Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Assistant at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

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

Job ID: 14268
Location: Borno
Category: Advocacy, Campaigns and Policy
Reports to: MEAL Officer
Dimensions: Field office-based position with at least 80% field visits.
Functional relationship: Closely work with Sectoral MEAL and Accountability team and relevant programme staff

Role Purpose

• To support the MEAL team in ensuring accountability, learning, and programme quality.
• The MEAL Assistant will be responsible for data collection, field monitoring, supporting accountability mechanisms (including handling feedback and complaints), and contributing to reporting.
• The role requires extensive field visits (over 80%) to directly engage with affected populations, including children.

Key Areas of Accountability
Monitoring:

• Conduct regular field monitoring visits using standardized tools (e.g., quality benchmarks, checklists).
• Support the MEAL team in data collection for assessments, baseline/endline surveys, and programme evaluations.
• Perform post-distribution monitoring (PDM) and other verification activities.
• Facilitate focus group discussions (FGDs) and other participatory data collection methods with communities and children, ensuring ethical standards.

Accountability:

• Support the operationalization of Complaints and Feedback Mechanisms (CFM) across programme sites.
• Act as a focal point for receiving, documenting, and tracking feedback and complaints from beneficiaries, ensuring confidentiality and security of data.
• Liaise with programmes and operations teams to ensure timely follow-up and resolution of complaints.
• Communicate responses back to complainants in a clear and respectful manner

Documentation and Dissemination:

• Contribute to preparing weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on MEAL
• Prepare field visit report and do debriefing and action planning with the relevant staff

Quality Benchmarks:

• To conduct quality monitoring of programme activities, measured against international standards and using participatory methodologies (including child-friendly methodologies) and the quality benchmarks

Coordination:

• Coordinate and communicate with MEAL and relevant programme staff regarding feedback and complaints
• Maintain liaison with MEAL unit and programme particularly field coordination/community mobilization team

Skills and Behaviours (Values in Practice):
Accountability:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
• High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
• Holds self and others accountable

Ambition:

• Creating best-in-class EA function
• Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively

Collaboration:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Designing more effective admin and data management systems
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Qualifications & Experience

• A first degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field.
• Minimum of one year of experience in a similar role (M&E, data collection, community engagement) with an NGO.
• Proven experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection methods (e.g., surveys, FGDs).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to draft clear reports.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively within a team.
• Proficiency in basic Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel).
• Ability and willingness to undertake frequent travel to field sites (over 80% of the time).
• Fluency in Hausa and/or other local languages spoken in Borno State.

Desirable:

•  Experience in working directly with children in a research or monitoring context, with an understanding of ethical standards and child safeguarding protocols.
• Familiarity with key MEAL concepts and humanitarian standards (e.g., Core Humanitarian Standard).
• Experience using mobile data collection tools (e.g., KOBO Toolbox, ODK)

Application Closing Date
7th October, 2025; 01:59 PM.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online