# Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Lead

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Non-profit

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Lead to serve as a member of the Programme's Senior Management Team. The MEAL Lead will be responsible for developing and implementing the programme's MEAL strategy in accordance with organisational, FCDO, and international best-practice requirements.

The MEAL Lead will develop and manage a monitoring and evaluation system across all programme components that leverages qualitative and quantitative methods to measure progress and evaluate impact against the programme's five interlinked outcomes. The postholder will ensure that results from monitoring, the Learning Outcomes and Quality Assessment, and lesson learning systematically feed into programme implementation through adaptive management principles.

The MEAL Lead will communicate information obtained through monitoring and evaluation activities to programme staff and external stakeholders, including FCDO, the Ministry of General Education and Instruction, and sector coordination bodies, to enable informed decision-making. The postholder will produce monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports as required and ensure all data is disaggregated by gender and disability status.

The MEAL Lead will provide strategic and technical leadership for Outcome 4, guiding the programme’s evidence agenda and ensuring the Research and MIS Data teams deliver high-quality, decision-ready outputs. The postholder will lead the design and delivery of the national LOQA and oversee the programme MIS and data governance, including partner data integration, validation, and development of practical dashboards and analysis products.

The MEAL Lead will train and supervise a team of MEAL staff to collect high-quality programme data and contribute to staff and partner capacity building on MEAL best practices.

**Requirements:**

- Advanced degree (master's or doctorate) from an accredited university in social science, international development, evaluation research, statistics, education, or a related discipline.

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning for education programming in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

- Demonstrated experience with adaptive management approaches and evidence-based programming, including use of data for programme decision-making and course correction.

- Significant previous experience carrying out monitoring and evaluation activities in hard-to-reach areas, preferably for FCDO-funded accountable grants or similar donor-funded programmes.

- Experience with learning assessments, education data systems, and national-level diagnostic studies such as learning outcomes assessments.

- Fluency in English is required.

## Skills

### Required
- monitoring and evaluation
- education programming
- adaptive management
- data analysis
- report writing
- team management

### Nice to have
- learning assessments
- education data systems
- national-level diagnostic studies
- foundational literacy and numeracy measurement
- cash transfer interventions
- accelerated education
- catch-up learning methodologies
- teacher training components

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