JOB DESCRIBTION:

Position Title: Global MEAL Officer for Humanitarian Advocacy

Unit: CARE International Secretariat - Emergency Group (CEG)

Supervisor: Global Humanitarian MEAL Coordinator

Direct reports: None

Location: Flexible. Countries where CARE has a registered office and can host the role, and
where the candidate has relevant work authorization.

Type of contract: Local contract, following local labour conditions and regulations.

Travel: about 20% of time

BACKGROUND

CARE International is among the world’s largest international non-governmental humanitarian relief
and development organizations. Drawing on its 75 years of experience, through its confederation of
21 CARE member partners, as both a practitioner and thought leader, CARE International’s work
reaches more than 100 countries worldwide to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice
with a focus on gender equality.

At the core of the Confederation is a small, globally distributed Secretariat, which provides
coordination and support to its Members in many areas such as governance, strategic planning,
communications, membership development and accountability, advocacy, humanitarian response,
and program quality and impact.

CARE’s gender expertise and demonstrated experience advancing gender equality adds significant
value to the humanitarian advocacy community at all levels, from local to global, and horizontally in
various relevant thematic and sectoral fora. Our legitimacy as an advocate for a gendered
humanitarian response is firmly embedded in our ability to convene and connect our partners in
strategic humanitarian national, regional, and global spaces.

The CARE International Emergency Group (CEG) at the Secretariat carries – amongst other – the
responsibility to coordinate and support evidence driven advocacy from local to global levels in
support of humanitarian programming. To speak with authority to most key humanitarian policy
issues with a consistent gender lens and focus on women and girls’ rights requires continuous and
coherent documentation of evidence from our humanitarian programming and advocacy initiatives.

In the past decade, CARE, under the coordination of the CARE International Secretariat, has made
significant progress in setting up global mechanisms to collect and aggregate programmatic and
organisational data, becoming better equipped to describe and demonstrate the reach, the impact
and the program quality of CARE and partners work across the world. That coordination and support
includes also the consolidation of systems and tools to gather data about CARE’s actions across the
world, plus generating evidence and learning on how these actions meet quality standards and how
they contribute to lasting change in the lives of the poorest or most vulnerable.

There are significant opportunities to monitor advocacy relevant indicators (global as well as country
/ crisis specific) as well as outcomes generated by advocacy initiatives, to connect internal and
external data sources, in the application of advocacy outcome monitoring tools, and to support the
proper documentation of the many and diverse advocacy processes in which CARE’s humanitarian
teams are involved or are supporting partners leading such initiatives.

POSITION SUMMARY

The CARE International Secretariat is seeking a Global MEAL Officer for Humanitarian Advocacy to
support humanitarian advocacy initiatives in particular at country level in the planning and
improvement of advocacy processes (25%) and the collection, analysis and visualisation of data that
demonstrates the contribution of humanitarian advocacy processes to outcomes or impact,
combined with strengthening CARE and partners’ capacity to do so (75%).

The Global MEAL Officer for Humanitarian Advocacy will be responsible for developing and/or
adapting humanitarian advocacy monitoring processes, methods and tools that enable and
empower in particular CARE country teams, no matter what their context or advocacy experience,
and to accompany and support them in their efforts to generate the evidence and tell the story of
our advocacy impact.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES – specifically but not limited to:

• Contribute to humanitarian advocacy planning (25%)

- Support program and advocacy staff to identify gaps in data and other evidence to support
problem analysis and the development of a line of action for prioritised humanitarian
advocacy initiatives;
- Establish links to available data sources that support humanitarian advocacy planning and
outcome measurement, esp. at country level (e.g. HRPs, RRPs, IASC Gender Accountability
Framework, IASC GBV Accountability Framework, IASC Accountability Framework on
localization, participation and leadership of national and local actors, etc
- Establish mechanisms to monitor secondary data for indicators triggering priority
humanitarian advocacy efforts

• Guidance for humanitarian advocacy outcome monitoring (25%)

