Lowongan Save the Children Indonesia : MEAL Consultant (BISA PROJECT) - EXTERNAL CANDIDATE ONLY -

Save the Children in Indonesia is changing for the better. We've begun to build a national organization that aims to be a strong, local, and self-sustaining voice for children in Indonesia. To this end, SC Indonesia has been designated as a “Prospect Member”. As ‘Prospect Member’ Indonesia has been identified as part of the next way of new member development, which focuses on strengthening and localizing our voice for children in strategic middle income countries. Indonesia has been authorized by member ballot to start fundraising locally as a first step towards building a financially sustainable local organization. Future work will also involve developing a strong local governance structure and building key partnerships with local government, the private sector, local civil society among others. Success of the pilot phase will set the Indonesia on a pathway to full membership. We are currently seeking to fill the following position:


MEAL CONSULTANT (BISA PROJECT)

1 (one) position based in Jakarta

Introduction


The Better Investment for Stunting Alleviation (­BISA) programme is an integrated nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programme designed jointly by Save the Children (SC) and Nutrition International (NI) (‘the BISA team’) to assist the Government of Indonesia (GoI) to realise the goal of National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (2018-2024). BISA targets two Provinces – West Java (WJ) and Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT).


To support the GoI’s ambition to reduce stunting, BISA will:

Implement a Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Package focused on improved maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices of adolescents, pregnant and lactating women (PLW), and caregivers of children under two;
Provide technical assistance to District and Provincial government and health service providers to improve the delivery and enhance access to and use of iron-folic acid for pregnant women and pregnant adolescent girls; Weekly Iron Folic Acid for adolescent girls; vitamin A supplementation, zinc, and oral rehydration salts for children under five, and MIYCN counselling for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and caregivers;
Provide technical assistance to the national, Provincial and District government to improve the allocation and effective use of funding and human resources at Provincial, District and Village levels.


Over a five-year period, BISA will enable 3.3 million people including 734,100 women, 489,343 children under two, and 1.45m adolescent girls to access high impact nutrition services. BISA will test and scale-up two packages of interventions: (1) The ‘Essential’ Package focused on strengthening the supply side of nutrition service delivery; and (2) The ‘Essential+’ Package that combines supply side services with demand side services through the provision of direct support to communities. The two packages will be tested in four districts (two per Province) in the first two years to assess impact and generate evidence (Phase 1), and in the end of year 3 the package will be scaled-up to an additional eight districts to a total of 12 Districts (Phase 2).


Prior to the start of activities, BISA is implementing a 5-month inception phase (July-November 2019) investing time to form a robust plan for monitoring and evaluating the project and capturing lessons learnt, as well as to develop a clear strategy for which elements will be scaled-up over the project lifespan.

Aim & Objectives

The aim is to support BISA team and partners to develop robust approaches and systems for monitoring, evaluation, assessment and learning (MEAL) and scale-up during the inception phase. Specific objectives are to:


Develop a MEAL framework for the project, including log frame and key indicators, evaluation approach, and monitoring and data quality tools and approaches.
Advise on and support the establishment of an appropriate management information system for the project.
Deliverables

MEAL Framework, including:
Updated logframe and key indicators, with targets and criteria for scale up
List and definitions of all indicators (outcome, output, input), how each is collected, source of data (secondary or primary), summarised and reported on
Draft key monitoring activities including budget and  data collection tools (to be tested)
Updated learning agenda document align with logframe and monitoring activities
Evaluation approach to assess progress on stunting and other outcome indicators (pre-post, comparison group? Etc)
Orientation agenda for staff
Scoping for MIS system, including:
what digital platform to use,
who will manage it,
cost of managing it,
what it needs to include,
next steps to set it up
Training and capacity building approach for project staff

Required Expertise:

Minimum Bachelor’s Degree required. Advanced degree in MEAL, public health, nutrition, development, health sciences or related field preferred.
Minimum of 10 years of experience required in designing and providing technical direction to MEAL for development. Nutrition and health development project experience preferred
Proven experience developing complex MEAL frameworks and systems for development projects.
Experience with quantitative and qualitative research designs, including experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
Proven capacity to train and coach staff on MEAL
Experience working in Indonesia and Asia region desirable.
Experience designing gender sensitive MEAL frameworks
Strong written and verbal language skills in English
Ability to travel frequently to Indonesia during consultancy.

To apply for this position, please click and go to our career site on :

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Closing date for application is up to October 22nd, 2019

(Only short-listed candidates will be notified)

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