Monitoring and Evaluation (MEAL) officer

Embrace in a Non-Profit Organization dedicated to mental health and has played a crucial role in recent years by breaking the stigma and igniting conversations about mental health on a national level in Lebanon through its campaigns and impact-oriented projects. Embrace works towards this mission through raising awareness, advocacy, and providing dignified mental health services across the spectrum of care. We fulfil our mission through several key pillar programs that cover a wide range of mental health care areas from prevention to direct and specialized intervention through a quick but non-exhaustive list of programs mentioned below:

• Operating the National Lifeline (1564), which is Lebanon's National Emotional Support and Suicide Prevention Helpline in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, this helpline has received over 37,000 calls in the past 5 years.
• Operating the CEDARS program serving as a research hub that captures and publishes mental health and suicide metrics, conducts monitoring and evaluation activities, and publishes academic research.
• Providing national and international capacity building trainings on mental health first aid, and suicide prevention, detection and intervention to a wide range of non-profit local and international organization working within the humanitarian field in Lebanon.
• Operating the Embrace Mental Health Center, offering free various clinical services such as individual psychotherapy, psychiatric consultations, group psychotherapy, and coverage of relevant medical fees for treatment.
• Implementing Embrace the Workplace Program to raise awareness, prevent mental illness, and enhance mental well-being in the workplace through customized and tailored mental health packages, services and trainings to a wide range of corporations.
• Running an Awareness and Outreach Program since 2014, which has reached over 25,000 people in Lebanon. The awareness and outreach program includes information booth activation with trained volunteers explaining the importance of mental health and sharing the different free accessible mental health services provided in Lebanon. 
• Embrace Mobile Mental Health Clinic a bus going around different remote areas in Lebanon with a dedicated team that will provide free essential mental health consultations and raise awareness in communities across

Monitoring & Evaluation Duties

• Develop/Refine Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) tools for ongoing Embrace projects and activities.
• Pinpoint relevant data sources, automate collection processes, and process structured and unstructured data.
• Lead the development of coding frameworks for the automation of data management and analysis processes.
• Provide quality oversight and assurance of data collection to ensure the completeness, accuracy, robustness, and timely production of all reports.
• Support in the presentation of findings, conclusions, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Maintain complex end-to-end data pipeline to monitor, connect, and transform data from data sources to match the format and schema of its destination.
• Produce data reports and M&E reports of indicators for internal and external stakeholders, donors, the MOPH, and other stakeholders as needed.
• Produce data reports as needed for presentations, communication material or any relevant work.

Grants, Research & Writing

• Ensure accuracy of data collected from systems and software to ensure the completeness, accuracy, robustness, and timely production of all reports.
• Revise research opportunities to vet potential applications, organize them with a departmental strategy, and start application processes as needed for certain platforms.
• Track grant/funding application processes to completion and follow-up on submission needs as required.
• Contribute to application proposals through coordination with relevant departments and research evidence-based practices to support the project and findings.

Critical Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, or related field. Master’s Degree is an asset.
• Minimum of 2-year relevant experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Tools (Word- Excel- PowerPoint) and reporting models (Excel functions, Pivot Tables, data collection and consolidation, mapping of data)
• Proficient in the use of statistical software (e.g., Python, SQL, SPSS, Stata, or R)
• Experience leveraging and managing large datasets.
• Experience using Google Workspace (Google Forms, Google Sheets)
• Experience working with CRMs or EHRs
• Strong knowledge in official documental procedures (compliance aspect) and proper know-how of allocations
• Knowledge in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, data base management and developing tracking reports.
• Budgeting and accounting experience.
• Experience in using data visualization tools.
• Strong writing skills.
• Fluency in English and Arabic.

40 hours a week office work (Full-time)

 Behavioral Skills

• Demonstrates critical reasoning and ability to problem solve independently and efficiently.
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills and work under pressure with timelines and deadlines.
• Demonstrates ability to work effectively and independently, as part of a team
• Demonstrates strong client- facing team- work skills.

• Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills.