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­­­­­VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Community Partners International (CPI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities in Asia to meet their essential health, humanitarian and development needs. Founded by U.S. doctors in 1998, the organization has grown to serve more than one million people each year. Community Partners International focuses on helping communities affected by conflict, violence, and displacement, in remote and hard-to-reach contexts, and marginalized by poverty and exclusion.

CPI is currently seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Manager. The Senior MEAL Manager will oversee MEAL activities in order to generate robust evidence as part of the project’s adaptive management systems, including assessments/surveys and routine data collection of project indicators; cross-learning across consortium partners; accountability to beneficiaries, donors, and other stakeholders; document retention; capacity strengthening of project staff and local implementing partners; compliance with donor MEAL requirements; and reporting of MEAL data to the donor.

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, implementation, and routine updates of the project’s MEAL tools, approaches, frameworks, and databases, including (but not limited to) the Theory of Change and narrative, log frame, and MEAL plan.

• Ensure application of standardized MEAL tools and approaches across the project’s partners and activities in line with the donor’s MEAL requirements and the project’s MEAL plan.

• Provide technical review and support across all MEAL components of the project.

• Support the Strategic Information Lead by coordinating with MEAL focal across all project partners to compile all required MEAL data for donor reporting, in order to ensure timely and accurate submissions to the donor as per the agreed-upon reporting schedules

• Support routine monitoring of the progress of project implementation by conducting monitoring visits, data quality audits, and review of implementation reports.

• Lead the organizational capacity assessment related to MEAL of project partners and local implementing partners

• Strengthen the capacity of project staff, consortium partners, and local implementing partners (ethnic service providers, CSOs) in the collection and analysis of routine project data, data management, and data quality control measures.

• Contribute to project-wide assessments and surveys including baseline, midline, and endline evaluations, including recruitment, training, deployment, and management of data collection teams

• Contribute to the development and implementation of a project dashboard for MEAL data

• Support adaptive management practices that will ensure that lessons learned from implementation, assessments, and community feedback mechanisms are incorporated into implementation by analyzing data and communicating key findings based on the project’s MEAL activities in regular meetings with partner staff

• Foster a learning environment and contribute to knowledge management within the project

• Provide managerial oversight to a team of MEAL Managers and Senior MEAL Coordinators, and support MEAL team workplan and budgeting processes (monthly, 6-monthly, and annually)

• Coordinate with technical and cross-cutting specialists to ensure that robust and participatory beneficiary accountability and feedback mechanisms are established, used, and reported against

• Ensure that project data are protected and shared according to CPI and donor policies

• Recommend the use of ICT solutions for MEAL, as appropriate

• Any other relevant tasks assigned by the Strategic Information Lead (supervisor)

Essential Skills

• Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, governance, development, public policy or other relevant fields.

• At least seven years of relevant MEAL work experience in humanitarian and/or development programming

• Strong track record in developing and implementing MEAL systems

• Strong knowledge/experience of quantitative and qualitative project evaluations 

• Strong report writing and data visualization skills, with the ability to present MEAL findings clearly

• Some proficiency in statistics and statistical software (e.g., Stata/SPSS/R and Atlas.ti/NVivo)

• Fluency in Myanmar and high proficiency in written and spoken English 

• Self-motivated and able to work independently 

• Highly organized and able to work to deadlines 

• Confident and cooperative, even under pressure.

• Able to quickly develop a strong understanding of the local cultural and political context, and be able to motivate others and work successfully within these contexts.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

All interested and qualified candidates are requested to send an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae to:Email: recruitment@cpintl.org

• The closing date for application is 17:00pm, (11-Nov-2022, Wednesday), Yangon, Myanmar.

• Please clearly mention the Position and Location you are applying for in the email Subject Line.

• Due to the urgency of the role, CPI reserves the right to interview candidates before the closing date.

CPI’s Value

• At CPI, we believe that all people have right to live their live free from sexual violence and recognized that there are unequal power dynamics across the organization. CPI does not tolerate discrimination and harassment under any circumstances and will take disciplinary action, which may include dismissal, against any worker who discriminates or harasses any worker. Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours). Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training. All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause.

• CPI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability.

Note to Candidate

• Candidates are required to declare in advance that should there be any relative or family member currently being employed in CPI. Failure to do so can lead to termination of the employment contract even after successful selection.

• Because of the large volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

• Contract and position are contingent upon successful award of the project and final approval by the donor.