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Technical Advisor, Emergency MEAL
Organization
International Rescue Committee
Posted 7 Aug 2025 Closing date 7 Sep 2025
IRC’s Emergency Unit
The IRC’s Emergency Unit (EmU) oversees IRC’s global emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EmU is to expand and improve IRC’s ability to help affected communities survive in acute emergencies and hard to reach contexts by investing in people, systems, and solutions to complex humanitarian challenges. The EmU team achieves this mission through ongoing rigorous risk analysis, investing in capacity strengthening of frontline humanitarians, partnership with local actors, offering collaborative support and technical assistance to teams working in emergencies and hard to reach places, and deploying and supporting world class emergency response staff as they help people affected by acute crisis situations.
Job Overview
The MEAL Technical Advisor (TA) will sit within EmU’s Quality in Emergencies (QiE) team, comprised of MEAL and sectoral experts working on violence prevention and response, education and early childhood development, health and cash in acute emergency contexts. The team is tasked with ensuring the delivery of high quality, integrated emergency response programming as well as the development of resources to support such implementation by country team staff, emergency response team staff, partners, and other stakeholders.
The TA will work closely alongside and report to EmU’s Director of Strategy & Measurement to ensure EmU’s ability to develop and meet its assessment, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning commitments, as set out in the IRC’s Strategy100 as well as multi-year Strategy Action Plan for Emergencies. Central to this is the harmonization of MEAL efforts across IRC’s emergency responses. They will serve as the primary MEAL focal point for response facing support as well as provide leadership to priority MEAL initiatives such as the development of fit-for-purpose, easy to use toolkits and guidance to support the response teams’ ability to develop data informed response plans, set-up of feedback and monitoring mechanisms as well as design and facilitate learning exercises. They will also be instrumental in contributing to the systems that allow the EmU and the wider IRC understand the quality, speed and scale of our responses at a global level.
Major Responsibilities
Direct Response Support
Serve as the primary QiE focal point and backstop for response support; track status of support for all active emergency responses. Ensure response teams meet minimum standards for MEAL in new response start-up (as outlined in the Emergency Roadmap). Ensure close coordination and liaison with Regional Measurement Advisors in deployment planning and eventual handover of responses. Onboard MEAL Cos and other relevant response members to the SAP reporting requirements and support forward planning around data collection or learning exercises, as relevant. Develop materials to support this onboarding, including briefing documents, checklists, etc. Ensure appropriate budget resourcing in both direct and partner-led projects. As required, deploy to support MEAL start-up in complex or large-scale emergencies (max 20% of time and maximum 6 weeks for single deployment). This is inclusive of, but not limited to, responsibilities such as: Leading a multi-sector needs assessment Setting up feedback and monitoring mechanisms Advising and training IRC and/or IRC partners on emergency MEAL tools and resources for emergency preparedness and response, as needed. Participate in QiE Leadership Team weekly calls to address response level updates and questions.
Strategic Reporting and Analysis
Serve as the QiE focal point for global Emergency SAP response metric data consolidation which speaks to response quality, speed and scale, including for quarterly and annual reporting. Work closely with MEAL Systems Advisor on data management of response metrics, including in Airtable. Seek new or improved ways to increase the efficiency of our work and to leverage existing data collection to help IRC understand the quality of our emergency response work. Prepare analysis and visualizations to help QiE understand and speak to the impact and process of our work.
Guidance, Tools and Learning
Contribute to maintenance of MEAL in emergency resources, tools and guidance for use by both IRC colleagues and partners. Project manage the review and update processes of tools and guidance, as needed. Co-lead, alongside the Director Strategy & Measurement, the roll-out of new tools in collaboration with the rest of the EmU MEAL team. Contribute to further building out the QiE knowledge management database, in collaboration with the Director Strategy & Measurement and the MEAL Systems Advisor, and proactively consider ways to analyze and share trends and learning within. Stay abreast of initiatives within the IRC, such as IMPACT, PCM, Evidence to Action, AI Initiatives, Partnership in Emergencies, Data Toolkits, and Best Use of Resources, to ensure coherency and the achievement of joint objectives – as for all members of the EmU MEAL Team. Participate and contribute to MEAL training for EmU, regional, and relevant country programs. Contribute to the learning agenda in emergencies, including by working on guidance notes, leading or coordinating learning exercises, and feed into routines around learning data collection, dissemination and accountability.
