Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a MEAL Officer to support the implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems for assigned projects. The successful candidate will work closely with program teams, operations, and MEAL teams to design, implement, and improve information tools, processes, and products, ensuring institutional quality standards for data quality, protection, and ethical use.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement MEAL plans, track indicators, and monitor project activities according to logical frameworks, measurement plans, donor proposals, and requirements.
- Design, adapt, and manage quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, such as digital forms, surveys, service records, attendance lists, interviews, and focus groups.
- Configure, update, and supervise data capture platforms like Kobo Toolbox, CommCare, or other institutional tools.
- Ensure inclusion of disaggregated variables (sex, age, disability, geographic location, etc.) to analyze equity, inclusion, coverage, and potential access barriers.
- Periodically monitor indicator progress, identifying deviations, delays, information gaps, and programmatic risks.
- Consolidate, clean, validate, and maintain up-to-date databases, guaranteeing consistency, traceability, completeness, controlled access, and information protection.
- Implement data quality controls, identify duplicates, outliers, inconsistencies, and registration errors, and support DQA exercises, audits, and donor reviews.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative information to identify trends, results, coverage gaps, challenges, unexpected outcomes, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop dashboards, tracking matrices, visualizations, periodic reports, and MEAL inputs for decision-making, narrative reports, proposals, and communication with donors.
- Support evaluations, accountability mechanisms for affected populations, and learning processes; train and accompany program teams, enumerators, and field personnel on tools, protocols, informed consent, confidentiality, and evidence use.
Requirements:
- University degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Psychology, Economics, Administration, Engineering, Systems, Public Health, International Development, or related fields.
- At least two years of professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, information management, research, project tracking, or related functions.
- Experience in humanitarian organizations, development, social research, or social project implementation. Experience in contexts of human mobility, protection, childhood, education, health, gender-based violence, or community development is valued.
- Experience in designing, applying, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data collection tools.
- Intermediate or advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including dynamic tables, formulas, validations, consolidation, and database analysis.
- Experience with data capture platforms like CommCare, Kobo Toolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of concepts and processes for result-based monitoring, logical frameworks, indicators, baselines, evaluation, data quality, and information management.
- Familiarity with Accountability to Affected Populations, community feedback mechanisms, data protection, and 'do no harm' principles.
- Ability to analyze information, develop clear reports, and communicate technical findings to non-specialized audiences.
- Planning, organization, attention to detail, teamwork, and deadline compliance skills.
- Availability for field deployments according to project operational needs.
- Commitment to humanitarian principles, protection of affected populations, confidentiality, and IRC institutional values.