MEAL Officer - Sujawal Verified listing

1. Monitoring & Data Management
   • Develop and implement monitoring plans in accordance with the project's results framework and work plan.
   • Design and maintain tools for data collection, verification, and analysis.
   • Monitor project indicators, targets, outputs, and outcomes related to the skills development component.
   • Conduct regular field monitoring visits to training centers to verify project activities and data accuracy.
   • Ensure timely collection, validation, compilation, and management of project data.
   • Maintain project databases and ensure data quality, consistency, confidentiality, and integrity.
2. Evaluation & Quality Assurance
   • Support baseline, endline, post-training assessments, and other evaluation exercises.
   • Conduct routine data quality assessments (DQAs) and verification exercises.

Monitor the quality of vocational training delivery

• against project standards and indicators.
• Identify implementation gaps and provide recommendations for improving project performance.
• Track learner attendance, retention, completion, certification, and toolkit distribution records.

2. Reporting
   • Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and final MEAL reports.
   • Compile monitoring findings and share analytical reports with the Project Manager.
   • Develop dashboards, summaries, and performance tracking reports.
   • Support preparation of donor reports through verified data and evidence.
3. Accountability & Feedback Mechanism
   • Establish and manage beneficiary feedback and complaint response mechanisms.
   • Ensure complaints, feedback, and suggestions are properly documented, analyzed, and addressed.
   • Promote transparency, accountability, and beneficiary participation throughout project implementation.
   • Ensure confidentiality and appropriate referral of sensitive complaints in accordance with organizational policies.
4. Learning & Knowledge Management
   • Document best practices, success stories, case studies, challenges, and lessons learned.
   • Facilitate periodic learning and reflection sessions with project staff.
   • Generate evidence to support programme improvement and adaptive management.
   • Support dissemination of project achievements and learning products.
5. Capacity Building & Compliance

• Train project staff on MEAL tools, data collection methodologies, reporting requirements, and data quality standards.
• Provide technical support to field teams on the use of monitoring tools and reporting templates.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based planning and continuous learning among project staff.

Ensure compliance with Muslim Hands' MEAL

• Framework, donor reporting requirements, safeguarding policies, Child Protection Policy, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), and organizational Code of Conduct.
• Support internal and external monitoring missions, audits, evaluations, and donor visits.

Perform any other duty assigned by the Project Manager.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Economics, Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL), preferably with NGOs, INGOs, UN agencies, or donor-funded development projects.
• Demonstrated experience in designing monitoring systems, data collection tools, indicator tracking, and reporting.
• Strong understanding of Results-Based Management (RBM), Logical Framework Approach (LogFrame), and performance monitoring.
• Experience conducting data quality assessments, field monitoring, surveys, and evaluations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Suite, and digital data collection platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK, or CommCare) will be an advantage.
• Strong analytical, report writing, presentation, and data visualization skills.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in English, Urdu, and Sindhi.

Willingness to travel extensively within the project area.