MEAL Assistant

About the role

Save the Children Egypt is looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Assistant in Cairo. Reporting to the MEAL Officer, the Assistant provides hands-on support and leads specific MEAL activities, including designing project M&E and accountability plans, supporting evaluations and monitoring tools, tracking outputs and results, and strengthening accountability systems such as beneficiary complaints and response mechanisms. The role works closely with the MEAL team and programme staff, and must ensure all MEAL processes are gender-sensitive and participatory, including the voice of children.

Key responsibilities

• Train programme staff on the use of the MEAL system and conduct rapid assessments of field programmes
• Support baseline surveys, from data collection and compilation to reporting
• Collect monitoring data in good quality and on time, and coordinate its collection, reporting and validation
• Conduct monitoring, quality assessment and data validation, and give feedback and recommendations for improvement
• Ensure project teams update project databases and IPTTs on time
• Help set project logframes and indicators on PRIME in line with SCI guidelines
• Build the capacity of communities, partners and staff on M&E frameworks, data management, analysis and reporting
• Ensure children, women and vulnerable members participate in project and MEAL activities
• Organize reflection sessions, learning workshops and lessons-learned events, and document lessons learned
• Visit field locations regularly to support monitoring and evaluation
• Supervise and support MEAL volunteers, and help design and update MEAL guidelines and tools
• Analyze data, compile analytical inputs for technical reports and follow up on reporting deadlines

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a social science, development or equivalent
• At least 2 years of M&E experience, including developing M&E plans, training staff, data collection and analysis, and reporting; preferably across more than one Save the Children priority sector
• Experience setting up or managing M&E systems, preferably in an NGO setting
• Knowledge of accountability initiatives such as child participation, information sharing and complaints response mechanisms
• Fluency in Arabic and English, both spoken and written
• Willingness to travel to field sites

Required skills

• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and statistical software
• Qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Ability to train, mentor and coach staff and partners