Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
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Trócaire is hiring a MEAL Coordinator to lead the design, coordination, and continuous improvement of the Sudan Country Programme’s MEAL system. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality evidence collection, analysis, reporting, and learning across projects, while supporting partners in complex and access-constrained environments. The position is based in Nairobi, full-time, with a deadline of 2 December 2026.
- Lead design and management of the country programme MEAL system
- Support partners in complex, access-constrained environments
- Full-time role based in Nairobi under Trócaire
- Deadline for applications is 2 December 2026
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)Coordinator
Jobs Kenya
Full Time
Nairobi
Nairobi
Deadline:
2 December 2026
Posted
September 4, 2026
Trócaire seeks to recruit a dedicated Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator to support the organization’s MEAL and research functions, and other duties as assigned. The MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring a systematic approach to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in the Sudan Country Programme and will facilitate the development. The MEAL Coordinator will lead the design, coordination and continuous improvement of the Sudan Country Programme’s MEAL system, ensuring that programme teams and partners collect, analyse, use and report high-quality evidence in a consistent way, while promoting accountability and learning to improve programme quality and impact, and implementation of the country programme MEAL system. Additionally, s/he will work closely with Trocaire partners’ MEAL Officers and will be responsible for supporting baseline surveys, formative and operational research, development of project MEAL plans, community feedback and accountability mechanisms and development of programme MEAL reports. The candidate will be able to provide responsive technical and programme support to partners operating in complex and access-constrained environments, identifying and supporting practical and innovative solutions to monitoring and data challenges. S/he will ensure that these tasks are functional and well grounded, strengthening coordination and collaboration with all programme team and partner staff, while ensuring that MEAL is visible within projects.
Key
Responsibilities
MEAL System Design, Stewardship, and Management
The MEAL Coordinator leads the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the country programme’s MEAL system to ensure the consistent collection, analysis and use of quality evidence across all projects.
This includes:
Designing and sustaining a robust MEAL framework for the country program, complete with established processes, tools, and clear guidance, is a key responsibility.
Responsible for contributing to the development of project log frames, MEAL plans, indicator frameworks, and IP TTs, as well as ensuring their quality assurance.
Establishing and maintaining systematic tools and methodologies—including standardized indicators and priority-setting approaches—for effective data collection, management, analysis, and reporting.
Assisting in the implementation and utilization of Kobe Toolbox as Procaine’s primary digital data collection platform, while also facilitating the effective operation of other information management systems.
To uphold program monitoring frameworks, we ensure alignment with organizational mandates, donor specifications, and established sectoral benchmarks, including SPHERE, Gave, and the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
The Program Team receives assistance in quantifying the number of individuals engaged as part of the organization’s reporting obligations.
Generate, manage, and support the use of key MEAL templates (such as Output Trackers, Indicator Tracking Tables, and Report Templates)
Programme Quality, Monitoring and Evidence Generation
The MEAL Coordinator ensures that project data is accurate, reliable and useful.
This includes:
Supporting routine monitoring and performance tracking across projects, including through supporting project leads and partner MEAL officers in maintaining Indicator Tracking Tables and other performance documentation.
In collaboration with Program Coordinators, conduct field visits to monitor programme activities against established quality frameworks through qualitative and quantitative methods. Generate and share reports with Programme Manager and the program team, supporting the use of data.
Leading or supporting data quality assessments and validation processes and providing recommendations for improvement to programme teams.
Supporting the design and management of project assessments, reviews and evaluations.
Analysing and synthesising data to identify trends, gaps, risks and opportunities.
Assisting program teams in leveraging monitoring data to refine implementation strategies and enhance outcomes constitutes a key responsibility.
We collaborate with partners to enhance their capabilities and ensure effective support, focusing on strengthening their overall capacity to achieve shared objectives. This role involves identifying key areas for improvement, providing targeted assistance, and implementing strategies to foster sustainable growth and efficiency.
include assessing partner needs, offering tailored training and resources, and monitoring progress to ensure lasting impact. The position requires strong interpersonal skills, a deep understanding of capacity-building principles, and the ability to adapt solutions to diverse organizational contexts.
The MEAL Coordinator collaborates with partners to enhance their MEAL capabilities and facilitate the implementation of effective MEAL practices.
This includes:
Conducting partner MEAL capacity assessments and supporting capacity strengthening plans (through existing resources and potential development of new resources).
Providing technical advice, coaching and mentoring on MEAL approaches, tools and systems.
Supporting partners to develop results frameworks and apply Results Based Management approaches in project documents and programme management.
Supporting partners in the use of digital data collection and analysis tools (primarily through Kobo Toolbox).
Strengthening partner capacity in data quality, evidence generation, reporting and learning.
Supporting joint planning, monitoring and reflection processes with partners.
Ensuring quality data collection through inclusive and representative strategies and the use of Washington Group short set practical tools, and other inclusion tools.
Accountability and Community Feedback
The MEAL Coordinator plays a pivotal role in enhancing systems that empower communities and program participants to share feedback and ensure accountability for the initiatives.
This includes:
Support partners to operationalise community accountability in MEL mechanisms and forums as guided by the Field Coordinator.
Establishing and monitoring Trócaire Complaints and Response Mechanism in all sectors and components of the operations in the programme locations.
Managing complaints and feedback data and supporting appropriate referrals and follow-up through proper data management.
Assessing and strengthening community feedback systems through training.
Promoting the use of community feedback to improve programme quality and responsiveness.
Learning, Adaptation and Knowledge Management
This includes:
Embedding learning throughout the project cycle.
Facilitating reflection, learning and programme adaptation processes.
Identifying and promoting innovative and effective MEAL approaches. Learn from other organisational and external documented learning in rolling out new approaches and methods (e.g. digital data monitoring and innovative participatory M&E methods) and explore how to apply these in the region context.
Documenting and disseminating lessons learned, good practices and evidence of impact.
Supporting the development of case studies, learning products and knowledge-sharing resources.
Ensuring learning informs programme design, implementation and strategic decision-making.
Support the updating of programme data on Salesforce.
Adaptive Programming and Remote Partner Support
The MEAL Coordinator supports partners to maintain effective monitoring, accountability and learning systems in complex, insecure and rapidly changing operating environments.
This includes:
Providing technical support through both in-person and remote modalities.
Supporting partners to adapt MEAL approaches where access, security or operational constraints affect implementation.
Developing practical and innovative solutions to data collection, verification and learning challenges.
Ensuring evidence generation remains feasible, ethical and context appropriate in constrained environments.
Supporting programme teams and partners to use evidence for timely and adaptive decision-making.
Other Duties
Any other reasonable and relevant area of work that, in the opinion of management, is consistent with the role of MEAL Coordinator
Qualifications
BA/BSc/HND
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