Regional MEAL Manager - East Africa Regional Division

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of relevant professional experience in the MEAL sector
  
• You have strong experiences in team management, capacity building, training and coaching: enable leadership, staff development and operational goal achievement,
  
• You are excellent in results and indicators monitoring, in project evaluation
  
• You are excellent in Information management strategy, data structuring and data quality, quantitative and qualitative data collection, qualitative analysis          
  
• You have good capacity of planning and coordination of qualitative and quantitative surveys, dissemination of findings. On implementing accountability to populations systems: participatory, non-discriminatory and responsible approaches
  
• You are able to handle conflicts, you have strong interpersonal and intercultural skills, with good communication and negotiation skills
  
• Excellent command of English is mandatory, knowledge of French is a strong asset
  

Management

• Lives HI’s values in everyday work and acts as a role model. Promotes inclusion, accountability and safeguarding, and consistently demonstrates ethical behaviour.
  

• Understands HI’s strategy, explains it clearly to the team, translates it into concrete MEAL objectives, and leads the changes needed to achieve them.
  

• Organises and oversees the team’s work, structures tasks and processes, monitors performance, and supports problem-solving. Sets annual individual objectives and conducts appraisals.
  

Strategy and steering

• Defines the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool:
  

• Helps with the development of the operational strategy (StratOp) in line with HI strategy, StraTechs and Development plans (notably 3I and Emergency), including the development of the StratOp monitoring tool; 
  

• Defines and oversees the regional and country declined MEAL action plan. Adjust based on results.
  

Standards and expertise

• Designs the program's MEAL and IM systems and monitors their implementation and quality:
  

• Is responsible for defining systems for monitoring, data collection, information management, evaluation, accountability to populations, learning and knowledge management that are adapted to the context of intervention and ensure compliance with HI standards;
  

• Ensures that the systems put in place on the various projects are consistent with each other and with HI's frameworks and standards and enable the consolidation of information for use in the region’s global management.
  

Operational implementation

• Contributes towards improving HI's response within East Africa Division:
  

• Is responsible for the implementation of tools for measuring outcomes and impact that facilitate decision-making, learning and accountability;  
  

• Is responsible for putting in place a system for ensuring accountability towards populations.