1. Job Purpose
The Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer will lead the design, implementation, and oversight of a robust MEAL system for the EmpowHER Project. The role ensures high-quality data collection, analysis, reporting, accountability, and learning to track progress toward improving family planning services and reduce unsafe abortion. The Senior MEAL Officer will support evidence-based decision-making, adaptive management, donor reporting, consortium learning, and accountability to communities and stakeholders.
Duty Station: Addis Ababa (with frequent travel to Oromia, Sidama, Amhara and Tigray Regions)
2. Key Roles and Responsibilities
A. MEAL System Design and Implementation:
- Design and implement the project MEAL framework, ensuring strict alignment with the project Theory of Change, Results Framework, and Global Affairs Canada (GAC) donor compliance standards
- Develop and refine indicators, logframes, data collection tools, dashboards, and reporting templates.
- Ensure integration of MEAL across capacity strengthening, service delivery, dialogue, advocacy, and social norms change components, as well as the alignment with the FGAE MEAL system.
B. Data Collection, Quality Assurance & Analysis:
- Coordinate routine quantitative and qualitative data collection across all project pillars.
- Ensure data quality assurance (DQA) through field verification, audits, spot checks, and validation protocols.
- Manage project databases, including secure storage, cleaning, and analysis of datasets.
- Conduct trend analysis, outcome tracking, and learning-oriented data interpretation.
C. Measurement of Social Norms Change:
- Support development of tools to measure the project progress.
- Monitor community norm shifts, risk factors, and protective behaviors.
D. Monitoring Service Delivery & Survivor Support:
- Monitor SRH, GBV, HP prevention and response services, including referral systems.
- Track quality of survivor-centered care, trauma-informed services, and SGBV case management.
- Support monitoring of health facility readiness, provider competency, and service uptake.
- Oversee tracking of referral pathways linking health, justice, and social welfare.
E. Accountability, Feedback & Community Engagement:
- Lead implementation of accountability and feedback mechanisms, including complaint response systems.
- Support social accountability assessments and community feedback loops.
- Ensure participatory MEAL, engaging adolescents, girls, youth, parents, and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).
- Promote ethical, safe, and survivor-centered data collection practices.
F. Evaluations, Research & Learning:
- Coordinate baseline, midline, and endline evaluations as appropriate.
- Support rapid assessments, social accountability studies, and learning reviews.
- Lead documentation of case studies, success stories, best practices, and lessons learned.
- Contribute to operational research, knowledge products, and dissemination of evidence.
G. Reporting, Knowledge Management & Donor Compliance:
- Prepare high-quality MEAL reports for internal use, donor reporting, and learning.
- Contribute to progress reports, annual reports, dashboards, and learning briefs.
- Ensure compliance with donor reporting requirements, data protection standards, and safeguarding policies.
- Support preparation of evidence-based advocacy materials.
H. Capacity Strengthening & Partner Support:
- Build MEAL capacity of project staff, consortium partners, CSOs, and government counterparts.
- Train field teams on data collection tools, ethical research, digital systems, and learning approaches.
- Provide mentorship and supportive supervision to regional and woreda-level MEAL focal persons.
