Graduate MEAL Intern (Harare based) – Catholic Relief Services 686 views

Job Summary

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States of America. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard of race, religion, or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. Registered in Zimbabwe under the PVO Act, certificate number 6/2002, CRS has been supporting program activities in Zimbabwe since 1989 and has long-standing relationships with Church and non-Church partners and communities throughout the country. Zimbabwe program implements projects through 14 partner organizations in 30 districts in the areas of health, OVC, education, food security and agricultural livelihoods, and peacebuilding.

The successful candidate will assist the MEAL unit to implement the various CP
projects in accordance with the CRS MEAL Policies and Procedures as well as
MEAL in COVI19 Guidance. S/he will participate in data collection activities as
required, periodically monitoring project activities, conducting data entry, analysis,
and data verification. S/he will assist in manning Country Program accountability
mechanisms and directing complaints and feedback from callers to relevant
personnel.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists in the development and refining of project data collection tools and identifying strengths and weaknesses in existing data collection and management systems as well as proposing solutions.
  • Collects quality data using MEAL tools on a timely basis.
  • Works with field data enumerators and assisting with simple data analysis.
  • Assists with the management and refinement of projects’ MEAL systems.
  • Undertakes periodic and timely field monitoring visits to ensure quality of submitted data and verifying the accuracy of the data.
  • Supports MEAL staff in undertaking any project related assessments, baselines and or evaluations.
  • Supports projects’ staff in the compilation of project reports.
  • Assists in the review of partner reports & ensuring that they meet CRS standards.
  • Assists project teams in the establishment and maintenance of accountability
  mechanisms.
  • Assists projects in enhancing learning at project level as well as at Country Program level.
  • Documents lessons learned and best practices as well as success stories of the
  different project sectors that can be implemented and or scaled up in future business
  development opportunities.

Qualifications And Experience

• BSc degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Statistics or any related
  program.
  • Certificate or Course in social science research methods, relevant to monitoring
  and evaluation, both quantitative and qualitative will be an added advantage.
  • At least 1 year working experience in monitoring, evaluation, or related
  environment.
  • Demonstrable understanding of monitoring and evaluation principles and practices.
  • Knowledge of SPSS, Stata and other data entry and analysis packages.
  • Ability to speak both Shona and Ndebele required.
  • Ability to travel to project implementation areas on a frequent basis as project
  demands.