Overview
The Consortium Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager will provide technical oversight for the design, implementation, and continuous strengthening of a harmonised consortium wide MEAL system across all four consortium partners. The role is responsible for ensuring a harmonised, high quality MEAL system across all consortium partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the consortium-wide MEAL framework, MEAL plan, and indicator performance tracking table.
- Ensure harmonised MEAL approaches, methodologies, indicators, and reporting systems are implemented consistently across consortium partners.
- Chair the consortium MEAL Technical Working Group (TWG).
- Interface directly with the MEAL Managers of partner organisations.
- Oversee routine monitoring, data quality assessments, and field verification.
- Consolidate, quality assure, and validate partner MEAL data for ECHO reporting.
- Ensure required disaggregation of data.
- Ensure responsible data management, data protection, and information sharing protocols.
- Drive the design, rollout, and adoption of consortium ICT4D systems.
- Lead consortium integration with inter-agency data systems.
- Manage ICT4D consultancies and vendors.
- Ensure functioning and harmonised community feedback and response mechanisms.
- Promote accountability to affected populations.
- Coordinate the planning, design, and implementation of baseline, mid-term, endline evaluation studies.
- Lead internal monitoring surveys.
- Lead lessons-learned and after-action reviews.
- Document case studies, success stories, and evidence products.
- Contribute MEAL sections, annexes, and consolidated data to donor reports.
- Contribute SCI CO level reporting.
- Support audits, verification missions, and donor monitoring visits.
- Represent the consortium in inter-agency MEAL and information management forums.
- Build MEAL capacity of Consortium partner MEAL staffs.
- Promote and ensure compliance with Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding, PSEA, and Gender Equality policies.
- Ensure all project staff and partners are aware of SCI’s safeguarding principles and reporting mechanisms.
- Ensure all project activities adhere to SCI and donor compliance frameworks.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of MEAL experience in humanitarian or development programmes, including at least 2 years in a management or coordination role.
- Demonstrated experience leading MEAL in a consortium or multi-partner programme.
- Experience chairing or facilitating technical working groups and coordinating with peer MEAL Managers across agencies.
- Strong knowledge of ECHO or comparable institutional donor MEAL and reporting requirements.
- Proven ability to design and manage digital data collection and ICT4D systems.
- Strong data analysis and visualisation skills.
- Working knowledge of responsible data management and data protection principles in humanitarian settings.
- Experience establishing and managing community feedback and response mechanisms.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage competing deadlines, and deliver to donor reporting timelines.
- Ability and willingness to travel within Afghanistan.
- Experience with inter-agency information management systems, ICT4D vendor or consultancy management, and data standards such as the Washington Group questions or CPIMS+ is desirable.
- Previous experience in returnee, displacement, or border response programming with INGOs, NNGOs, or UN agencies in Afghanistan is desirable.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, social sciences, information management, data science, development studies, or a related field; a Master’s degree in a relevant field is an advantage.
