Overview
The MEAL Coordinator will lead the operationalization of the HER Project MEAL Plan, ensuring high-quality, harmonized, and accountable monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning systems across Sudan and Ethiopia. The role ensures that evidence, feedback, and learning inform adaptive management and reporting requirements.
Tasks Summary
- Lead the operationalization of the HER Project MEAL Plan.
- Coordinate the development, validation, and rollout of standardized MEAL tools.
- Ensure systematic tracking of outputs, outcomes, and cross-cutting indicators.
- Oversee baseline, midline, and end-line studies and periodic outcome monitoring exercises.
- Support country teams and partners to integrate qualitative methods.
- Conduct regular data quality assessments (DQAs) and verification visits.
- Coordinate the design, rollout, and monitoring of project-level Complaints and Feedback Mechanisms (CFMs).
- Ensure accountability systems are aligned with Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), AfD expectations, and consortium safeguarding commitments.
- Strengthen partner and field staff capacity to collect, analyze, respond to, and close feedback loops.
- Consolidate and analyze feedback and complaints data.
- Facilitate regular reflection and learning processes.
- Generate learning products.
- Support the CMU and Technical Working Groups to use evidence for adaptive management.
- Promote cross-country learning between Ethiopia and Sudan.
- Serve as the focal point for MEAL coordination across consortium partners.
- Provide technical guidance and hands-on support to partner MEAL staff.
- Contribute to Technical Working Groups (TWGs).
- Support the preparation of high-quality donor reports.
- Ensure compliance with AfD requirements, DRC MEAL standards, data protection policies, and ethical research principles.
- Maintain organized and auditable MEAL documentation, datasets, and evidence repositories.
- Lead or support the design and management of external evaluations and thematic studies.
- Ensure ethical standards, safeguarding, and do-no-harm principles are applied throughout evaluation processes.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in MEAL roles within humanitarian or development programmes.
- Demonstrated experience working in complex, displacement-affected, and conflict-affected contexts.
- Proven experience in consortium or multi-partner projects, preferably multi-country.
- Strong experience designing and managing gender-responsive and protection-sensitive MEAL systems.
- Experience with accountability mechanisms and community feedback systems.
- Prior experience with EU or AfD-funded projects is a strong asset.
Qualification Requirements
- Degree Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Health, Economics, or a related field (required).
- Postgraduate degrees are an added advantage.
- Certification in data, evaluation, analyses etc.
