ABOUT RI:

Relief International is a leading nonprofit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure 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.

Background:

The M&E Officer will provide support to Relief International (RI), site office, focusing on all aspects of health and nutrition data capture, storage, and analysis with full technical management to ensure effective /quality reporting and communication.

 To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.            

 Duties and responsibilities:

Scope of Work: 

Responsible for adopting and maintenance of health and nutrition data collection tools, accurate health and nutrition data collection, compilation, analysis and storage, reporting, and communication.

To conduct regular and frequent field visits using relevant supervision tools and provide technical support to the RI field staff, HFs (Health Facilities), and local partner organizations on quality data collection, storage, and reporting.

To liaise and communicate with site management to maintain and improve the filing system for all RI projects.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and make available to field sites all data collection tools/formats and ensure that all project sites utilize uniform forms for data collection in a consistent manner.
• Ensure that timely and complete weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and other health reports are submitted by the HFs (weekly basis), or any delegated field staff to the Site office and then to the Khartoum office on monthly basis.
• Conduct regular and frequent field visits to the targeted clinics giving required technical support to the RI field-based staff, HF staff, and community volunteers.
• Verify the accuracy and consistency of the data collected from various field sites for all activities.
• Collect/compile the health and nutrition data as morbidities, mortalities, referral, maternal and child health (MCH), community health activities, and nutrition activities and submit it in a timely manner to the medical coordinator for his or her review before submitting it to the MEAL Unit.
• Ensure that analyzed key health data such as on morbidities, mortality and MCH is updated and displayed in all RI supported health facilities and in RI offices based on the agreed formats
• Safely keep soft and hard copies of records of all health and nutrition information for weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual data.
• Closely monitor the health and nutrition data reporting procedure and immediately report any irregularities to the medical coordinator and MEAL Coordinator/MEAL Manager 
• In consultation with the medical and MEAL Coordinator/ MEAL Manager, make sure that the data needs for SMOH are identified and developed to be submitted. 
• Manage and update the IMC site data base; share important information related to the HIS databases with all relevant staff as required.
• Provide on job training and support to clinics and local partners NNGO on how to correctly use data collection forms.
• Provide guidance to clinics and local NNGO on reporting and data quality (field’s data quality checks)
• Conduct time to time visits to the clinics, local NNGO and targeted community to ensure the validity and the general quality of reports and data
• Encourage positive communication and collaboration among agencies
• Maintain and make available to field sites all data collection tools/formats and ensure that all clinics utilize uniform forms for data collection in a consistent manner.
• Data entry to the IMC databases and Compile all program data & send to MEAL Coordinator / MEAL Manager on monthly bases
• Conduct monthly, quarterly, and annual data analysis with the program team at the site level.
• Receiving And reviewing weekly data from the clinics and monthly reports from local partners
• Ensure timely data entry of all project data from Local Partners and other program implementers
• Maintain data backup and archival procedures.
• Assist in assessment and surveys as requested by the site team
• Participate in all issues related to MEAL, and data management as directed by supervisors
• Ensuring accountability through supporting the site team (Medical Coordinator and project/nutrition/wash officers) to ensure the health facility staff, local partner NNGO and community volunteers have a clear understanding of promoting and encouraging beneficiaries to make confidential suggestions and complaints on services provided. 
• Ensure that all data collected via the Communities feedback mechanisms have been reported to the M&E Coordinator / MEAL Manager on time.
• Support site team and committees in monitoring and documentation of community (beneficiary) complaints received and response (follow-up) as instructed by the supervisors.
• Ensuring that all clinics, partner NGOs, and other implementation points have and are using the feedback Mechanisms through routine supportive supervision visits
• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries se
• Implement any task and duty requested by his direct/ indirect supervisor I acknowledge having read and understood the duties and activities listed above and agree with them. I understand this job description is submitted for periodic revision to possibly include new duties.]
• Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field, Social sciences, information Management system. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Minimum of 2-3 years of work experience in the field of MEAL / Program Management. Work years of relevant and progressive experience in MEAL.

Good Skills in English and Arabic Languages speaking, reading and writing.