Overview
The MEAL Officer works in close collaboration with program teams to optimize monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning capacities and opportunities of the IRC mission in Uganda. The role ensures high-quality programming for clients and supports global and country strategic ambitions.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on MEAL functions, ensuring high standards in data collection, documentation, analysis, reporting, and accountability.
- Lead systematic documentation of program progress, learning, best practices, and evidence.
- Represent IRC in technical meetings, coordination forums, and external engagements related to MEAL and Information Management.
- Foster strategic partnerships to strengthen data systems, learning, and accountability mechanisms.
- Champion access to and use of data for shared learning, decision-making, and program adaptations.
- Lead the implementation of MEAL systems in alignment with IRC strategies across the project cycle.
- Ensure systematic monitoring of outputs and beneficiaries, including registration, tracking, verification, reconciliation, and real-time performance tracking.
- Collaborate with program and MEAL staff to ensure data quality standards are met.
- Oversee digital data collection tools, ensuring timely updates, revisions, quality checks, and dashboard visualization.
- Conduct routine Data Quality Assessments (DQAs), audits, and spot checks.
- Undertake regular analysis of monitoring data and facilitate real-time program adaptation.
- Produce high-quality reports and dashboards highlighting key findings, trends, risks, and recommendations.
- Document and share learning from monitoring findings.
- Lead and manage baseline, midline, endline surveys, and external evaluations.
- Develop evaluation frameworks, tools, methodologies, and Terms of Reference (ToRs).
- Supervise enumerators and data collection teams during evaluation exercises.
- Ensure evaluation findings are documented, disseminated, and translated into action plans.
- Manage evaluation data cleaning, analysis, and reporting processes.
- Promote and institutionalize participatory monitoring approaches.
- Facilitate community reflection sessions, feedback dialogues, and participatory review meetings.
- Ensure community voices inform program design, implementation, and adaptation.
- Support community-led monitoring mechanisms.
- Oversee documentation and tracking of client feedback through the Client Feedback Registry (CFR).
- Maintain updated feedback databases and ensure timely data entry and analysis.
- Produce monthly feedback analysis reports.
- Lead onsite discussions to develop and monitor action plans responding to client feedback.
- Strengthen capacity of project teams on accountability, safeguarding, and client responsiveness.
- Support development and dissemination of accountability materials.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and performance monitoring to ensure high-quality outputs.
- Build capacity of MEAL and program teams in data management, reporting, accountability, and knowledge management.
- Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and training of MEAL Assistants, Data Officers, and field enumerators.
- Foster an inclusive, respectful, and high-performing team environment.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in MEAL, data management, or related roles.
- Demonstrated experience supervising technical staff (Data Officer/MEAL Assistants).
- Proven experience managing baseline/endline surveys and evaluations.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Information Management, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or related technical field (additional experience may substitute).
