# Senior MEAL Officer **Company**: Venezuelan Organisation **Location**: Caracas **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Social Care **Industry**: Non-Profit **Apply**: https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Caracas-Venezuela/Oficial-Senior-de-MEAL_JR00005285?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_862ce6a0-549 ## Description The Senior MEAL Officer will lead the technical quality, coordination, and strengthening of Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) systems for a portfolio of projects or a programmatic operation. They will ensure that interventions have solid results frameworks, measurable indicators, functional monitoring mechanisms, quality information, timely analysis, and effective learning and accountability processes. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the planning, implementation, and follow-up of MEAL systems for projects, ensuring alignment with institutional standards, logical frameworks, measurement plans, donor commitments, and programmatic priorities. - Design and update MEAL plans, indicator matrices, monitoring plans, data collection calendars, evaluation strategies, and learning mechanisms. - Define and ensure the technical quality of indicators, including calculation methodology, baselines, targets, verification sources, reporting frequency, disaggregations, and responsible parties. - Provide technical advice for program design and proposals, contributing to theories of change, logical frameworks, results, indicators, targets, assumptions, budgets, and MEAL evaluation plans. - Lead and supervise baseline studies, follow-ups, final evaluations, satisfaction surveys, result analysis, performance reviews, and other special studies. - Supervise the design and use of quantitative and qualitative data collection tools, ensuring methodological rigor, accessibility, cultural relevance, informed consent, and data protection. - Supervise data analysis and the development of dashboards, performance reports, coverage analysis, visualizations, and management products for program teams, leadership, and donors. - Establish and supervise data quality assurance processes, including consistency checks, integrity controls, source reviews, audits, DQA, and follow-up of improvement plans. - Ensure the secure management of databases and sensitive information, complying with confidentiality protocols, anonymization, restricted access, data retention, and safe use of devices and digital platforms. **Requirements:** - University degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Psychology, Economics, Engineering, Systems, Public Health, International Development, Administration, Political Sciences, or related areas. - Desirable postgraduate, diploma, or specialized training in monitoring and evaluation, research, project management, data analysis, international development, public health, statistics, or related areas. - At least four years of progressive professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, information management, accountability, learning, or program management. - Demonstrable experience leading MEAL systems for humanitarian, development, protection, health, education, human mobility, child protection, gender-based violence, food security, or other relevant sectors. - Experience in designing logical frameworks, theories of change, MEAL plans, indicators, baselines, evaluations, research methodologies, and analysis plans. - Experience in preparing or reviewing technical and narrative reports for donors, including tracking indicators, targets, results, and verification sources. - Experience leading data quality processes, audits, DQA, database validation, and development of improvement plans. - Experience in designing and implementing accountability mechanisms, community participation, feedback, satisfaction surveys, and use of AAP data for program adaptation. - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with data analysis, visualization, or management tools. Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, SPSS, Stata, R, Python, SQL, CommCare, Kobo Toolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, or similar platforms is valued. - Solid knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, sampling, descriptive analysis, information triangulation, result interpretation, and communication of findings. - Ability to translate complex data into practical recommendations, executive reports, visualizations, and understandable messages for technical and non-technical audiences. - Experience facilitating trainings, workshops, learning sessions, or capacity-building processes for multidisciplinary teams. - Demonstrated technical leadership, planning, coordination, priority management, work under pressure, and interpersonal communication skills. - Professional proficiency in Spanish. Proficiency in English, particularly for reviewing technical documentation, institutional standards, and communication with regional or global teams, is valued. - Availability for field travel according to project operational needs. - Commitment to humanitarian principles, protection of affected populations, equity, inclusion, prevention of exploitation and sexual abuse, child safeguarding, and data protection. ## Skills ### Required - Monitoring and Evaluation - Data Analysis - Project Management - Accountability - Learning - Spanish ### Nice to have - English - Power BI - Tableau - SPSS - Stata - R - Python - SQL --- Source: [Apply at theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Caracas-Venezuela/Oficial-Senior-de-MEAL_JR00005285?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)