TITLE: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator, SCI Zambia TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Development & Quality LOCATION: Mongu GRADE : 3 CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year Safeguarding : Save the Children does not tolerate any form of exploitation, abuse, or harassment against any person. It is the responsibility of all employees and representatives to protect all people who come in contact with our organization. Save the Children commits to applying the same standards to all its employees and subject them to the same processes regardless of their position, influence, or reputation within or outside of the organization. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Save the Children International’s Diversity Policy, aims to promote equal opportunity in employment and to ban any kind of discrimination based on sex, age, social class, disability, HIV status, religion, race and ethnicity. ROLE PURPOSE: The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator will support the strengthening of the organizational capacity to design and implement effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning systems. The MEAL Coordinator will work closely with Technical Specialists, Project Managers, MEAL staff within SCI and other MEAL staff from implementing partners. SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Project Manager with dotted line to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Manager Staff reporting to this post: Role Dimensions : Context: Development and Development-Humanitarian Nexus Primary Technical area: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Programme Design: Support the MEAL Manager in the preparation of frameworks such as logical models, log frames, result frameworks and Performance Measurement Plans (PMPs). Defining objectives, collection of survey data and establishment of targets and ensure that monitoring and evaluation components are well integrated in the implementation plans of new projects. Assist in developing a unified monitoring system and reporting mechanisms for partner NGOs. Support provincial teams use participatory approaches in designing, implementing and managing accountability mechanisms by introducing such systems that facilitate beneficiaries to register timely complaints and give them access to share their feedback on SCI interventions. In collaboration with project/programme staff conduct and facilitate situation analysis, develop monitoring systems for the project and carry out monitoring visits. Support fundraising, including contributing to proposal writing and review to ensure Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) activities and costs are adequately covered. Develop standard guidance for incorporation of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) costs into proposals in specific responses. Capacity Building: Provide orientation/training to MEAL/program field officers from time to time as required Identify capacity building events for MEAL staff members for system strengthening and sharing of learning; Provide guidance and build capacity, where required of the relevant staff of partners in monitoring and evaluation/ research and documentation; Organize learning events and workshops for program units to document lessons learnt, good practices and areas of improvement; Technical Oversight: Provide technical support to Field MEAL officers to implement MEAL systems at province level including collating, compiling, analysing program learning and subsequent reporting on all SCI development and emergency response interventions. Technically backstop other MEAL team members in prioritizing monitoring visits, generating monitoring reports, conducting debrief sessions and developing action plans for program improvement; Support MEAL Manager in implementation of Complaint Response Mechanism (CRM) in the field. Responsible for MEAL coordination, capacity building and technical oversight for projects in the Western Province of Zambia (SUNII, GPE, IECCDE and any new projects arising); Provide direct line management responsibilities for MEAL Officers from the projects listed as follows: SUNII, GPE/IECCDE and any other MEAL Officers appointed to projects in Western or otherwise assigned. This will include performance management (setting objectives, assessing performance, and providing coaching, mentoring, and training that aligns with SCI’s Global MEAL Capacity Building Strategic Work-plan); Will have dotted line management of MEAL focal points within projects where no MEAL Officer exists. Undertake frequent field visits for backstopping of technical MEAL teams. Support MEAL Zambia team on administrative tasks for the MEAL teams Accountability Mechanisms: Receive accountability data from field, analyse it and share it with MEAL Manager. Compile and analyse data on monthly basis and share it with program teams at various levels. Ensure that MEAL is infused in all of SCI development response inte...