MEAL Officer will play a key role in supporting the Philippines South Mindanao Earthquake Response by enhancing the efficiency and accountability of both processes and outputs. This includes working closely with Programmes team to ensure that accountability standards with communities and donors are met. The role also involves collaborating with the Operations team to analyze assessment findings, maintaining a centralized and reliable information management system that serves as the primary source for all response-related data, and coordinating with the Public Engagement and Field and Emergency Communications to provide timely and accurate information for both internal and external communications.

This is a fixed post for two months based in Polomolok and covering areas in General Santos and Sarangani.

Major Responsibilities:

• Ensure hard copies of relevant Response documents are organized, properly labelled and secured, and digital copies are available and organized – uploaded in a temporary information management space in either Sharepoint or Microsoft Teams.
• In coordination with Response Management and the Operations Lead, plan and analyze damage and needs assessment results to inform program designing by the Grants Acquisition and Management.
• Maintain an updated field report where Response activities are documented which can be used by the Response Manager to provide updates on daily accomplishments, action plan over the next few days, and other challenges that need to be addressed.
• Meet the Response information needs of the Public Engagement function and Field and Emergency Communications team for external sharing such as but not limited to the creation of Situational Reports and proper captioning of photos.
• Ensure all feedback received by the Response team are logged and tracked until resolution in the Community Feedback Registry, and be prepared to address any information needs of the community.
• Ensure that the Operations function establish complaint and feedback mechanisms in the operational areas using context-appropriate mechanisms.
• Conduct Post Distribution Monitoring and Feedbacking sessions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Business Studies/Management, Social Sciences or other related fields.
• Knowledge in MEAL systems and frameworks, Data collection, processing, and analysis, accountability and feedback mechanisms.
• Good physical and health condition.

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