Senior MEAL Officer

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is looking for a qualified Vietnamese candidate to join our Country Program. Job

Title:                            Senior MEAL Officer

Location:                      Hanoi

Salary grade:                8

Reports To:                  MEAL Manager

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Job Summary:

As key role within the MEAL team, senior MEAL officer will facilitate the achievement of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) objectives for specific project(s) or programming area(s) within the Vietnam Country Program (CP), contributing to serving the poor and vulnerable. Senior MEAL officer will coordinate and lead activities, as well as provide technical advice related to ensuring quality principles, standards, and MEAL policies, procedures and practices are applied within projects. His/her coordination and relationship management skills will ensure that the project for which you are responsible applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Organize and lead the implementation of all assigned MEAL activities as outlined in the detailed implementation plan in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Ensure learning properly accompanies project MEAL activities throughout the project cycle. Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and guiding partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences. Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules.
• Supervise and perform ad-hoc inspections of various MEAL processes and products within the project to ensure timely MEAL implementation and adherence to established MEAL policy and process standards and procedures.
• Support and coordinate MEAL capacity building and technical support activities to CRS staff and partners.
• Ensure planning for and quality of MEAL processes including project monitoring (data collection, data entry, data cleaning and reporting), evaluation, accountability and learning.
• Ensure project documentation for assigned MEAL activities is complete with all required documents and is filed per agency and donor requirements. Assist with preparation of trends analysis reports and documentation of case studies and promising practices

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required. Degree in Social Science or in the field of MEAL would be a plus.
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in project support, ideally in the field of MEAL and for an NGO and USAID funded projects.
• Additional experience may substitute for some education.
  

Required Languages - Fluency in Vietnamese and strong English (speaking, reading and writing) required.

Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 40%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Analysis and problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment
• Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners
• Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented
• Attention to details, accuracy and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities
• Demonstrated skills and knowledge in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and interpretation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with partners, participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Staff supervision experience a plus.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Proficiency with statistical packages such as CommCare, Power BI, Stata, etc a plus.

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff)

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Integrity
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation
• Builds Relationships
• Develops Talent
• Strategic Mindset
• Accountability & Stewardship

MEAL Competencies (for CRS MEAL Program Staff)

Each staff member in this position is expected to have solid knowledge and ability and can apply the following competencies with minimal or no guidance, in the full range of typical situations, while requiring guidance to handle novel or more complex situations

• Monitoring
• Accountability
• Evaluation
• Learning
• Analysis and Critical Thinking

Supervisory Responsibilities (if none, state none): None

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Project, Finance, Procurement and HR teams as relevant to project, Program managers

External: Donor and partner organizations