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Save the Children International (SCI) is the world’s leading independent non-profit organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. SCI’s Mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives. In Zambia, SCI has been implementing programmes across Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, Child Poverty and Humanitarian thematic areas since 1983.

With funding from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, SCI and The Hunger Project (THP) in partnership with the Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH) will implement the Optimizing Health and Nutrition in Eastern Zambia (OHNEZ) in Lumezi district. The project will work with the Ministry of Health to strengthen health and food systems and achieve four critical results through the implementation of a package of interventions as follows:

• Sustained improvements in equitable access to and quality of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health, and nutrition (MNCHN) services
• Increased demand and enhanced social norms for preventative health and nutrition behaviours and use of health services.
• Increased capacity of local institutions and organizations to sustainably deliver evidence-based, quality health and nutrition services; and
• Increased access to and consumption of diverse foods among vulnerable communities to improve maternal and child dietary diversity.

Responsibilities or duties

The MEAL Officer role will provide MEAL technical oversight and operational support to data management, use and reporting for the Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (IMNCHN) Project in Lumezi. S/he will provide be responsible for implementation of an effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning system for the project, in collaboration with the programmes team and partners. The person will be responsible for overseeing data collection, cleaning/ verifying data, compiling reports for internal and external consumption, coordinating closely with the technical staff to ensure that high quality systems support adaptive management and data-driven programming. Additionally, the person will be responsible for packaging and presenting data in a meaningful way to comply with reporting requirements and expand stakeholder learning. The role will include capacity building programme/partner staff, strategic and annual planning, internal reporting and evidence generation

• Provide MEAL technical oversight and operational support to data management, use and reporting for the Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (IMNCHN) Project in Lumezi.
• Responsible for implementation of an effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning system for the project, in collaboration with the programmes team and partners.
• Overseeing data collection, cleaning/ verifying data.
• Compiling reports for internal and external consumption.
• Coordinating closely with the technical staff to ensure that high quality systems support adaptive management and data-driven programming.
• Packaging and presenting data in a meaningful way to comply with reporting requirements and expand stakeholder learning.
• Capacity building programme/partner staff.
• Strategic and annual planning.
• Internal reporting and evidence generation.