Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Specialist - Beirut

The Opportunity

The MEAL Specialist plays a strategic leadership role in assuring accountability to stakeholders and strengthening quality in the delivery, learning, and reporting of established multisectoral consortium focusing on food security, livelihoods, nutrition and community support projects. The consortium is led by Save the Children with three other NGOs.

The MEAL Specialist will be responsible for creating, establishing, and maintaining a consortium level MEAL framework as well as project related MEAL system. He/she will ensure that the consortium partners’ MEAL team fulfil the MEAL processes and systems agreed and set in place. S/he will lead on developing approaches to ensure beneficiaries are engaged throughout the project management cycle and are able to hold Save the Children and other consortium members to account. The role will require establishing and maintaining systems and processes related to monitoring and accountability as well as supporting on developing and implementing an evaluation and learning framework for the consortium. The MEAL Specialist will ensure continuous learning and evidence-based adaptive programming and will lead the research elements of the consortium enabling continuous improvement of programming for and with children. He/she will be expected to strengthen the capacity of partner’s MEAL and program staff.

The MEAL Specialist will report to the Chief of Party of the consortium and will have a dotted line technical support from the Save the Children’s MEAL Manager.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

• 5-8 years’ experience of creating, establishing and maintaining a MEAL framework for a multi-sector programme in a humanitarian and development context
• 5 years’ experience of building community participation and accountability
• 5 years’ experience of information and data management
• 5 years’ experience monitoring and evaluation skills, including planning/participating in evaluations
• Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
• 5 years’ experience in supervision, training and coach staff
• Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
• Excellent communication skills
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children. In particular, a good understanding of the Save the Children mandate and child focus and an ability to ensure this continues to underpin our support
• Fluency in English and Arabic

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.

A copy of the full role profile can be found at Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning Specialist - Beirut

The Organization

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those who need better healthcare, education, and Child Protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. 

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday,

- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

- Violence against children is no longer tolerated.

We know that great people make a great organization and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.