Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Assistant at Greater Impact Initiative for Child Support (GIMPACS)

Greater Impact Initiative for Child Support (GIMPACS) is a woman – led, youth led, and non-governmental organization established in 2023 and formally incorporated in 2024 with the focus on providing healthcare and hygiene services to marginalized children, women, and persons living with disability.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

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

Locations: Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe
Reports To: MEAL Officer

Job Summary

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Assistant will manage information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication in an organization's activities and results.
• He/she will play an important role in improving information management and data quality, and in strengthening knowledge sharing and learning across the organization.
• He/she will also be responsible for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of programs, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate the design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during the annual work-planning process
• Ensure the alignment of MEAL activities with program goals.
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure the inclusion of MEAL activities.
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned, and champion the scaling up best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing MEAL systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting; provide training as needed.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting.
• Cultivate and strengthen relationships with local partner organization, donors, private sector partners, and national authorities.
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions.
• Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Analyse data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes.
• Generate indicator reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed.
• Create and integrate graphics in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way.
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submission to ensure superior quality and professionalism.
• Contribute to developing and reporting project reviews, assessments, surveys, and other analytic or evaluation processes and products.
• Ensure a unified approach to partner self-assessment and programmatic close-out reporting.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A minimum of HND, BSc or bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Information Management/Technology, Public Health, International Development, Public Policy, or a related field.
• At least two years’ experience in – program monitoring and evaluation which includes database development and management, remote monitoring, assessments, and situation analysis in emergency settings.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance management, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact), data collection and analysis methodologies
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.

Essential:

• Computer skills, especially in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel
• Previous track record monitoring nutrition projects across the BAY states
• Proficiency in the use of the Kobo toolbox and ODK
• Experience in strategic planning and performance management, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment set priorities, and meet deadlines.
• Ready to travel to deep field for monitoring project activities.
• Communication skills (English, Hausa and Kanuri are an added advantage).
• Experience in planning and managing surveys, developing, and refining data collection tools, and with data quality assessments and oversight
• Proficient in using analysis tools (Excel and Power BI)
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline 4th December, 2025.