Team Culture
Build and maintain strong working relationships with EmU colleagues and continually promote a culture of partnership and collaboration. Cultivate and maintain a positive, inclusive, safe and caring work environment, while additionally setting an example of ‘One IRC’-way of working within the team, EmU and the wider organization. Advance efforts across EmU to promote gender equality, diversity and more inclusive practice across our programming and our ways of working. Engage in effective power-sharing practices and ensure colleagues have the knowledge, support, and power to do their work with autonomy.
Key Working Relationships
Position reports to: Director Strategy & Measurement Position directly supervises: N/A Indirect Reporting: Emergency Surge Roster MEAL Coordinators, when deployed Other Internal and/or external contacts: Close working relationship with EmU MEAL Team, Quality in Emergencies team (from leadership through to Emergency Response Team deployees), Regional Measurement Advisors, the Global Measurement Unit and country office colleagues responding to emergencies.
Requirements
A university degree / sound training in a relevant subject area (statistics, data management, international programming, public health, economics) or related combination of education and work experience. Proven experience working on MEAL in emergency contexts, including in the design and implementation of rapid multi-sector needs assessments. Experience in new start-ups highly desirable. Strong data analysis and data story telling skills. Experience in the design and facilitation of learning exercises along with uptake of recommendations. Proactive, highly organized and interest in thinking outside of the box. Flexible and interested in advancing team goals. Familiarity with the principles of MEAL as they are applied in emergency settings, and ability to think creatively and pro-actively about their adoption. Experience setting up and managing beneficiary feedback mechanisms and multi-sectoral monitoring systems. Experience with mobile data collection tools (particularly via Kobo or Commcare). Knowledge of data visualization tools (particularly PowerBi), preferred. Experience developing technology solutions for humanitarian programming, preferred. Experience and competency in moderate statistical analysis and reporting preferred. Language skills: Excellent oral and written English language skills required. Proficiency in French, Spanish or Arabic an advantage.
How to apply
https://careers.rescue.org/us/en/job/req59165/Emergency-MEAL-Technical-Advisor
Job details
Countries
Jordan Kenya United States of America
City New York, Nairobi, Amman Source
International Rescue Committee
Type
Job
Career category
Monitoring and Evaluation
Years of experience
5-9 years
Themes
Disaster Management Health
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Technical Advisor, Emergency MEAL
Organization
International Rescue Committee
Posted 7 Aug 2025 Closing date 7 Sep 2025
IRC’s Emergency Unit
The IRC’s Emergency Unit (EmU) oversees IRC’s global emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EmU is to expand and improve IRC’s ability to help affected communities survive in acute emergencies and hard to reach contexts by investing in people, systems, and solutions to complex humanitarian challenges. The EmU team achieves this mission through ongoing rigorous risk analysis, investing in capacity strengthening of frontline humanitarians, partnership with local actors, offering collaborative support and technical assistance to teams working in emergencies and hard to reach places, and deploying and supporting world class emergency response staff as they help people affected by acute crisis situations.
Job Overview
The MEAL Technical Advisor (TA) will sit within EmU’s Quality in Emergencies (QiE) team, comprised of MEAL and sectoral experts working on violence prevention and response, education and early childhood development, health and cash in acute emergency contexts. The team is tasked with ensuring the delivery of high quality, integrated emergency response programming as well as the development of resources to support such implementation by country team staff, emergency response team staff, partners, and other stakeholders.
The TA will work closely alongside and report to EmU’s Director of Strategy & Measurement to ensure EmU’s ability to develop and meet its assessment, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning commitments, as set out in the IRC’s Strategy100 as well as multi-year Strategy Action Plan for Emergencies. Central to this is the harmonization of MEAL efforts across IRC’s emergency responses. They will serve as the primary MEAL focal point for response facing support as well as provide leadership to priority MEAL initiatives such as the development of fit-for-purpose, easy to use toolkits and guidance to support the response teams’ ability to develop data informed response plans, set-up of feedback and monitoring mechanisms as well as design and facilitate learning exercises. They will also be instrumental in contributing to the systems that allow the EmU and the wider IRC understand the quality, speed and scale of our responses at a global level.
