Reference No:       REC/05/2025
Job title:  Senior MEAL Officer
Location:   Tigray (JEOP Nutrition Project) 
Reports to:     Health and Nutrition Manager 
Number of Posts     01 (One)
Gender    Only Female candidates are invited to Apply
Closing date:        August 06, 2025

About GOAL

GOAL’s mission is to work with the most vulnerable communities to help them respond to and recover from humanitarian crises, and to assist them to build transcendent solutions to mitigate poverty and vulnerability.

GOAL is a non-for profit organization that has been working in Ethiopia for over 30 years across all the region of the country towards ensuring the poorest and most vulnerable in our world and those affected by humanitarian crises have access to the fundamental rights of life, including but not limited to adequate shelter, food and livelihoods, water and sanitation, nutrition, healthcare and education. GOAL implements a range of multi-sectoral development, resilience, recovery and humanitarian responses Programmes by being sensitive to cross-cutting issues including gender, accountably, child protection, HIV/AIDS.

We envision a world where poverty no longer exist, where vulnerable communities are resilient, where barriers to wellbeing are removed and where everyone has equal rights and opportunities. GOAL Ethiopia’s main donors are Irish Aid, USAID/OFDA, EHF, ECHO and other private donors.

About the Position:

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ROLE•    Work to make sure MEAL data on indicators are well planned, understood by the field program team and implemented as per the donor and GOAL indicator definition and requirements, and more importantly drive adaptive management. The Senior MEAL Officer will directly report for JEOP Program Manager at the Area office and functionally report to the Country MEAL Manager. The incumbent will primarily lead the MEAL for JEOP 2.0, which is a USAID-funded, multi-year food security program targeting transiently food-insecure households in Ethiopia. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

Monitoring and reporting (30% of time) 
•    Organize and plan field level monitoring events and compile reports for managerial decision.
•    Take the lead role and assists field staff particularly front-line staff in developing regular data collection tools, field supervision checklists.
•    Ensure proper documentation is in place including filing project documents, indicators data sets, ToRs, assessment tools, formats, and reports.
•    Ensure the systems used to collect data on indicators and to generate relevant MEAL reports comply with established quality standards. 
•    Develop field/program/project data base systems and analyzing and interpreting data. 
•    Organizes participatory monitoring events along with the facilitators and team leaders, partners, and communities. 
•    Compiles regular field monitoring report including lessons and provide feedback for the project and his supervisor.
•    Collects and provides information and technical support in the preparation of quarterly or biannual reports.
•    Organize regular project review meetings and participate in panel monitoring. 
•    Assists sector senior officers in reviewing and revising project M&E plan and indicators as required. 
•    Develop and use simple and value-adding monitoring strategies and tools.
•    Identify best practices as well as opportunities for MEAL capacity building.
•    Prepare and share monthly project ITTs that are consistent and complete per the donor and organization standards
Information management (20% of time)
•    Take the lead role in setting-up appropriate data base system at field, project, and program level.
•    Ensure effectiveness and adequacy of systems to track flow of information on inputs utilization and program participation, including the process of beneficiary selection and project prioritization.
•    Provides information management support to action research initiatives being conducted in the woreda/Town.
•    Submits updated data set to the required sector officers and PM within the project and partners to update all different levels on program database on quarterly basis.
•    Maintains minimum set of M&E reference materials at project level in the field office. 
•    Update the projects information on regular basis. 
•    Lead on the analysis, interpretation and reporting of MEAL results. 
•    Identify and formulate MEAL findings, lessons learned and recommendations and avail results for decision-making processes and further project development.
•    Facilitate dissemination of lessons learnt across the GOAL team, partners, donors and other stakeholders as need arises.
•    Work closely with CLA and MEAL team of consortium organization to ensure integration and harmonization among consortiums members. 
•    Work with Country MEAL to ensure the project monitoring data is digitally tracked through the country dashboard and MIS
Evaluation and learning (20% of time)
•    Organize periodic assessment events and facilitate HO initiated surveys including PDMs and annual surveys.
•    Participate and organize major evaluation events happening in the field.
•    Prepare annual plans of major MEAL events and up-date the plan periodically.
•    Organize field level review meetings and participate in HO level major review meetings.
•    Ensure appropriate mechanisms that enhance learning to happen between projects and across sectors.
•    Initiate and facilitate quality program implementation through integration of learning and evaluation events across sectors/programs. Set-up field level information sharing mechanisms between sectors.
•    Develop project profile and summery progress matrix of PO project and regularly share to staff and MEAL department.
•     Participates on project performance review meeting at woreda level as required and evaluation exercises. 
•    Identify successful and promising activities, and develop and share learning products with the HO MEAL including learning outcome trackers (LoTs), Success Stories and Learning Briefs (LBs) 
Accountability (20% of time) 
•    Ensure that Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFMs), including suggestion boxes, help desks, hotline numbers, and in-person channels, are fully established, visibly marked, and functional at all JEOP implementation sites. Regularly assess functionality and accessibility, especially for women, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized groups.
•    Collect, compile, and analyze complaints, feedback, and suggestions from all implementation woredas using standardized JEOP FCRM data collection tool and ensure all CFM data is entered in Commcare. Ensure monthly submission of consolidated reports to the MEAL team for analysis and action.
•    Provide orientation and ongoing coaching to woreda-level CFM focal persons and Community Help Desk (CHD) volunteers on accountability principles, safe and ethical feedback handling, complaint logging, and follow-up procedures.
•    Organize regular information sessions at community level before, during, and after distributions to raise awareness about available feedback channels, response expectations, and the right to safely express concerns or complaints.
•    Conduct regular field monitoring visits to implementation woredas to observe the implementation of accountability standards, ensure feedback mechanisms are in place and used appropriately, and provide technical support as needed.
•    Identify recurring community concerns or operational gaps and learnings and work with program teams to document lessons learned. 
•    Ensure that all complaints, particularly sensitive or protection-related cases, are handled in line with Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) principles, including confidentiality, impartiality, and prompt referral to relevant focal points when required.
•    Handle other Accountability and Learning Activities per the guidance from the Accountability and Learning Advisor
Strengthen community Based approach (5% of time) 
•    Actively engage to empower community-based committee by enhancing their local development capacity and increasing their genuine participation in the development and humanitarian response program.
•    The MEAL officer will technically support field level sector officers, CDWs, ACDWs and supervisors in planning, ensuring quality programs.
•    Work with woreda government administrations and line offices by establishing woreda technical team (WTT)
•    Technically support and facilitate trainings, experience sharing visits, learning and sharing forms for CDWs, ACDWs and woreda technical team (WTT) in relation with CBAs
Capacity Buildings (10% of time) 
•    Assists the field sector officers and HO initiated MEAL capacity building plans.
•    Organizing MEAL related capacity building workshops/trainings to staff and woreda/implementing partners 
•    Compile and share project related data among field office staff
•    Conduct regular capacity gap assessment on monitoring and information management in partner organizations and organize training on identified gaps
•    Coach and mentor, the front-line staff CDWs on how to handle project information systems, database.
Performs other duties as assigned (5% of time)
•    Perform other duties provided by the MEAL Unit, Area Office and JEOP PM. 
Mainstreaming Issues: 
•    Work jointly with gender, safeguarding and protection personnel to ensure effective mainstreaming and well representation of sectors in the project cycle management and ensure M&E indicators are developed in the same manner. 
•    Work on increasing the sensitivity and awareness of staff towards gender, safeguarding, and child protection issues. 
•    Be a role model and provide feedback to encourage others in supporting equality and diversity principles, and the accommodation of other differences in the workplace.
Compliance issues: 
•    While conducting trainings, make sure the training report and the signed attendees list is formally addressed to the Grant unit for a central donor file. 

