Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in international development, International Relations, Sociology, Statistics, MEAL or in a related field.
  
• 5-7 years of relevant field-based MEAL experience in coordinating or managing light to moderately complex projects required, preferably with an international NGO.
  
• Experience communicating with communities and implementing accountability mechanisms.
  

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the project MEAL system, in coordination with the MEAL Coordinator, ensuring tools, processes, roles, and standards are clearly defined and consistently applied across all sectors and project sites.
  
• Track sector performance against monthly, semi-annual, annual, and life-of-award targets, regularly analyzing indicator progress, project milestones, quality expectations, and implementation gaps to support timely management decisions.
  
• Develop, adapt, field-test, and roll out project-specific MEAL tools, including digital data collection tools in CommCare, while promoting appropriate ICT4D solutions to improve data quality, efficiency, and reporting.
  
• Ensure timely, complete, accurate, and consistent collection, verification, analysis, and storage of MEAL data, including beneficiary data, in line with CRS responsible data standards and ethical data management requirements.
  
• Coordinate needs assessments, market assessments, baseline and end-line surveys, post-activity monitoring, household-level data collection, and related analysis, ensuring findings are documented and used to strengthen program quality.
  
• Support donor and CRS reporting by tracking reporting requirements and deadlines, compiling MEAL inputs, preparing monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annual, and final report contributions, and providing evidence-based analysis to Program Managers and the Emergency Coordinator.
  
• Strengthen accountability to affected populations by supporting accessible feedback and response mechanisms, ensuring beneficiary and community input is documented, analyzed, shared, and used to inform program adjustments.