Senior MEAL Specialist (RISE Project)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Monitoring and Data Collection

• Support routine monitoring and data collection activities through development and use of monitoring tools, field monitoring visits, data verification, beneficiary tracking and indicator measurement across project interventions.
• Support development and refinement of monitoring tools and data collection approaches.
• Conduct regular field monitoring visits across project locations.
• Support beneficiary verification and activity monitoring.
• Ensure sex, age, and disability-disaggregated data are collected where relevant.
• Identify monitoring gaps and provide recommendations.

Data management and quality assurance

• Conduct data quality assurance activities, including data validation, verification, cleaning, consistency checks and documentation review, ensuring programme data meet quality standards and donor requirements.
• Conduct routine data review and validation.
• Support data cleaning and database management.
• Maintain organized records of monitoring evidence.
• Support Data Quality Assessments (DQAs).
• Ensure compliance with data protection principles.

Program reporting and analysis

• Support data management, analysis and visualization by consolidating datasets, generating performance summaries, preparing dashboards and providing analysis to support programme teams and management decisions.
• Analyze monitoring data and identify trends.
• Prepare tables, summaries and visualizations.
• Provide MEAL inputs for donor reports and internal reviews.
• Support preparation of programme dashboards and performance updates.

Accountability and Learning

• Support Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms by monitoring feedback and complaints systems, conducting beneficiary satisfaction assessments, and ensuring community feedback contributes to programme improvement.
• Support assessments, evaluations, learning activities and reporting processes, including baseline/endline data collection, PDM, after-action reviews, lessons learned documentation

Capacity strengthening

• Provide technical support and coaching to project staff, field teams and consortium partners on MEAL tools, data collection methodologies, reporting requirements and data quality standards.
• Provide coaching and technical support to field teams and partner organizations.
• Support MEAL-related training sessions.
• Assist partners in improving data collection and reporting practices.

Consortium MEAL coordination

• Support consortium MEAL coordination by working with partners to collect, review, consolidate and organize programme data and reports according to agreed standards and timelines.
• Support use of harmonized indicators, data collection tools, reporting processes and information management systems across all consortium partners, ensuring consistent performance monitoring, data quality and timely consolidation of project results.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Information Management, Public Health, Economics, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in MEAL, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, or information management in humanitarian or development programmes, including:
• Experience supporting multi-sector humanitarian projects, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience working with local partners and field teams.
• Experience supporting donor-funded projects.
• Extensive traveling is required because this position needs to be familiar with context of all project locations and has to provide close supervision and support to field staff.
• Need to cope with diverse needs, culture and demanding nature of the job.
• Knowledge in monitoring and evaluation approaches, results-based management, indicator tracking and reporting, data collection methodologies, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Experience using digital data collection tools, i.e. Kobo
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Good facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple teams and partners.
• Good report writing and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex emergency context.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only