About SOUL

SOUL for Development is a national NGO, founded in February 1997 by a group of Yemeni professionals out of their desire to achieve a higher quality of life for Yemeni women and children. Since its inception, it has implemented over 80 development interventions in 18 out of Yemen's 22 governorates, benefiting over 5, 500,000 people. As a result, the organization has established itself among the most effective civil society organizations in Yemen that are working on health, education, and WASH issues in support of women, children, and youth. Operating out of its Headquarters in Sana’a and its offices in Taiz and Aden, SOUL, provides critical educational, health, and WASH services to urban and rural communities. 

Job Information

• Job Title:  MEAL Assistant.
• Location: Taiz with regular visit to Hays & Al Makha.
• Contract Type: Full Time.
• Contract Duration: 11 Month.
• Start Date: As soon as possible.

Job Description:

The MEAL Assistant will report to the MEAL Officer in the MEAL Officer. He/she will be in Charge of assisting of implementing the project’s MEAL activities ensuring the Organization’s overall strategies and the project outcomes, outputs, and activities are Achieved timely with the desired quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assisting on preparing projects’ M&E plans, indicators, and mechanisms to collect data in line with project plans and budgets.
• Conducting PDM, Satisfaction survey and FGDs.
• Responsible for all the processes of conducting assessments starting from (gathering the secondary data, planning to conduct surveys, selecting samples, developing data collection tools, training the enumerators, collecting and analyzing the data, writing reports as well.
• Supervise data entry of monitoring forms to ensure data quality and accuracy. 
• Consolidate CMAMA data base from the staff and check from the quality of data.
• Conduct field visits to HFs, distribution points and warehouses to observe the performance and quality.
• Raise issues which related to HFs, distribution points, and warehouses to the supervisors and project team and recommend solutions.
• Conduct field visits to the implementing project’s locations.
• Review all the project reports and provide feedback if any.
• Track outputs and expected results of ongoing projects and present the findings to projects and line managers at monthly meetings.
• Write periodic monitoring, field visit, and assessment reports and share them to the Line Manager.
• Periodic update of the indicator project tracking tables (IPTT) in the ERP system.
• Ensure all the humanitarian assistance reached the most vulnerable people.
• Ensure that SOUL’s CRM is implemented, and encourage the beneficiaries to send the complaints and recommendations by SOUL complaints tools (Hotline, Complaint boxes…etc.).  
• Send the complaints that are sent by the complaint boxes to the Accountability Officer. 
• Ensure that all the beneficiaries’ information and complaints will be treated confidentially.
• Monitor the application of the ERP system and documents comments. 
• Other tasks related to MEAL activities.    

Qualifications & Experience:

• Preferably a bachelor’s degree in Social Science Statistics IT, business management, nutrition, or any other relevant field.
• One years’ experience in MEAL activities preferably related to the nutrition activities.
• Knowledge and demonstrated capacity of databases: SPSS, Excel, and Google form are an asset. 
• Good analytical, and excellent oral communication, teamwork, and people skills.
• Familiarity with data collection tools, data processing and analysis, and monitoring techniques is a plus. 
• Good of both Arabic and English languages. 
• Very good command of MS Office applications.