MEAL Assistant – Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

About the role

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Assistant will support the MEAL team in Upper Egypt, providing hands‑on assistance for designing and implementing M&E plans, monitoring tools, and learning processes. The role ensures gender‑sensitive, participatory data collection and contributes to reporting and accountability mechanisms.

Key responsibilities

• Assist the MEAL Officer in training program staff on the MEAL system and conduct rapid field assessments.
• Coordinate baseline surveys, manage data collection, compile results and draft reports.
• Collect high‑quality monitoring data, organise it for timely reporting to programme teams.
• Support data validation, quality assessment and provide feedback for improvement.
• Ensure project databases and IPTT are updated on schedule.
• Help set project logframes and indicators in the PRIME system according to SCI guidelines.
• Contribute to capacity‑building activities for local communities, partners and staff on M&E frameworks and data management.

Required profile

• University degree in social sciences, development studies, statistics or a related field.
• Experience in monitoring, evaluation or data collection within humanitarian or development projects.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively with programme staff, partners and beneficiaries, including children.

Required skills

• Familiarity with M&E concepts, logframe development and indicator tracking.
• Experience using data collection tools and managing databases.
• Basic knowledge of gender‑sensitive and child‑focused accountability processes.