Reporting to the Regional Manager MEAL ( Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability ), the Colombian MEAL Manager is responsible for guaranteeing the proper implementation of monitoring systems, evaluation, accountability, learning and information management in projects in Colombia. He or she is the direct supervisor of the MEAL and Information Management teams in Colombia.
Missions and Responsibilities:
Mission 1: Management
• Manager as a role model: personifies HI values on a daily basis.
• Manager as a direction coach: he understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his team, leads the necessary changes and gives meaning to each management action. It encourages the exchange of practices between departments. It stimulates innovation and risk taking.
• Operational manager: organizes the operational management of your team, structures work around identified processes, monitors performance and facilitates problem solving.
• Human Resources Manager and Coach: contributes to the development of its staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism and attachment to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct, institutional policies, mood, and expected individual and collective behavior.
Mission 2: Strategy and Direction
• Contributes to defining the MEAL action plan (Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability) and Information Management, implements this action plan and then supervises it in close collaboration with the Regional MEAL Manager and the project managers.
• Ensures the implementation of monitoring systems, data collection, information management, evaluation, accountability to affected populations, learning and knowledge management that adapt to the intervention context and allow compliance with HI standards.
• Send the Regional MEAL Manager any information or difficulties that may help improve these systems.
• Contributes to promoting the performance of the MEAL department.
• Participates in strengthening partners’ MEAL / IM skills.
Mission 3: Operational Implementation
Responsibility 1: Supports project managers and partners in the implementation of the minimum project management processes described in the PME policy and guidelines (Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation).
• Train and accompany project managers in PME guidelines and methodology, as well as in their application in the program.
• Ensures proper planning and implementation of essential project management processes in each project.
Responsibility 2: It is responsible for establishing systems for monitoring results and guaranteeing compliance with the methodological standards that must be followed when conducting surveys.
• Ensures and prepares monitoring plans and regular monitoring of project indicators. • Provides technical support to project managers and partners, and trains project teams and pollsters in monitoring and survey methods. In particular, it supports the design of questionnaires and survey protocols.
• Depending on needs and monitoring plans, contributes to certain surveys or follow-up activities through supervision or direct execution.
Responsibility 3: ( If there is no Database Officer ), you are responsible for implementing the data management systems defined at the program level.
• Develop databases as needed and ensure data recording and processing for implemented surveys.
• Contributes to the collection of needs for data analysis and the creation of control panels (dashboards).
• Ensures access to relevant internal and external operational information for all personnel.
Responsibility 4: It is responsible for ensuring compliance with the HI standards applicable to project evaluations.
• Ensures that evaluation activities are carried out, including annual self-evaluations and monitoring of internal evaluations.
• Ensures feedback sessions on evaluation findings with beneficiaries and other project stakeholders.
Responsibility 5: It is responsible for applying the mechanisms defined by the Regional MEAL Manager to provide accountability to affected populations.
• Define the mechanisms of accountability to the population and is responsible for facilitating these mechanisms.
• Provides periodic feedback to the Regional MEAL Manager on the accountability mechanisms implemented to allow continuous improvement of interventions
Responsibility 6: Contributes to the learning and continuous improvement of HI interventions.
• It is responsible for implementing processes and methods for the collection, analysis, modeling and management of the knowledge produced, in accordance with the frameworks defined by the Regional MEAL Manager.
• Contributes to the analysis of the information collected and the knowledge produced to strengthen collective learning.
• Ensures the exchange of knowledge produced internally in the program and more broadly at the organization level through the use of the HI Library.
Responsibility 7: Contributes to external representation and promotion of HI’s MEAL experience.
• Represents the experience of HEAL MEAL and Information Management in all relevant networks in Colombia.
Mission 4: Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Contributes to the emergency preparedness actions of the program and, in the event of an emergency, adapts its working methods to contribute to an effective humanitarian approach by HI.
Competences:
Management skills:
• Be able to help your team members progress: develop your staff’s ability to work autonomously.
• Know how to position yourself so that things move forward
• Know how to simplify and prioritize
Language skills:
• English B2
CONDITIONS Duration: 1 year Type of contract: Fixed term Base: HI Office in Bogotá with trips to HI intervention departments
How to apply
Nominations are expected until January 21, 2024, any subsequent applications will not be considered. To apply for your application, you must send a resume and a motivation letter to the following address: calls@colombia.hi.org; indicate in the subject of the message: REAL MANAGER COLOMBIA, If you already belong to our HI team, you can participate by sending your resume to the email: j.morales@hi.org
Important: All work applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality. HI, being an organization that promotes the labor inclusion of people with disabilities, encourages this group of people to apply for this position. If you want to request reasonable accommodations during the application process, send an email to the email calls@colombia.hi.org indicating in subject “ Reasonable Adaptations ” and our selection team will contact you to provide reasonable adaptations to the application. Only people selected for technical testing and interview will be contacted
