MEAL Officer, SRSP Project | Jagorani Chakra Foundation

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Responsibilities & Context
Jagorani Chakra Foundation (JCF) is a national voluntary social welfare organization. JCF is going to implement the Flood Anticipatory Action (FAA), Shock Responsive Social Protection (SRSP) in Manikganj district in 2025 to Vulnerable Households in Food-Prone Areas of Padma River Basin Bangladesh Project in Manikganj supported by WFP. To ensure the quality implementation of the project, JCF intends to recruit project staff from qualified candidates of Bangladeshi nationals. Primarily the project duration is December 2025.

Job Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the overall monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) of forecast-based early warning system disaster management approach projects.
  • Develop monitoring planning to support implementation and ensure quality program delivery and household database preparation as per the project requirement and maintain data in the digital system. 
  • Maintain liaison with District, Upazila and Union DMC (Disaster Management Committee) members at different levels for the conduction of flood-vulnerable households survey using Kobo tools, reviewing NID for active Bkash numbers.
  • Have experience to supervise good number of data enumerators for data collection and KYC verification.
  • Capture stories of community resilience building to flood/disasters, awareness created, knowledge enhanced to flood early warning system (EWS) of FFWC, training and orientation to volunteers, community leaders, Mock drills, DMC members etc.
  • Support to District Coordinator, management, and donor for secondary vulnerable household list/data collection, verification, data quality check etc.
  • Regular survey data verification to ensure data quality through spot check, cross-check and real-time field monitoring of filed-level staff daily target.
  • Staff supervision, capacity building and management as required.
  • To prepare and send to the supervisor every weekly/monthly/periodical progress and financial documents and report preparation, case story and event reports etc.
  • Compilation of union-wise households survey data, validation, physical check and activate active Bkash number aligned with NIDs and post-activity monitoring as the project require. 
  • Taking appropriate steps to ensure project rules and orders with donor and organizational policies.
  • Supervise Upazila Coordinators, Field Facilitators (FF) in achieving the planned activities daily within the deadline.
  • Follow the organization’s Child Safeguarding, PSEA, Gender, HR, Finance, Procurement, Humanitarian Response Policy, and WB Policy.
  • Maintain humanitarian national and international standards applicable.  
  • Expertise in Kobo tools, MS Office (PowerPoint, word, excel), SPSS, good command of Bangla and English speaking and writing. Follow the organization’s Child Safeguarding, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender, and WB Policy.

Requirements

Education: Master/Bachelor in Statistics/Development Studies/ Social Science/Disaster Management/Environment/ or equivalent. Education qualification can be flexible for highly deserving applicants.

Experience: At least 5 years

Additional Requirements

  • Age at most 45 years
  • At least 5 years of working experience in Disaster Management/Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)/Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)/Early Warning System (EWS) projects.
  • At least 5 years of working experience in monitoring of Disaster Management relevant projects for project management and operation.
  • The applicant should have Project Manager/Coordinator level experience with reputed NGOs/Institutes/INGOs or UN agencies.
  • Should have own laptop and smartphone for survey monitoring.
  • Have adequate knowledge on Kobo Tools for large data survey conduction.
  • Maximum 45 years or flexible for highly deserving applicants

Job Location: Manikganj, Dhaka