Overview
The MEAL Officer provides hands-on support and leads on specific MEAL activities, including designing and implementing a robust MEAL system, conducting evaluation studies, and contributing to reporting and learning processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development and implementation of quality program monitoring and evaluation systems, frameworks, methodologies, tools, analysis and reporting.
- Support quality baseline, midterm and final evaluation studies.
- Continuously update and verify that projects’ logframes and indicators are set on PRIME.
- Play an active role in maintaining solid data, and support streamlined systems and processes for capturing program data.
- Engage with MEAL Manager and MEAL team in compiling and verifying data for CSP and other Country Office reporting.
- Forecast MEAL budgets.
- Lead on the process to develop, use and monitor actions related to project quality benchmarks for specific projects.
- Lead quality accountability mechanisms, processes and practice.
- Support analysis and research to inform program planning and design.
- Contribute to SCI global monitoring and reporting as required.
- Lead on specific project learning processes.
- Build program and partner staff capacities on MEAL.
- Promote the participation of children in project monitoring, evaluation, research and learning processes.
- Contribute to donor proposals with MEAL related inputs.
- Ensure gender sensitive, inclusive and participatory processes across MEAL components.
- Any other tasks as required by the line manager within the MEAL function.
Required Experience
- 3-5 years of monitoring and evaluation experience development contexts with NGOs.
- Experience with INGOs is preferred.
- Experience with research methods and data management and analysis in development programming.
- Experience with child rights programming and/or one of priority areas of Save the Children: education, child protection, child poverty, health.
- Experience in evaluation design and management.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent internal consultation and liaison skills; facilitation and coaching skills.
- Excellent analytical and creative abilities with strong results orientation.
- Experience in developing tools and methodologies to and with children.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in social science, economics, or relevant fields;
- post graduate level qualification in social science is preferred.
