Regional Strategy Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Advisor
Action Against Hunger, Kenya

Action Against Hunger-Horn and Eastern Africa is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in over 40 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security. Action Against Hunger Horn and Eastern Africa is an independent NGO, currently managing operations in Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $60 million in programs, and approximately 2000 staff based in New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi, and country offices. Additional growth is anticipated.

• Summary of position

The Regional Strategy, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Advisor plays a key role in Action Against Hunger Horn and East Africa Region by supporting strategy development processes and ensuring consistent design, application and engagement with MEAL systems and initiatives. S/he will lead strategy development and execution and harmonize the MEAL approaches across 8 country offices to ensure efficiency across mission and ensure compliance with Action Against Hunger MEAL minimum standards, guidelines, and procedures. S/he will also ensure data quality by designing MEAL systems, procedures, policies, and MEAL Guidelines to harmonize data across different missions.

Purpose:

• Provide technical oversight to strategy development, execution and performance management across the region ensuring that investment and programming priorities are aligned with strategy
• Provide technical oversight in the planning, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Action Against Hunger HEARO MEAL activities.
• Ensure that MEAL supports
• Provide technical support to the programs and build capacity in the country Mission through harmonizing learning and knowledge sharing.

Engagement

• Engage with technical and operations teams, country program teams, and counterparts in the Action Against Hunger network to strengthen a culture of Mamp;E in the organization and to create a conducive environment for its roll out
• Represent Action Against Hunger USA in relevant internal and external fora and working groups, including the Action Against Hunger MEAL Working Group.

Delivery:

• Standardize strategy development and performance management approaches and tools ensuring consistency of strategy execution and measurement of progress across ACF USA field operations
• Strengthen country program MEAL systems by rolling out Action Against Hunger’s Multi-Sectorial Mamp;E Guidelines and Minimum Standards; identifying strategic opportunities to generate and use data from MEAL, and improving and maintaining systems to foster the quality of Action Against Hunger HEARO interventions through improved monitoring and evaluation
• Lead roll-out and implementation of Action Against Hunger Multi-Sectorial Mamp;E Guidelines and Minimum Standards at HQ and country level
• Support and oversee application and implementation of MEAL systems in country programs in accordance with the Guidelines, Minimum Standards, and Action Against Hunger global reporting framework.
• Promote active learning and development from Action Against Hunger internal and external MEAL exercises.
• Develop/strengthen a MEAL community of practice (CoP) and use the CoP as platform to promote innovation, share best practices and build staff core competencies in strategy development and MEAL
• Support technical specialists to develop and roll-out sectoral quality assurance tools ensuring to assure technical quality and consistency of application of ACF core programming approaches
• Promote innovations in MEAL including technology which enhances MEAL efficiency (achieving the highest possible standards in impact measurement communications.
• Support and oversee all evaluative efforts in the region (including baselines, midterm reviews, endline evaluations) and conducting meta-analysis to inform policy, practice and programming decisions.
• Strength context analysis in country offices ensuring that ACF gains technical and thought leadership in detection and anticipatory action which significantly contributes towards prevention and mitigation of hunger and malnutrition
• Design and roll-out a comprehensive MEAL and project management training for all ACF field staff
• Lead the implementation of the Core Humanitarian Standards in the Horn and East Africa

I. Supervisory responsibilities:

• Directly supervises a regional monitoring systems specialist
• Technical supervisory line to MEAL focal in country (via matrix mechanism)

II. Gender Equality commitments

• Foster an environment that supp

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