Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) is a national-level NGO dedicated to women’s human rights and empowerment through the protection and promotion of human rights and social justice. We focus on campaigns against violence against women and advocate for women’s economic, social, and cultural rights nationwide. Our offices are located across multiple districts, including Morang, Sunsari, Udayapur, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Sarlahi, Dang, Kailali, Rukum, Rupandehi, Kapilvastu, Kanchanpur, Jagarkot, Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Kavrepalanchok, and Saptari, with the Central Office in Lalitpur.
Position Title: MEAL Coordinator
Duty Station: Central Office, Lalitpur, with frequent field visits
Job Summary:
The MEAL Coordinator will work under direct supervision from the Executive Director and in close coordination with the Program Manager. S/He will work with support from all the District Coordinators, Program Officers, Program Coordinators, and Documentation Officer. She/He will lead and guide support in data collection, analysis, and track activities implementation, achievements, learnings, and good practices to help ensure accountability and efficiency from start to end of all programs and projects. The MEAL coordinator should have an understanding of unequal gender and power relations and should have the skills to track power shifts through projects and overall organizational interventions.
Specific Responsibilities
- The MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for developing and implementing a Results-Based MEAL System. For this, she/he will work in coordination with relevant program and research team members to design formats, tools, and formal M&E guidelines per project for data collection and documentation. S/he will provide project-related insights to the Central and District-level staff regarding the projects and WOREC’s outreach (CBOs, PNGOs, Community groups, etc.).
- Formulate organization’s MEAL action plans in alignment with the strategic document.
- S/He should ensure that every plan is comprehended and executed correctly by the organizational team members.
- Undertake and provide MEAL capacity building, technical support, and training to the program team, along with partner organizations.
- Adopt a feminist lens in the process of collecting and analyzing the data and harvesting the achievements and learnings.
- Develop the learning documents that challenge unequal gender and power relations and encourage the formulation of approaches to bring about transformative change.
- Ensure that the project activities and outcomes are aligned with the organizational strategic plan.
- Coordinate with relevant internal and external stakeholders, prepare and update formal guidelines, technical tools, and standards for MEAL activities, and promote the M&E process in line with the organization’s norms and standards.
- Monitor target vs. achievement of planned activities and budget vs. expenses monthly. Assess the implementation status, achievements, outcomes, and impacts of projects against their log frames.
- Support documentation, record-keeping, and reporting of achievements based on the log frames of projects.
- Analyze case studies, success stories, and case documentation with support from the Database and Documentation Unit.
- Validate, analyze, and utilize data to recommend corrective measures for project and program improvement.
- Develop and review mid-term and annual progress MEAL reports, and support data validation in narrative reports.
- Plan periodic field visits to capture and record success stories, good practices, achievements, and impacts of campaigns/programs/projects, along with cross-verification of data from the field.
- Contribute to campaigns as required and attend relevant internal and external meetings, workshops, and discussion forums organized by the organization, partners, and donors.
Organizational Values:
- Accountability: Taking ownership of actions and advocating for accountability.
- Intersectionality: Addressing multiple forms of discrimination and oppression.
- Empowerment: Facilitating empowerment of women, girls, and marginalized communities.
- Social Justice: Challenging systems of power and privilege for a more equitable society.
- Inclusiveness: Valuing diversity and individual contributions.
Applying Procedures:
WOREC encourages applications from women, Dalit/Janajati, and sexual minority candidates.
Qualified candidates may send a cover letter detailing their experience and motivation for the position, along with an updated CV, to vacancy@worecnepal.org by 4th June, 2024.
Applications without a cover letter and CV will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for a written test and interview. No telephone inquiries will be entertained.
For details, visit WOREC Career Page.