Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Officer

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Officer

Permanent. Full time. Hybrid working (You will be required to attend the office for a minimum of 2 days per week with the option to work remotely for the remaining 3 days)

Location: Bogota, Colombia

Salary: 117,863,874 Colombian Pesos per year

All applications and CV submissions to be made in English only please

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues and the option of being a homeworker for most of our roles too. 

About the role

Reporting in to the MEAL Lead, the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Officer will support Christian Aid’s MEAL work for the Multi-Country Cluster region (MCC), working across all types of humanitarian, development and advocacy programmes in MCC 
countries to provide high quality, coherent and consistent work. 

The post-holder will assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of Christian Aid, donor and sector MEAL approaches and requirements, providing effective and timely support (including capacity building) to programme staff and partner organisations, maximising impact. 

The role will ensure high quality internal and external reporting using digital technology and decolonised methodologies in MEAL across all Christian Aid programmes, as well as develop and embed relevant international policies, tools, frameworks and support annual Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) audit processes, including evidence mapping and documentation, ensuring coherency and consistency.
 

Some of the main responsibilities of the MEAL Officer include:

• Project proposals prepared based on strong planning, monitoring and evaluation procedures including reporting requirements to maximise impact. 
• Support appropriate MEAL plans to be developed and implemented with partners and staff.
• Demonstrate collaboration with others and building relationships based on trust and openness.
• Provide support to partners to develop periodic progress reports and provide analysis for programme decisions and advocacy purposes to maximise impact. 
• Provide accompaniment support to partners. 
• Provide effective monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring they are maintained, updated, used and contribute to quality programming, aligning with organisational values and goals.
• Support roll-out and implementation of the digital feedback system COMPASS, including documenting learning on this across all programmes ensuring quality, consistency and coherence.
• Develop, capture, and share best practice in community-based approaches to accountability within Christian Aid.
• Provide outcomes and impact measures and reports to donors to maximise income.
• Collaborate with Communications colleagues, support comms plan development for the MCC and storytelling to supporters, maximising impact

About you

Who we are looking for

Essential:

• Degree or equivalent, preferably social studies/statistics or similar.
• Understanding of data management packages, like SPSS, Microsoft Access, and other digital data collection tools.
• Highly developed communication skills both written and verbal.
• Significant experience in humanitarian/development sector.
• Demonstrable experience in programme design, monitoring, and evaluation, including design of systems and tools, data 
  collection & analysis and report writing.
• Developed data analysis skills (quantitative and qualitative). 
• Understanding of programme cycle management approaches and tools, including participatory planning and monitoring.
• Understanding of accountability and partnership approaches.
• Demonstrable experience of accountability mechanisms at field level.
• Understanding of result-based management and impact assessment tools.
• Detailed understanding of M&E frameworks, systems and/or indicator reference sheets.
• Understanding of routine data quality checks/validation. 
• Demonstrable experience in survey and qualitative interviewing, including supervising field data collection teams.
• Demonstrable experience in qualitative and quantitative tool design, data analysis and reports.
• Understanding of CHS and other safeguarding and accountability frameworks, including community feedback mechanisms.
• Fluent English language skills
• For LAC, fluent Spanish required. 

Further information

At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.

We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. 

We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity. 

All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this.