Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor

Role Overview

The Humanitarian Action MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning) Advisor provides technical assistance, tools, and capacity-building to Member Associations across the project cycle. This includes designing MEAL frameworks, developing and maintaining data-collection tools, and ensuring findings inform decision-making. The position is also responsible for promoting MEAL standards, coordinating systems integration, supporting accountability and child-friendly feedback mechanisms, and producing key reporting and learning products.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Assistance, Tools & Capacity Strengthening

• Provide technical assistance to Member Associations across the project cycle, including design and review of MEAL frameworks, indicators, log frames, and monitoring plans.
• Develop, adapt, and maintain data-collection tools (including Kobo) and advise on methodology for needs assessments, baselines, and endline surveys.
• Review and analyse indicator data, ensuring quality and recommending adjustments to improve project delivery; ensure findings inform decision-making and project adaptation.
• Maintain a pool of evaluators, review and advise on mid-term and final evaluation design and implementation, and ensure results are disseminated and acted upon.
• Train and coach MEAL and project staff — virtually and on-site — on MEAL standards, CHS, results-based management, and digital data collection.

MEAL Standards, Tools & Minimum Requirements

• Develop, maintain, and promote MEAL minimum requirements and standards for humanitarian projects, including global indicators and key processes.
• Maintain and adapt the SOS CV Child Protection in Humanitarian Action handbook (Companion) and MEAL toolkit, ensuring alignment with global standards.
• Lead the collection and consolidation of data on numbers of direct and indirect participants reached.

Coordination & Systems Integration

• Ensure that humanitarian projects are fully registered and accurately reflected in SOS systems (ProDIGI, PDB2), global reports, and dashboards.
• Coordinate with IT, ProDIGI, PDB2, and other departments to ensure systems are aligned and user needs are addressed; gather feedback and lead change requests or pilots as needed.

Accountability & Participation

• Ensure participation of affected populations — especially children and young people — throughout project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Support development and use of child-friendly feedback and complaint mechanisms, ensuring findings are systematically used for program decisions.
• Lead SOS CV’s CHS accountability processes, including certification maintenance, documentation, tracking action plans, and liaising with the CHS Alliance.

Reporting & Organisational Learning

• Produce periodic global humanitarian response reports for donors, PSAs, and internal stakeholders.
• Lead learning and knowledge-sharing initiatives, including peer-to-peer exchanges, newsletters, and dissemination of lessons learned.

Safeguarding and Promoting a Safe Environment

• Commit to the Code of Conduct and reflect on safeguarding implications of your work on an ongoing basis.
• Actively participate in team discussions to identify risks and share and apply preventative and mitigation measures.
• Integrate safeguarding principles into daily decisions and tasks and report concerns promptly.

Requirements

• Master’s degree, preferably in Monitoring & Evaluation, humanitarian or development studies, international relations, project management, social sciences, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of professional experience, with a minimum of 5 years in MEAL roles and project management within humanitarian or development contexts in a multi-sector INGO.
• At least 2 years of international field experience in Asia, Africa, or Latin America.
• Experience with research methods and data management and analysis.