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.
Tittle: MEAL Assistant
Location Adamawa , Borno , Yobe State
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 Responsibility
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirement:
- 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.
- Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.
- 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.
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 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.
- 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).
Application Dealine 4 December 2025
METHOD OF APPLICATION
Interested and Qualified candidates should click link below to Apply.
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