Major Responsibilities
Direct Response Support
Serve as the primary QiE focal point and backstop for response support; track status of support for all active emergency responses. Ensure response teams meet minimum standards for MEAL in new response start-up (as outlined in the Emergency Roadmap). Ensure close coordination and liaison with Regional Measurement Advisors in deployment planning and eventual handover of responses. Onboard MEAL Cos and other relevant response members to the SAP reporting requirements and support forward planning around data collection or learning exercises, as relevant. Develop materials to support this onboarding, including briefing documents, checklists, etc. Ensure appropriate budget resourcing in both direct and partner-led projects. As required, deploy to support MEAL start-up in complex or large-scale emergencies (max 20% of time and maximum 6 weeks for single deployment). This is inclusive of, but not limited to, responsibilities such as: Leading a multi-sector needs assessment Setting up feedback and monitoring mechanisms Advising and training IRC and/or IRC partners on emergency MEAL tools and resources for emergency preparedness and response, as needed. Participate in QiE Leadership Team weekly calls to address response level updates and questions.
Strategic Reporting and Analysis
Serve as the QiE focal point for global Emergency SAP response metric data consolidation which speaks to response quality, speed and scale, including for quarterly and annual reporting. Work closely with MEAL Systems Advisor on data management of response metrics, including in Airtable. Seek new or improved ways to increase the efficiency of our work and to leverage existing data collection to help IRC understand the quality of our emergency response work. Prepare analysis and visualizations to help QiE understand and speak to the impact and process of our work.
Guidance, Tools and Learning
Contribute to maintenance of MEAL in emergency resources, tools and guidance for use by both IRC colleagues and partners. Project manage the review and update processes of tools and guidance, as needed. Co-lead, alongside the Director Strategy & Measurement, the roll-out of new tools in collaboration with the rest of the EmU MEAL team. Contribute to further building out the QiE knowledge management database, in collaboration with the Director Strategy & Measurement and the MEAL Systems Advisor, and proactively consider ways to analyze and share trends and learning within. Stay abreast of initiatives within the IRC, such as IMPACT, PCM, Evidence to Action, AI Initiatives, Partnership in Emergencies, Data Toolkits, and Best Use of Resources, to ensure coherency and the achievement of joint objectives – as for all members of the EmU MEAL Team. Participate and contribute to MEAL training for EmU, regional, and relevant country programs. Contribute to the learning agenda in emergencies, including by working on guidance notes, leading or coordinating learning exercises, and feed into routines around learning data collection, dissemination and accountability.
Team Culture
Build and maintain strong working relationships with EmU colleagues and continually promote a culture of partnership and collaboration. Cultivate and maintain a positive, inclusive, safe and caring work environment, while additionally setting an example of ‘One IRC’-way of working within the team, EmU and the wider organization. Advance efforts across EmU to promote gender equality, diversity and more inclusive practice across our programming and our ways of working. Engage in effective power-sharing practices and ensure colleagues have the knowledge, support, and power to do their work with autonomy.
Key Working Relationships
Position reports to: Director Strategy & Measurement Position directly supervises: N/A Indirect Reporting: Emergency Surge Roster MEAL Coordinators, when deployed Other Internal and/or external contacts: Close working relationship with EmU MEAL Team, Quality in Emergencies team (from leadership through to Emergency Response Team deployees), Regional Measurement Advisors, the Global Measurement Unit and country office colleagues responding to emergencies.
Requirements
A university degree / sound training in a relevant subject area (statistics, data management, international programming, public health, economics) or related combination of education and work experience. Proven experience working on MEAL in emergency contexts, including in the design and implementation of rapid multi-sector needs assessments. Experience in new start-ups highly desirable. Strong data analysis and data story telling skills. Experience in the design and facilitation of learning exercises along with uptake of recommendations. Proactive, highly organized and interest in thinking outside of the box. Flexible and interested in advancing team goals. Familiarity with the principles of MEAL as they are applied in emergency settings, and ability to think creatively and pro-actively about their adoption. Experience setting up and managing beneficiary feedback mechanisms and multi-sectoral monitoring systems. Experience with mobile data collection tools (particularly via Kobo or Commcare). Knowledge of data visualization tools (particularly PowerBi), preferred. Experience developing technology solutions for humanitarian programming, preferred. Experience and competency in moderate statistical analysis and reporting preferred. Language skills: Excellent oral and written English language skills required. Proficiency in French, Spanish or Arabic an advantage.
How to apply
https://careers.rescue.org/us/en/job/req59165/Emergency-MEAL-Technical-Advisor
Job details
Countries
Jordan Kenya United States of America
City New York, Nairobi, Amman Source
International Rescue Committee
Type
Job
Career category
Monitoring and Evaluation
Years of experience
5-9 years
Themes
Disaster Management Health
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