Job Requirements

Do you want to join an exciting organization that brings high level impact to the community and add value to your professional advancement?  Then join us if you have:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Sociology, Economics, Development Studies or another data-heavy field. Minimum of five years’ experience specifically working in a humanitarian context. Basic knowledge of statistics and experience working with complex data and building robust MEAL systems that drive learning and adaptive management.
Desirable quality, skill and competence
Desirable key qualities, Skills, and Competences: (list of qualities that are considered necessary for the specific post which are believed to be key to the success of the job holder in the specific post):
•    Proven capacity of management, leadership, and teamwork.
•    Experience in training staff and key community members, plus mentoring and building the capacity of local staff.
•    Excellent communication skills and a willingness to be respectful, kind, sensitive and empathize with all beneficiaries and their careers.
•    Computer literate.
•    Accountability & responsiveness within areas of responsibilities.

Note: This description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

REMUNERATION and BENEFITS: 
•    GOAL will pay a competitive basic salary based on the salary grading with addition benefits.
•    A chance to develop tangible experience.
•    Being part of a team who continue to make a real difference to the lives of the most vulnerable people.  

Commitments:

GOAL’s recruitment procedure is fair and transparent which is also in line with the organization’s commitment to its integrity, honesty and culture. GOAL is committed to ensure that, its performance complies with the terms and conditions of relevant agreements, applicable laws & regulations.

GOAL highly promotes Equality, diversity and inclusion and works with women and men, People with disabilities, and employees of various ages including youth, supports their empowerment and appreciates their achievements constantly. GOAL also encourages applications from diverse candidates including women, people with disabilities, people with diverse backgrounds, and youth to apply.
GOAL has zero tolerance to discrimination on the basis of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, race, economic status etc . we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

Hence, pre-employment background checks will be conducted, and employees are required to read, understand, sign and implement different polices including safe guarding and child protection policy, Protection from Sexual Exploitation and abuse policy, sexual harassment policy, code of conducts and any other rules and regulation of the organization. GOAL is strongly committed not to harm the people under its care. 
GOAL Ethiopia is committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety of people who involves in its work and demands all staff exhibit the highest commitment. GOAL Ethiopia will verify skills and commitment of the candidate in the assessment process and perform Background reference check.

You are welcome to include your sex (Male or female) and any disability issues in your CV (please note that this information will only be used to comply with affirmative action policy of the organization)

How to Apply

APPLICATION PROCEEDURE: 
Interested and qualified applicants need to submit ONLY once their non - returnable application with CV for one vacancy. The vacancy reference number along with the title & Duty station need to be written in the application letter

•    Applicants can directly apply online using THIS LINK

GOAL strongly encourages female candidates to apply!

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview and exam.
Shortlisted candidates will need to submit other supporting documents upon request at later stage.
GOAL is not able to contribute towards any costs incurred by candidates during the recruitment process.