MEAL Senior Officer - Assiut

About the role

Save the Children Egypt is recruiting a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Senior Officer (Grade G3) based in Assiut, working 70% of the time there and travelling 30% to other governorates. The post leads the operationalization of the project MEAL system under a Results-Based Financing (RBF) approach, ensuring credible, timely and verifiable data for adaptive management, donor reporting, independent verification and learning. It reports to the MEAL Manager and supervises one MEAL Officer and one MEAL Assistant.

Key responsibilities

• Finalise and operationalise the MEAL plan, IPTT, SOPs and toolkits (PIRS, Action Tracker, Feedback Tracker, Quality Benchmarks) under the RBF model, and maintain the MEAL plan and log frame on PRIME.
• Set up database design, Kobo digital data collection, data management pipelines and Power BI dashboards, and establish Data Quality Assurance procedures and verification sampling frames.
• Train coaches and volunteers on monthly data collection, organise learning events, and run routine monitoring cycles with gender, age, disability, enterprise type and income disaggregation.
• Design and run baseline, midline and endline studies, supervise external evaluators, and coordinate with the Research and Learning Specialist on quarterly learning briefs, case studies and thematic deep dives.
• Translate RBF Disbursement Linked Indicators into verification checklists, support the PMU and Finance in preparing verifiable claims, and coordinate with independent verifiers and donors.
• Produce monthly performance reports, quarterly reports and present dashboards at learning workshops and Award Review Meetings, and feed analytical inputs into adaptive management.
• Ensure safeguarding and confidentiality in data handling, and coordinate with Protection, Gender and Child specialists on monitoring negative outcomes such as child labour and GBV risks.

Required profile

• Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Economics or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5-7 years of progressive MEAL experience in livelihoods, economic empowerment or market systems programs, including at least 2 years in a senior MEAL role managing teams.
• Direct experience managing MEAL for RBF or other outcome-based financing projects, and proven experience designing baseline/endline studies and managing external evaluators.
• Fluency in Arabic (spoken and written) and strong English (written and verbal).

Required skills

• Digital data collection tools (Kobo/ODK), data management systems and dashboarding tools (Power BI or similar)
• Data Quality Assurance, sampling and independent verification
• Integrating child protection, safeguarding and gender-sensitive monitoring into MEAL systems