MEAL Coordinator – East Africa
About the role
Coordinates monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning activities across ARCD programmes in East Africa, ensuring data quality, compliance, accountability, evidence-based reporting, and programme learning. The role is based at ARCD’s Tanzania Regional Office and requires travel across East Africa, Sudan, and Djibouti. Responsibilities: - Develop and maintain monitoring tools, checklists, indicators, and data collection instruments. - Conduct regular field monitoring visits and assess implementation against approved plans, indicators, timelines, quality benchmarks, and donor requirements. - Maintain output trackers and indicator performance tracking tables. - Verify the quality, completeness, consistency, and accuracy of programme and beneficiary data. - Track monitoring issues and corrective actions, and escalate significant discrepancies, delays, data-quality concerns, and compliance issues to Headquarters. - Build the capacity of field and programme staff in MEAL tools, data collection, documentation, and reporting. - Support baseline studies, needs assessments, mid-term reviews, final evaluations, post-implementation assessments, and operational research. - Contribute to project design by reviewing logical frameworks, results frameworks, indicators, and MEAL plans. - Document and communicate lessons learned, challenges, successful practices, and recommendations. - Establish and maintain complaints and feedback mechanisms accessible to programme beneficiaries. - Track complaints and corrective actions while escalating safeguarding concerns, fraud, serious misconduct, and significant programme-quality concerns. - Collect and enter MEAL information into approved systems including KoboToolbox, Apricot, and Odoo. - Conduct data-quality reviews and maintain organized MEAL documentation and records. - Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, project-specific, and other MEAL reports. - Provide verified beneficiary statistics, project progress information, indicators, and supporting evidence for donor reporting. - Coordinate with programme, project, partner, and field staff to ensure MEAL findings improve implementation. - Support project completion verification and provide closure findings to Headquarters. - Maintain the independence, objectivity, and integrity of MEAL findings. - Support emergency-response monitoring and reporting and undertake additional MEAL duties assigned by Headquarters. How to apply: Use this email subject line: MEAL Coordinator – East Africa – Your Name State clearly that you apply for the East Africa position, and include your current country of residence in your cover letter. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Send your updated CV and cover letter in English to jobs@africa-relief.org
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Monitoring and evaluation, data management, and research skills.
- Quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis skills.
- Field monitoring and data verification skills.
- Project design, implementation, and project-cycle knowledge.
- Strong reporting, documentation, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Microsoft Excel and general computer proficiency.
- Ability to use or learn KoboToolbox, Apricot, Odoo, and similar data-management systems.
- Strong written and spoken English.
- Ability to work with Headquarters, country offices, field teams, partners, beneficiaries, and stakeholders while maintaining MEAL independence.
- Ability to travel regularly across East Africa, Sudan, and Djibouti.
- Accountability, integrity, collaboration, ambition, and creativity.