Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer 

If you share our values and believe that children’s lives should not be torn apart by war, we want to hear from you.

• Department:  Programme Quality    
• Contract Type: Fixed Term (6 months contract) with possibility of renewal
• Place of Work: Sana’a, Yemen    
• Working Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week)
• Reports to: Programme Quality and Development Manager    
• Salary Range: As per organisational salary scale

About us

War Child, the charity for children affected by war. We are a specialist charity for children in conflict, delivering high-impact programmes that are rebuilding lives across 14 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and put them at the centre of the solution - from reintegrating children formerly associated with armed groups and armed forces (CAAFAG) in the Central African Republic to reuniting children with their families in Afghanistan. We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realised through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organisations like War Child, governments and key decision makers.

Our values

Bold

We use our passion and creativity to deliver high quality evidence-based work designed to maximise our beneficial impact for children in conflict.

Accountable to children

Children can rely on us to respond to their voices and to treat them with respect and dignity.

Transparent

We expect to be held to account by our supporters and beneficiaries and we respond with openness and honesty

Committed to each other

We support each other and our partners to achieve ambitious goals and to be the best we can be.  We are honest and open with each other, sharing our successes and confronting our challenges.

Your role

The MEAL Officer’s role is to support in the monitoring of outputs, outcomes and impact as per the project requirements and WC standards. S/he will also support the country and regional teams in developing high-quality monitoring, evaluation and learning plans for War Child in Yemen. S/he will document lessons learned and best practices and ensure they are reflected in programme design and implementation. In addition, the MEAL officer will support regional and global colleagues in building the capacity of War Child staff and partners in Yemen, in the field of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning.  

Your responsibilities

Monitoring

• Support the Program development and Quality Advisor (PDQA) in designing tools for data collection on child protection, PSS, livelihoods and education programmes, which are consistent with the project log frames.
• Organise and conduct individual project quantitative and qualitative data collection in collaboration with Yemen Programme Manager (PM)/ PDQA advisor.
• Work with project staff including implementing partner staff to maintain quality of data collected.
• Participate in data collection and documentation from key informant interviews with community members and beneficiaries, representatives within the civil society and the government sector, and focus group discussions. 
• Compile, validate, and report on monitoring data from Yemen on a quarterly and annual basis for senior management

Evaluation 

• Support the effective implementation of WCAs programme evaluation plans. 
• Support project/programme evaluations including: 
  • Support the PDQA and PM in developing the ToR/scope of work for evaluations (internal and external).
  • Support the PDQA in monitoring progress in external evaluations, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
  • Monitor data collection and analysis for internal evaluations.
  • Administrative support in evaluations external evaluation contracts management
  • Dissemination of evaluation results internally and externally. 

Accountability 

• Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant with WC’s Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies.
• Contribute to accountability mechanisms within projects to ensure two-way communications between WC staff ad beneficiaries; 
• Ensure that children, young people, and beneficiaries are supported and enabled to participate in monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment activities; 
• Line manages the data collection (casual) staff in the field.
• Frequent travel to the field. 

Learning

• Participate in project design processes and support the PDQA in ensuring that the learning from internal and external evaluations is disseminated and incorporated into the development of future projects.
• Support the data collection and analysis processes of researches/studies, for impactful research outputs.

These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post.

You are

Education

• At least Bachelors degree in relevant field of study (e.g. development, social science, information management, statistics or related field) 
• Specific qualification in M&E is preferred

Work Experience and Knowledge

• At least 3 years’ experience preferably field-based national and/ or international NGO programme experience;
• Experience working in monitoring and evaluation, including design of data collection tools, data collection process, data analysis and report writing, particularly within the fields of child protection, education or psychosocial programming.
• Demonstrated ability to create practical simple data collection tools, including questionnaires
• Ability to support in designing, conducting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data. 
• Experience in facilitating training and building up capacity of human resources in M&E data collection implementation and analysis
• Excellent computer skills: MS word, excel, power point, databases, including relevant M&E packages and ability to support others in working with databases and statistical software 
• Fluent in English and Arabic (spoken and written) 

Qualities

• Good interpersonal and communications skills
• Team player
• Excellent analytical skills 
• A commitment to participatory approaches 
• Ability to be administratively self-sufficient.
• Flexible and willing to support others at times when particular organisational priorities take precedence
• Patient and appreciative of the circumstances faced by Field staff
• Commitment to War Child’s aims, values and mission
• Ability to travel to different parts of Yemen.

Important note: 

• War Child UK is an equal opportunity employer.
• War Child UK does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
• As this role is a National position, all candidates are required to be a Yemeni national.
• Only candidates who are short-listed will be contacted.

Your team:

Programme Quality & Development Advisor

You

MEAL field staff

Safeguarding

War Child is committed to humanitarian values, standards and norms and we expect the same from job applicants. War Child is especially committed to safeguarding the children and youth we support and doesn’t tolerate any form of abuse. Because we want to prevent and deter any actions that place children and youth at risk, conduct references are an important part of our recruitment procedure. As part of the selection process, War Child will request standardized references in accordance with the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and a recent Criminal Records statement.Pre-employment checks
Employment with War Child will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• receipt of 2 satisfactory references
• a police check and a Due Diligence Check