**Job Title**:MEAL Manager, Climate Asset Management for Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in the Philippines Program
**Reports to**:Chief of Party
- Climate Asset Management for Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in the Philippines Program
**Job Type**:Full-Time
**Department**:Country Programming
**Salary Grade**:Band 9
**Location: Manila Philippines
**About CRS**
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.
CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.
CRS' relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.
CRS Philippines, established in 1945, is the longest running, continuous CRS country program in the world with extensive programming in peacebuilding, emergency response and recovery, and disaster risk reduction.
The Philippines country program has over 100 staff members in Manila, Davao, and Cotabato City offices.
CRS Philippines is committed to collaborating with our strong network of church partners, national and subnational government agencies and secular NGOs throughout the country.
**Job Summary**
You will lead and provide strategic direction of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Accountability systems for the Climate Asset Management (CAM) for Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in the Philippines Program of the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA), of which CRS is a member.
CRS Philippines serves as the Lead Implementation Organization (LIO) for the CAM in the Philippines in partnership with consortium members.
S/he will be responsible for coordinating and supervising MEAL activities, working closely with CRS program teams and partner staff to develop and implement high-quality monitoring systems and tools that address indicators in the initiative's logical framework.
The MEAL Manager will directly supervise one MEAL Officer.
**THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON DONOR FUNDING ***
**Roles and Key Responsibilities**
- MEAL Strategy and Design _
- Provide input into the design and strategic direction of the overall MEAL system of the consortium at the regional level including performance monitoring plans (PMP), performance indicator reference sheets (PIR), indicator performance tracking table (IPTT), data collection instruments, data and reporting flow maps, feedback and response mechanisms (FRM), and detailed implementation plan (DIP) and lead the development and adaptation of the the Philippines-specific MEAL system as well as the larger MEAL system led by GEA.
- Support the project team and MEAL team in the design and implementation of vulnerability assessments, stakeholder mapping and analysis, gender analyses, and other pre-program data collection and analysis.
- Ensure the consistency of indicators and tools across all partners.
- Collect and analyze lessons learned and best practices from previous and ongoing programs capturing the impact of carbon sequestration activities to ensure they feed into program strategies as appropriate.
- Leverage lessons learned, best practices, program data, evaluations and other information to generate donor communication pieces, success stories, case studies and other high-quality, results-based documentation.
- Work with the senior management team to identify and pursue strategic opportunities for program expansion.
- MEAL Implementation _
- Lead mandated evaluations, needs assessments, annual surveys, case studies and other research efforts.
- Develop tailored MEAL operating manual to ensure complete, up-to-date, high quality MEAL system, containing essential data collection tools, data flow maps and analysis plans to address need-to-know information for program quality and donor reporting.
- Contribute to donor reports through high quality project data interpretation and report inputs.
- Support learning-to-action events and reflection sessions to systematically analyze data to promote adaptive management and to document and incorporate lessons learned into program design and implementation.
- Ensure MEAL and program teams regularly review and adjust MEAL plans and tools as needed by the project context.
- Ensure that transparent high-quality accountability mechanisms, including beneficiary feedback and response mechanisms, are in place and are regularly discussed at the appropriate level with necessary responses and feedback documented.
- Collaborate with other CRS country programs that are implementing Land Restoration Initiative activities to share learning, resources, and support across offices.
- Work with MEAL and IT staff to maximize the value and utility of ICT4D in MEAL initiatives including CommCare is highly desirable.
- MEAL Capacity building _
- Provide training, mentoring, and ongoing technical assistance to implementing partners to ensure effective implementation