Introduction

The Danish Refugee Council assists refugees and internally displaced persons across the globe: we provide emergency aid, fight for their rights, and strengthen their opportunity for a brighter future. We work in conflictaffected areas, along the displacement routes, and in the countries where refugees settle. In cooperation with local communities, we strive for responsible and sustainable solutions. We work toward successful integration and – whenever possible – for the fulfillment of the wish to return home.

The Danish Refugee Council was founded in Denmark in 1956 and has since grown to become an international humanitarian organization with more than 7,000 staff and 8,000 volunteers. Based in Copenhagen (Denmarand present in forty countries, the Danish Refugee Council is a nonprofitmaking, politically independent, nongovernmental and nondenominational relief organization.

Our vision is a dignified life for all displaced. All our efforts are based on our value compass: humanity, respect, independence and neutrality, participation, and honesty and transparency.

Background

Danish Refugee Council (DRhas had an operational presence in Nigeria since DRC Nigeria is the largest DRC country mission in the West Africa region and one of the largest DRC country missions globally. Currently, DRC delivers lifesaving assistance and protection to vulnerable, conflictaffected populations including internally displaced persons, returnees, and host communities in the areas of armed violence reduction, humanitarian mine action, livelihoods, nutrition and food security, protection, shelter, and nonfood items (NFand water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASin 30+ Local Government Areas (LGAacross Borno, Adamawa and states in northeast Nigeria and Sokoto and Zamfara states in Northwest Nigeria.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consortium MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for MEAL systems development and implementation for the DRC led BHA Consortium, ensuring consistent use of MEAL approaches, data management, client responsiveness, data quality and facilitate learning across teams and consortium partners. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring overall coherence of monitoring and reporting tools, and coordination of data compilation from all consortium members. He/she will have a strong working relationship with the DRC MEAL team as well as the consortium team for additional technical support. The role requires extensive MEAL experience and good understanding of organizational MEAL approaches and understanding of working in a consortium led project. As a member of the Consortium Management Unit, the Consortium MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring MEAL Working Group meetings take place with partners and will provide targeted support and capacity building as required

The main responsibilities and tasks of the Consortium MEAL Coordinator.

Responsibilities:

System Design and Promoting MEAL:

• Develop the overall BHA program MEAL Plan in alignment with BHA MEAL guidelines.
• Lead implementation and reporting based on the MEAL Plan, including accountability, community engagement and participation, learning, PDM, course adaptation and endline/evaluation.
• Build strong relationships with all consortium partners, including providing tools, expertise and other support to ensure that the MEAL Plan is understood and delivered with high quality and reliability.

Monitoring:

• Establish the overall program Indicator Tracking Table (ITbased on the BHA indicator definitions and lead roll out to all consortium partners to ensure a consistent approach;
• Regularly monitor the ITT reporting, tracking and progress to ensure timely and quality inputs; as well as provide analysis to the for PIU Management for discussion and action with Consortium Partners and the Consortium Steering Committee, as needed.
• Use process level monitoring to undertake field monitoring visits, focusing on program quality aspects, discuss with relevant staff and share reports with relevant colleagues.
• Support Consortium MEAL staff in PDM activities, ensuring that tools and processes are consistent to allow collation of data for program monitoring, learning, coursecorrection and improvement in collaboration with the PIU team.
• Perform regular field visits to ensure the quality of data collected by program staff and to verify the accuracy of reported data.
• Lead and coordinate with partners the donor Third Party Monitoring process

Baselines, Endlines, Evaluations, dissemination, and learning:

• Provide technical leadership and coordination for program evaluations, baseline and endline assessments in collaboration with consortium partner organizations.
• Work via the PMU to support consortium partners to conduct periodic Lessons Learned workshops and implement a systematic way of documenting and disseminating lessons learned such as developing lessons learnt trackers to help increase program level knowledge and improve future interventions.
• In consultation with the Chief of party, coordinate and technically supervise consultants who are hired to deliver some components in the Consortium MEAL framework.

Support accountability systems to facilitate stakeholder feedback and participation:

• Coordinate with consortium partners to ensure effective feedback and response mechanisms are in place to support accountability to affected children, adult and communities in alignment with BHA guidelines.
• Coordinate and support MEAL team from consortium partners for all required reporting and develop tools and that consolidate consortiumwide data to ensure donor requirements are met at programme level..

Planning and Reporting:

• Provide support to consortium partners in preparation and reviewing of program plans and program reports, ensuring that program reports meet DRC and donor reporting standards;
• Coordinate and develop the delivery of all MEAL aspects of donor reporting, including monthly, semiannual and annual reporting.
• Consolidate, analyze and interpret all consortiumwide data, and develop evidencebased data.
• Communicate the evidencebased data for program improvement

Capacity building:

• Provide formal and adhoc capacitybuilding support to the consortium MEAL and program staff, as needed, based on knowledge gaps and needs identified during the delivery of MEAL activities and/or on request of consortium partners, where possible.

Perform any other duties as directed by the Chief of Party

Qualifications

Application Process

Are you interested? Then apply for this position on line: www.drc.dk/aboutdrc/vacancies/currentvacancies. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four page. Both must be in English.

DRC provides equal opportunity in employment and prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

DRC encourages all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.

However, all applicants shall take into consideration that DRC cannot offer an international work contract to a citizen of the country of assignment (in this specific case, Nigeri

Applications close on 25th October 2024 at midnight (GMTtim. Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

Due to the urgency of the position, DRC has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.