Overview
The MEAL Officer – IPC/WASH is responsible for the operational implementation of the monitoring system for IPC/WASH interventions, developing and maintaining activity databases, digitizing data collection tools, conducting IPC assessments, and ensuring data quality for response piloting.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement the monitoring system for IPC/WASH interventions in supported health facilities and community sites.
- Develop and maintain a consolidated database to track activities, supported sites, training, supervision, distributions, triage, WASH activities, hygiene committees, and corrective actions.
- Digitize monitoring tools in CommCare, integrating validation controls, unique identifiers, and de-duplication mechanisms.
- Ensure the use of IRC's standard IPC Toolkit v2 for health facility assessments and manage the quality, synchronization, and exploitation of generated data.
- Update the Indicator Tracking Table (ITT), reach tracker, site master lists, and dashboards, ensuring accuracy of targets, achievements, locations, periods, and disaggregations.
- Regularly compare planned activities with achievements, identify implementation gaps, and report actions requiring decisions or follow-up.
- Plan and conduct IPC assessments in health facilities in coordination with Health/WASH teams and health authorities.
- Ensure reliable data collection on key IPC areas including screening, triage, isolation, hygiene, cleaning, PPE, water, sanitation, healthcare waste management, and IPC governance.
- Analyze scores, deviations from standards, and trends to identify critical risks, intervention priorities, and support needs at the health facility level.
- Contribute to the development of recovery and improvement plans based on assessment results and ensure follow-up of agreed actions, deadlines, and progress.
- Ensure assessment results guide operational planning, infrastructure and equipment prioritization, resource allocation, and response adaptation.
- Implement regular data quality checks to ensure completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, validity, and integrity of data.
- Conduct field verifications and reconciliations between digital data, registers, activity reports, attendance lists, distribution forms, and other primary sources, documenting corrections.
- Maintain updated databases, trackers, verification sources, and dashboards, applying appropriate backup, version control, and access management procedures.
- Analyze data by health facility, health zone, partner, activity, and period to track coverage, results, gaps, trends, and progress of corrective actions.
- Update Power BI dashboards and other visualization products, and produce clear summaries for follow-up meetings, internal and donor reports, and performance reviews.
- Present key findings and recommendations to MEAL and Health/WASH teams and promote their use for decision-making and continuous improvement of intervention quality.
- Ensure secure and confidential data management in accordance with IRC policies, particularly for sensitive information related to patients, health staff, and incidents.
- Train and support IRC teams, partners, enumerators, and health facility staff on monitoring tools, CommCare, indicator definitions, IPC assessments, and data quality requirements.
- Provide practical support during the deployment of digital tools and initial data collection, and ensure continuous coaching to improve reporting quality, consistency, and timeliness.
- Collaborate with health authorities and partners to harmonize IRC tools with national systems, strengthen data flows, and avoid duplication of data collection.
- Participate in planning meetings, program reviews, and project cycle meetings to present results, gaps, and priority follow-up actions.
- Contribute to an inclusive, respectful, collaborative, and problem-solving work environment.
Required Experience
At least one year of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management, public health, WASH, or a related field; two years or more is desired. Experience in primary data collection, quality control, and report production in a humanitarian or health context. Experience in health facility monitoring, IPC, health WASH, or an epidemic response is a significant advantage. Experience working with field teams, health structures, public authorities, or local partners is desired.
Qualifications
University or technical diploma in monitoring and evaluation, public health, nursing sciences, hygiene, WASH, environment, statistics, data management, or a related field.
