MEAL Officer

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Programme Officer

Reporting to: Head of Programmes

Contract Type: 12 months fixed-term contract with possibility of extension

Hours: 40 hours per week

Principal Location: Buea, Cameroon

Updated: March 2025

Our Organisation:

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to be safe, in school, and learning. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection, and livelihood support to address the social, economic, and structural issues that underpin today’s humanitarian crises. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning, refinement, and scale-up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost.

We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa, South America, the Middle East, and South Asia. Since 2008, we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn and supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Street Child of Cameroon is committed to scaling up operations within the development and humanitarian architecture by ensuring that more children return to normal lives, living in safe environments, reunited with their families, attending school, and being protected from violence, sexual exploitation, and other societal vices.

Role Purpose:

The MEAL Programme Officer position requires proven knowledge and experience in delivering integrated programming, with technical skills in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL). The primary purpose of this role is to support MEAL-related interventions across current project initiatives, including BCCP, Play4Peace, Book Aid International, GREP, and SFF. The role will also support programmatic work related to child protection, education in emergencies, and resource mobilisation tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Monitoring & Evaluation – 40%

• Design and implement robust MEAL frameworks and tools to assess programme performance and impact.
• Develop and maintain data collection systems to track progress and outcomes of projects.
• Conduct regular field visits to monitor project activities and assess data accuracy.
• Prepare data analysis reports and share insights with project teams and stakeholders.
• Lead the development of learning reports, evaluations, and presentations.

2. Accountability & Learning – 30%

• Promote a culture of accountability by supporting the implementation of feedback mechanisms.
• Capture lessons learned and best practices to inform programme refinement and scale-up.
• Organise learning workshops to share insights with project teams and partners.
• Develop and maintain documentation to track progress and demonstrate impact.

3. Programme Support – 20%

• Support the integration of MEAL processes within education and child protection programming.
• Facilitate training sessions for staff and partners on data collection and reporting techniques.
• Assist in project proposal writing by providing relevant data and impact stories.
• Collaborate with programme teams to identify key performance indicators and track achievements.

4. Administration & Reporting – 10%

• Draft comprehensive and accurate donor reports, detailing progress and outcomes.
• Maintain updated project records, including databases and progress tracking systems.
• Support internal and external audits with relevant documentation and reports.
• Contribute to data quality assurance and data management processes.

Person Specification:

Experience and Knowledge:

• Proven experience in MEAL implementation, particularly in humanitarian and development settings.
• Experience with data collection, cleaning, and analysis.
• Experience in developing and implementing MEAL frameworks and reporting.
• Strong knowledge of data management software and analysis tools (e.g., Excel, SPSS, Power BI).
• Familiarity with education and child protection programming.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of French or other local languages is an asset.

Other:

• Demonstrated commitment to Street Child’s vision, mission, and values.
• Willingness to travel frequently to project sites.
• Ability to adapt to challenging working conditions and manage competing priorities.

Street Child’s Commitment to Safeguarding:

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff. As part of this commitment, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.

Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, abuse, and/or harassment during employment or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

To Apply:

Please submit your CV and a cover note explaining why you believe you can make an extraordinary impact in this role through Workable.