- Engage with priority country, regional, Secretariat and members’ relevant (advocacy, MEAL,
program) colleagues to understand and prioritise data collection and analysis needs
connected to global advocacy priorities (e.g. Women participation and leadership,
localization and funding to women’s organizations, more attention to and funding for
GEEWGiHA etc), and in line with CARE global indicators 14, 16, 17 and 21.
- In line with those priorities develop and adapt processes, methods and tools for the
monitoring of progress (tracking and documenting advocacy wins) as well as the
measurement of humanitarian advocacy outcomes; particular reference to CARE’s Advocacy
Influence and Impact Reporting (AIIR) tool.
- Support documentation and dissemination of lessons learnt, best practices, failures (“failing
forward”) etc. with regards to generating and documenting evidence of humanitarian
advocacy as well as of the efficiency of advocacy efforts, strategies and tactics
- Connect and work with peers outside CARE as necessary to learn from and share learning
with others;

• Support country teams in deploying and applying these processes, methods and tools (50%)
 - Identify gaps in the evidence on recording / tracking advocacy processes and in capturing /
measuring outcomes from humanitarian advocacy initiatives (also based on CARE’s global
data (PIIRS) on outcomes from humanitarian projects with humanitarian advocacy)
- Assess humanitarian advocacy monitoring capacity needs and gaps, both within CARE
country and regional offices as necessary but also, and critically, within partners
collaborating on advocacy efforts;
- Based on the above, establish and propose prioritisation of support to humanitarian
advocacy initiatives in priority countries / crises with regards to tracking wins and outcome
monitoring in line with priority themes of the humanitarian advocacy strategy
- Conduct training and coaching with focus on priority countries / crises;
- Convene dialogues with colleagues on humanitarian advocacy and influencing
documentation and reporting (on processes, wins and results);

TEAM
The position will report to the Global Humanitarian MEAL Coordinator in the CARE Emergency Group
of the CARE International Secretariat

DIRECT REPORTS
The Global MEAL Officer for Humanitarian Advocacy may supervise consultants, volunteers or
interns, contributing to data analysis and visualization of data related to humanitarian advocacy.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

The position will collaborate extensively with the following roles:

Within the Secretariat:

- Global Humanitarian Advocacy Coordinator (dotted reporting line)
- Head of Humanitarian Programme Quality
- Head of Humanitarian Operations
- Humanitarian Operations and Information Coordinator
- Global MEAL Coordinator
- Head of Knowledge Management and Learning

Across CARE:
- CARE USA Humanitarian Advocacy team (Senior manager Systems level impact, MEAL advisor)
- Senior EU Advocacy Advisor Advocacy
- Regional and country program advocacy and MEAL colleagues
- The position will participate in the monthly “regional to global humanitarian advocacy calls” and
other relevant working groups and communities of practice;

External:
- TBD

QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Undergraduate degree, or relevant experience, in monitoring and evaluation, data analysis,
social sciences, development studies or other relevant area of study

Work Experience:
- Cumulative three to five years of experience working in
 o Humanitarian advocacy: designing advocacy initiatives, analysing evidence gaps, preparing
evidence to support advocacy work, documenting advocacy processes, tracking advocacy
outcomes or results, etc.
o Monitoring and Evaluation: developing and implementing tools, mechanisms to collect,
analyse and visualize data, preferably in humanitarian programming
o Gender equality: developing gender analysis to inform programming, preferably in
humanitarian settings or in Nexus programming

Languages:
Fluent in written and spoken English.
Good working knowledge of French preferred.
Working knowledge of Spanish or Arabic is valued.

SKILLS and ATTRIBUTES

- Strong analysis skills and proven ability to make sense of complex data;
- Excellent facilitation skills and keen interest in working with teams and collegially;
- Ability to balance qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis;
- Gender Champion with a keen interest to contribute to gender equality and the empowerment
and protection of women and girls in humanitarian settings.
- Self-management and direction: autonomy, time management and prioritization skills, ability to
adapt to changing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Collaboration, proactiveness and listening skills: ability to work, communicate and interact with
diverse teams and building collaborative and effective working relationships.
- Problem solving: Ability to identify needs, challenges, analyse options, evaluate results, and
solve problems using the most effective solutions.
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harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to
share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and
related framework.

CARE International has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a
vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners. CARE International
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about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant
may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the
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All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening
checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. We will seek at least
two references, one of which must be your most recent employer. We participate in the Inter
Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and will request information from job applicants’
previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, child abuse and/or
sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left
employment. By applying, you confirm your understanding and agreement of these checks.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CVs and a covering letter of interest in
English to cirecruitment@careinternational.org by October 14th, 2022. Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
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Only candidates with the relevant work authorization will be considered.

More Information on CARE International is available at www.care-international.org.

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CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our
diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.