METAL Coordinator

Job Title: METAL Coordinator

Band / Level / Grade: 6B

Department: CRRD,

Location: Aden, Yemen (30% travel across IRC Yemen locations)

BACKGROUND:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC responds to people’s acute and longer-term needs with integrated programs that improve health and safety, prioritize children’s education, foster economic wellbeing, and empower communities to regain control over their lives. Our work gives rise to some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary humanitarian action, including questions of access, conflict sensitivity, coordination, and impact.
The IRC Yemen began its programs in October 2012. Since establishing its presence in the South of Yemen, in the Red Sea Coastal city of Aden, the organization has grown from just an implementing small project to handling large scale emergency and relief operations. Following the war which broke out in Yemen in March of 2015 and the humanitarian disaster, which was crafted by the same, IRC launched one an emergency response program in the southern governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan, Shabwah and Al Dhale, and expanded later in Sana’a and Hodeidah in the North. Currently IRC Yemen is operating in eight governorates in the south and north of Yemen through direct programming and through local partnerships, in Health, WASH, Nutrition, Economic Recovery Development, Education, Child Protection, Gender and Women Protection and Empowerment.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) have been working in the Middle East, North Africa and Ukraine (MENAU) for more than forty years. Today, the IRC has more than 2,200 staff working across the region, including in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen to support those affected by some of the world’s most complex and protracted humanitarian crises.

Scope Of Work

The METAL Coordinator will provide national leadership and management oversight to ensure that the Yemen country program develops and achieves METAL commitments. The METAL Coordinator will lead a dynamic department comprised of two teams: Monitoring & Evaluation and Client Responsiveness & Accountability.

Job Summary

This position reports to the Deputy Director of Programs and is responsible for ensuring that data and learning are applied towards continuous improvements in program quality and evidence-based program design and make every effort to ensure data visualization products are used by project teams and the country SMT. The METAL Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and data management systems are in place, sufficiently resourced, and successfully implemented from collection to visualization. The Coordinator will ensure that METAL principles are integrated into every step of the project cycle. In support of these goals, this position provides technical assistance, facilitates capacity sharing, and ensures ongoing mentoring and training in METAL concepts for IRC and partner staff.

Working Relations

METAL Coordinator is supported technically by the Regional Measurement Advisor (RMA) and the Regional Technology Coordinator (RTC) This position is based in Aden with occasional travel to program sites across Yemen.

Main Responsibilities

Technical Oversight

• Provide technical leadership to ensure strong data systems and processes throughout the project cycle, from design and implementation to close-out and learning.
• Use learning and evidence from internal and external sources to inform proposal design and theories of change.
• Develop and operationalize logical frameworks, METAL plans, data collection tools, processes for data management, client feedback approaches, quality checks and audits, and data visualization.
• Provide METAL technical assistance to program teams during the design and inception stages, including support with logframes, indicator selection and measurement methodologies, and the development of data collection plans and tools.
• Develop a METAL budget and staffing structure for all projects that is responsive to planned activities and data requirements.
• Ensure the effective set-up and use of data platforms to ensure effective data collection, management and presentation including METAL Maturity Assessments.
• Using the organizational PID approach, produce high-quality data, analysis, re