MEAL Officer - SRM Rwamwanja

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develop and administer digital monitoring tools to track project outputs, outcomes and key graduation indicators, in line with the project logframe, graduation pathway, MEAL plan and donor requirements.
• Maintain an accurate household-level beneficiary database, capturing household vulnerability profiles, support received, livelihood activities, savings, productive assets and progress against agreed graduation criteria.
• Conduct routine household and field monitoring to track changes in graduation indicators and identify households requiring additional support or referral.
• Support and coordinate baseline, outcome monitoring, endline and other project assessments, including household surveys and tracer exercises, to measure progress towards graduation outcomes.
• Clean, analyse and consolidate monitoring data and regularly update the Indicator Tracking Table, beneficiary database and project dashboards to support timely reporting and programme decision-making.
• Conduct periodic Data Quality Assessments and monitoring visits, document data quality and implementation gaps, and work with programme teams to implement corrective actions.

Project Learning and Knowledge Management

• Support implementation of the project learning agenda by analysing monitoring and assessment findings to identify what is working, what is not, and factors influencing household progression towards graduation.
• Facilitate routine reflection and learning sessions with programme teams and partners to review evidence, identify implementation challenges and agree on actions for programme adaptation.
• Document and analyse household graduation journeys, success factors, barriers and emerging lessons, including differences in outcomes across gender, age, location and household vulnerability characteristics.
• Develop and maintain a structured MEAL knowledge repository containing datasets, reports, assessment findings, learning products, success stories and other project evidence.
• Produce concise learning briefs, case studies, success stories and evidence summaries to support programme improvement, donor reporting, resource mobilisation and wider organisational learning.
• Support dissemination of project evidence and learning through learning events, technical working groups and other relevant platforms, ensuring that lessons generated from the project are shared and applied.

Humanitarian Accountability/Accountability to Project Beneficiaries

• Ensure participating households are adequately informed about programme objectives, selection criteria, graduation pathway, support package, duration and participant responsibilities.
• Support accessible feedback and complaints mechanisms through which households can raise concerns about targeting, support received, staff conduct or other aspects of programme implementation.
• Conduct periodic participant feedback and satisfaction assessments to assess