# Senior MEAL Manager

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Cox's Bazar
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations

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## Description

The Senior MEAL Manager leads all MEAL work for the consortium. This is a full-time, hands-on role in the Program Management Unit (PMU), which manages day-to-day delivery of the project.

In this role, you will:

- Set the MEAL framework and standards for the whole consortium.

- Collect, check and combine indicator data from IRC and all Bangladeshi Partners.

- Make sure DFAT-funded results are clearly attributed and that each client is counted only once.

- Build the MEAL skills of partner organizations.

**Consortium MEAL framework and strategic ownership:**

- Design, maintain and regularly update the consortium-wide MEAL framework and MEAL Plan.

- Own the consortium’s MEAL standard and practice.

- Agree with all partners how each indicator is defined and calculated.

- Lead the annual Program Logic review and monitoring of key assumptions and risks with partners.

**Data collection, consolidation, analysis and reporting:**

- Collect, clean, validate, analyze and compile project data for all indicators across IRC and all Bangladeshi Partners.

- Ensure all partners collect data using CommCare-based tools and upload it daily to one central server.

- Maintain one common ITT for all partners and analyze CommCare MIS data and the Program Indicator Dashboard (PID) monthly.

- Ensure data is consistently broken down by sex, age, gender, disability and location on every record.

**Routine and process monitoring:**

- Lead a standardized process monitoring approach with tools and checklists for various sectors.

- Monitor service quality, continuity, client access and satisfaction during the phased transition of services to Bangladeshi Partners.

- Select activities for monthly spot checks based on MIS analysis.

**Data quality assurance:**

- Check the quality of partner-reported data by verifying it, applying validation rules, cleaning it with a clear record of changes.

- Lead annual Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) using IRC’s DQA methodology.

**Baseline, surveys, evaluations and research:**

- Use the baseline survey as the benchmark for tracking change and refining targets.

- Develop Terms of Reference, methodologies, sampling plans, tools and analysis plans.

- Oversee enumerators and partner field supervisors.

**Accountability to affected populations:**

- Ensure there is one consortium-wide Client Feedback and Response Mechanism (CFRM).

- Ensure feedback is recorded in the CommCare MIS and handled through IRC’s 4R approach.

**Learning and adaptive management:**

- Develop and maintain the consortium Learning Agenda and learning logs.

- Organize the quarterly reflection sessions, annual learning workshop and the Evidence-to-Action Plan.

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## Skills

### Required
- MEAL framework
- data analysis
- CommCare
- MIS
- DFAT

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