SOUTH SUDAN – MEAL MANAGER (M/F) – 50% JUBA – 50% UPPER NILE

Desired start date: ASAP
Duration of the mission: 6months
Location: 50% Juba – 50%Upper Nile

SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL (SI) has been operating in South Sudan since 2006, conducting activities in emergency and post emergency context, particularly in rural and semi-urban areas, including refugees/returnees and IDP camp settings.

Context:

Food insecurity is one of the highest in the world due to recurring shocks (consecutive years of widespread flooding, conflict-based displacement), and an ongoing protracted macro-economic crisis.
The country also faces cholera outbreaks on a yearly basis, has very limited sanitation coverage and safe water access remain a challenge for most of the population.
On top of these chronic situations, South Sudan has been highly impacted by the war that started in Sudan in April 2023. By end of 2024, more than 1,000,000 people had entered South Sudan, the vast majority entering through the Joda/ Wunthow border point in Renk County, Upper Nile State (northern part of South Sudan).
More recently, resurgence of internal tensions have led to heightened conflict and analysts are worried that the peace conditions offered by the Peace Agreement may not hold.
As a result, 9,3 million are in need of humanitarian assistance as of 2025.

SI sectors of intervention:

The portfolio includes both WASH & FSL activities. SI’s expertise in running emergency WaSH intervention is highly acknowledged by all WaSH actors and donors and has been one of the first responders of the cholera response.

Areas of operation:

SI is present:

In Upper Nile, SI has an office in Malakal and a sub-office in Renk. The field office in Renk has been set-up to support the ongoing response to the Sudan Crisis and to ensure constant monitoring and rapid access to affected communities. SI’s long term presence in Upper Nile enables the organization to ensure proper coordination with other key players on the ground in order to provide a high-quality response and avoid duplication of efforts. The response has focused on cholera since november 2024 while maintaining life saving WASH services for returnees and refugees in the two main transit centres of the country.
SI has recently closed its operations in Unity but is looking at starting interventions in Northern Bahr-El-Ghazal (Aweil): base opening planned for spring 2025.
In addition, SI has a rapid emergency team based in Juba, who is beeing deployed following Rapid Needs Assessment in flood, epidemic or conflict induiced displacement in the country.

Size of operations:

In 2025, the mission’s estimated budget is around USD 5+ million, and there are 70+ employees. This is the result of a scale-down following US funding cut in 2025 that are finally relaunched.
To learn more about the South Sudan mission, please click here.

About the job

SIZING OF THE TEAM IN THE BASE: Expatriate : 5 / National : 13 / Total: 18

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

The MEAL Manager provides methodological support to all the program teams. S/he also guarantees the quality and the relevance of any monitoring activities, internal and external evaluations carried out on the mission, together with any recommendations and analysis provided. S/he is involved with lessons learned capitalisation. The MEAL Manager jointly supports the development of a MEAL strategy for the programs in terms of monitoring, evaluation and integration of any “cross-functional issues” (protection, accountability to affected populations, community participation, disability inclusion, etc.).

CHALLENGES:

• Access constraints due to security, remotness and natural disasters
• Multi-layered context with several triggers for humanitarian needs
• Decreasing funding landscape

PRIORITIES FOR THE FIRST 2-3 MONTHS:

• Supporting the restructuring of the team
• Supervision and improvement of the AAP mechanism
• Capacity development of the team
• Harmonizing existing tools with the Clusters and National standards to ensure consistency
• Development of lessons learnt library for programmatic and fundraising purposes
• Coordination with the humanitarian system in South Sudan

SECURITY CONSTRAINTS:

• Juba has security level 2 which represent a tense but moderate risk level. Selective incidents may trigger the implementation of enhanced security measures and thus reduced movements in townRoad blocks by regular army at night in some neighbourhoods
• Curfew with different scope in different neighbourhoods: currently in the close areas to the compound at 20:00, outside of this at 18:00.
• High inflation rate amid poor socio-economic situation in the country resulting high crime rate in Juba
• The situation in South Sudan is volatile at the moment, please document yourself before applying. Some organizations have reduced their expat presence in country accordingly. SI is adapting the set up in real time as context evolves

LIVING CONDITIONS:

• Juba base is composed of office & guesthouse
• guesthouse has several bungalows which have AC, cupboard, table, chair, bed with bednet, bathroom
• guesthouse premises has tukul equipped with satelite TV, treadmill
• equipped common kitchen, safe room
• at night standby driver available for movements outside base
• overnight at other UN or NGO bases with approval of Country Director
• various shops, restaurants, bars, gyms etc,. available in safe neighbourhoods

Living conditions in Upper Nile can be much more basic:
Renk: SI has its own office-guesthouse, which is small and needs further improvement. City electricity is sporadic, there is a generator and solar system for when it goes off (but solar needs increased). Connection to city water network in progress, but currently using bucket shower. Drinking water from SI SWAT (like most NGOs in the area). Few social distractions outside, but many humanitarian organizations present . Limited food diversity (most non-local goods need to be brought from Juba).
Malakal: SI is in the humanitarian hub in the UNMISS compound. Offices and guesthouses in prefab containers. Improvements in the last year with addition of kitchen and second bathroom. Few social distractions, but there is a cafeteria in the humanitarian hub and a bar in the UNMISS compound. Limited food diversity (anything non-local needs brought from Juba), can get some times e.g. chips and pizza at the cafeteria / UNMISS bar, but fresh vegetables are limited!

DIPLOMA: Statistics, Mathematics, International Relations, Political Science and similar

• 3-4 years experience in the humanitarian sector
• 0-2 years experience in a similar position

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MEAL activities, including proficiency in data collection tools and analysis
• Needs assessment tools development, data analysis and reporting, Kobo platform is an asset
• Accountability, developing tools for AAP, training of staff and data analysis
• Knowledge of the MEAL requirements for Institutional Donors (ECHO, EU, FCDO, USAID, OCHA, etc..)

TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:

• Adaptability and Problem-Solving
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Leadership and Team Management

LANGUAGES:

• Fluency in writing and speaking English (mandatory)
• Arabic desired

A salaried position:

According to experience, starting from EUR 2310 gross per month (2100 base salary + 10% annual leave allowance paid monthly) and a monthly Per Diem of USD 700.

SI also covers accommodation costs and travel expenses between the expatriate’s country of origin and the place of assignment.

Breaks: During the assignment, a system of alternation between work and time off is implemented at the rate of 7 working days every three months (with a USD 850 break allowance, allocated by Sl). To these breaks periods, SI grants one (1) additional rest day per month worked.

Insurance package: Expatriates benefit from an insurance package which refunds all healthcare expenses (including medical and surgical expenses, dental care and ophthalmological expenses, repatriation) and a welfare system including war risks. Essential vaccination and antimalarial treatment costs are refunded.