ABOUT RI:

Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in roughly 20 countries to relieve poverty, ensure the well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and chronic poverty. Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach —, which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design, and implement the solutions that work best for them.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Roving MEAL Manager is responsible to lead and support the MEAL activities in North Darfur and the Blue Nile States and possibly, in other states RI intends to expand operations. The Roving MEAL Manager will be responsible for the data verification, monitoring visits to the sites, assessments, accountability to the community’s activities, and documentation of relevant data to internal Box Folder.

Supervision: The Roving MEAL Manager will work under the technical supervision of the MEAL Coordinator and managerial supervision of the Area Manager (s). This arrangement may change in case of any change in country strategy and staffing structure.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: 

The Roving MEAL Manager is responsible to provide MEAL support to North Darfur and Blue Nile States. Key responsibilities of the Roving MEAL Manger include:

     Monitoring and documentation:

• Ensure RI and partner health facilities are compliant to standard data recording and reporting procedures including proper use of SMoH registration books, and other forms and templates as provided by RI technical and MEAL team.
• Ensures data quality through regular supportive visits to RI and partners’ health facilities. The Roving MEAL Manager will provide on job training to health facility staff to ensure compliance to minimum data management standards
• Review and provide timely feedback to HIS and CMAM Data Officers for required data adjustment; and conduct a follow up monitoring visit to facilities and sites to resolve discrepancies in information and obtain further information for incomplete document
• Monthly review of HIS, CMAM, and training reports received from sectors
• Conduct monthly data verification visit to sites. Following each visit, the Roving MEAL Manager will be responsible to compile and submit data verification report to MEAL Coordinator, Sectors Coordinators, and Area Manager following each site visit. The Manager will also be responsible to do a follow up and ensure concerns identified with the data are addressed on timely manner.
• The Roving MEAL Manager share consolidated data to health facility staff
• Update IPTT and share with MEAL Coordinator for final review
• Create timely data backups in RI-MEAL Sudan Box Folder – IPTTs, HIS, CMAM, LogAlto data, training reports, monitoring visit reports, project photos, accountability log sheets etc.…
• Work closely with the HIS Officer and CMAM Data Officer to ensure copy of monthly facility reports are archived through well maintained folders
• Lead and facilitate regular monitoring visits to RI and Partner’s facilities (use RI standard monitoring checklist as agreed by MEAL and Sectors). Prepare and share monitoring reports with relevant staff following monitoring visits.
• Coordinate and facilitate performance evaluation, baseline, mid-term evaluation, joint monitoring etc.
• Identification and documentation of success stories, achievements, lesson learned and document recommendations to be integrated into broader knowledge management
• Support sectors in monthly data entry upon request
• Facilitate government and donor monitoring visits

     Accountability to community:

The Roving MEAL Manager will be responsible to ensure the following specific tasks related to Accountability are achieved in both North Darfur and Blue Nile States to expected standard:

• Conduct accountability to community activities including managing feedback and complaints channel (hotline calls, suggestion boxes, and coordinate monthly community dialogue sessions)
• Conduct regular community awareness session on feedback and complaint mechanisms
• Weekly update of community feedback and complaint log-sheet and proper file of documents in Box- Accountability folder
• Track and ensure response to received feedback and complaint
• Consolidate and share monthly community dialogue reports to MEAL Coordinator for review
• Consolidate and share feedback and complaints report to MEAL Coordinator
• Build capacity of staff, partner, and community on community feedback and complaints channels
• Prepare and document accountability success stories, and other best practices
• Provide support to program and other departments on MEAL related requests
• Any other tasks as required