Role overview
What you'll be stepping into
The MEAL Officer will be responsible for the effective implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system for DRC’s Food Systems and Economic Self-Reliance Project.
The role will ensure systematic monitoring, quality data collection, analysis, reporting, accountability, and learning to generate credible evidence for decision-making, adaptive management, and donor reporting.
The position holder will also provide MEAL support to project staff and implementing partners, ensuring credible evidence of results, strengthening data systems, and supporting evidence-based decision-making, adaptive management, and donor compliance.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. Monitoring, Data Collection and Quality Assurance
Implement and maintain the project MEAL framework, indicators, tools, and reporting systems.
Monitor and verify activities and results reported by the project and implementing partners.
Conduct field monitoring, spot checks, assessments, and outcome monitoring.
Lead the design, deployment, and management of digital data collection tools while ensuring data quality, accuracy, and completeness.
Clean, analyse, and validate data, and verify partner-reported results against source documents and field evidence.
Conduct routine data quality assessments, spot checks, and verification of partner-reported data.
Follow up on identified data quality gaps and ensure appropriate corrective action.
2. Performance and Results Tracking
Maintain project indicator tracking systems and monitor progress against established targets.
Track key project results from activity through to outcome level.
Monitor partner performance against agreed milestones and flag gaps requiring action.
Prepare dashboards, performance summaries, and analysis to inform programme and partner decisions.
Analyse performance trends and identify areas of underperformance, emerging risks, and opportunities for corrective action.
3. Accountability, Learning and Adaptive Management
Coordinate monitoring and analysis of feedback and complaints mechanisms, ensuring timely documentation, referral, follow-up, and closure.
Use feedback and complaints findings to inform programme improvements.
Support After Action Reviews, reflection, and learning activities.
Document success stories, good practices, lessons learned, and evidence of change.
Use monitoring and feedback findings to support programme improvement and adaptive management.
Facilitate routine reflection on monitoring findings with project teams and partners and track agreed actions.
4. Partner Support and Reporting
Provide technical MEAL support to private-sector partners and other implementing actors on indicator definitions, data collection, reporting, data quality, and the use of MEAL findings.
Support partners and project teams to use MEAL data for decision-making.
Participate in partner monitoring, assessments, and verification visits.
Contribute to timely internal, donor, and learning reports.
5. Data Management and Compliance
Maintain secure, accurate, and up-to-date project databases and records.
Ensure proper filing, storage, and archiving of project data.
Ensure compliance with DRC MEAL standards, donor requirements, safeguarding, PSEA, confidentiality, and data protection principles.
6. Evaluation
Support the planning and implementation of baseline, mid-term, endline, and other project assessments and evaluations.
Support data collection, analysis, report writing, and dissemination of evaluation findings.
About You
To be successful in this role, you should have at least five (5) years of relevant experience in MEAL/M&E, data management, or programme monitoring, preferably within livelihoods, climate adaptation, market systems, environmental protection, social cohesion, or related humanitarian/development programmes.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Development Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Sciences, Information Management, Data Science, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis, and reporting.
Experience using digital data collection platforms, particularly KoboToolbox/ODK.
Experience in data cleaning, validation, quality assurance, and database management.
Good proficiency in Power BI and Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables and data analysis.
Experience developing and managing indicator tracking tools and analysing programme performance data.
Strong analytical, communication, and report-writing skills.
Ability to work independently in remote and field-based settings and undertake frequent travel.
Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Strong attention to detail.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Strong organisational skills.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
Postgraduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation.
Knowledge of languages spoken in the project implementation areas.
Experience working with local partners, informal workers, or local government.
DRC Core Competencies
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:
Striving for Excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
Taking the Lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
Demonstrating Integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.
What DRC Offers
Contract Length: 12 months
Band: H2
Duty Station: Imvepi, Moyo
Expected Start Date: October 2026
Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for national employees.
For more information, applicants should refer to the DRC vacancies page.
Application Process
All applicants must:
Upload a cover letter.
Upload an updated CV of no more than four (4) pages.
Submit all application documents in English.
Applications sent by email will not be considered.
Closing Date: 13 September 2026
How to apply