MEAL Officer

About the role

The MEAL Officer will support the Strengthening Climate Resilience through the Integrated Landscape Project by monitoring activities, collecting performance data, and ensuring accountability mechanisms are in place. Working closely with the field team and data collectors, the officer will help generate learning insights and produce regular reports.

Key responsibilities

• Finalize and operationalize the MEAL plan, IPTT, SOPs and align indicators with the project logical framework.
• Develop and maintain MEAL toolkits such as PIRS, Action Tracker, Feedback Tracker and Quality Benchmarks.
• Lead database design, digital data collection (Kobo/ODK), data‑management pipelines and Power BI dashboards for near real‑time monitoring.
• Establish Data Quality Assurance (DQA) procedures, conduct spot checks, back‑checks and verification sampling.
• Oversee routine monitoring cycles, ensuring data completeness, timeliness and disaggregation by gender, age and vulnerability groups.
• Supervise project progress in intervention kebeles, triangulate monthly reports and identify data quality gaps.

Required profile

• BA/BSc in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Rural Development, Economics (advanced degree preferred).
• Minimum 3 years MEAL experience in livelihoods, economic empowerment or market‑systems programmes; at least 2 years on food‑security projects.
• Experience working in pastoral contexts, preferably the Afar region, and fluency in the Afar language.
• Excellent report writing and English proficiency.

Required skills

• Kobo / ODK digital data‑collection tools.
• Data‑management systems and pipeline development.
• Power BI dashboard creation.
• Database design and DQA methodology.