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Fixed Term Ethiopia Monitoring and Evaluation Print


The Opportunity

The MEAL Coordinator will ensure the quality and timely implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) framework for the Countering Harmful Practices F4B Project (2026–2030), funded by the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA). This project aims to strengthen local civil society organizations to prevent and respond to harmful practices including Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM), Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), teenage pregnancy, and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) across Ethiopia’s Amhara, Oromia, Somali, and Afar regions.

Working closely with the Project Manager, SRH & GBV Specialist, regional coordinators, and other staff, the MEAL Coordinator will ensure that all MEAL activities align with the project’s framework, Plan International Ethiopia’s Country Strategy (2025–2029), and the broader MFA multi-country strategy implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.

The role involves leading data planning, collection, analysis, reporting, and utilization while ensuring gender-transformative, inclusive, and participatory approaches. The incumbent will guarantee compliance with Plan International’s MERL policy, measure indicators in the project’s logical framework, and address data gaps. He/she will support the implementation of Community Feedback and Response Mechanisms, build MEAL technical capacity among staff and partners with a focus on Results-Based Monitoring (RBM), and promote evidence-based decision-making and organizational learning by identifying lessons learned and good practices throughout the project lifecycle. This position is critical for ensuring accountability, learning, and continuous improvement, contributing to the high-quality and impactful delivery of the F4B project.

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Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

  • Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
  • Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
  • Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Program Participants and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
  • Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
About You
  • BA/MA degree in Statistics, Sociology, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or related field with 5 years of experience;
  • Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.
  • Experience in the use of Digital Data Collection tools or/and of data visualization software solutions.
  • Experience in participatory facilitation and capacity development.
  • Experience in working with similar program and MFA funded MEAL framework is preferred
  • Experience in Results-Based Monitoring and PMERL is an asset. Experience in working on consortium projects and with local partners in similar program is an asset.
  • Prior experience and expertise in applying MEAL strategies from a gender transformative and inclusive approach is desirable
Requirement Skill
Presentation
Quantitative and Qualitative research
Quality assurance
Data visualisation
Data collection and Analysis

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  • Job City Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Plan International is an international organisation or development which works in 51 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia to promote the safeguarding of children.It is a nonprofit organisation and is one of the world's largest organisations based on children, it works in 58,000 communities with the help of volunteers to improve how 56 million children live. The charity also has 21 national organisations who have been given the responsibility to oversee the raising of funds and awareness in their individual countries.

The organisation puts an emphasis on communities working together in order to address the needs of children around the world. The NGO focuses on child participation, education, economic security, emergencies, health, protection, sexual health (including HIV), and water and sanitation. It provides training in disaster preparedness, response and recovery, and has worked on relief efforts in countries including Haiti, Colombia and Japan.

Plan International also sponsors the Because I Am a Girl campaign, which has published many stories focusing on the struggle of young women in the developing world.

Plan International was founded during the Spanish Civil War by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and aid worker Eric Muggeridge. When they witnessed the conflict change the lives of children, they founded ‘Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain’, which would later change its name to Plan International. Set up in 1937, the organisation provided food, shelter and clothing to children whose lives had been destroyed by the war.

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0 USD Addis Ababa, Ethiopia CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Plan International

The Opportunity

The MEAL Coordinator will ensure the quality and timely implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) framework for the Countering Harmful Practices F4B Project (2026–2030), funded by the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA). This project aims to strengthen local civil society organizations to prevent and respond to harmful practices including Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM), Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), teenage pregnancy, and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) across Ethiopia’s Amhara, Oromia, Somali, and Afar regions.

Working closely with the Project Manager, SRH & GBV Specialist, regional coordinators, and other staff, the MEAL Coordinator will ensure that all MEAL activities align with the project’s framework, Plan International Ethiopia’s Country Strategy (2025–2029), and the broader MFA multi-country strategy implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.

The role involves leading data planning, collection, analysis, reporting, and utilization while ensuring gender-transformative, inclusive, and participatory approaches. The incumbent will guarantee compliance with Plan International’s MERL policy, measure indicators in the project’s logical framework, and address data gaps. He/she will support the implementation of Community Feedback and Response Mechanisms, build MEAL technical capacity among staff and partners with a focus on Results-Based Monitoring (RBM), and promote evidence-based decision-making and organizational learning by identifying lessons learned and good practices throughout the project lifecycle. This position is critical for ensuring accountability, learning, and continuous improvement, contributing to the high-quality and impactful delivery of the F4B project.

Please click here to review the full job description

Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

  • Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
  • Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
  • Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Program Participants and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
  • Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
About You
  • BA/MA degree in Statistics, Sociology, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or related field with 5 years of experience;
  • Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.
  • Experience in the use of Digital Data Collection tools or/and of data visualization software solutions.
  • Experience in participatory facilitation and capacity development.
  • Experience in working with similar program and MFA funded MEAL framework is preferred
  • Experience in Results-Based Monitoring and PMERL is an asset. Experience in working on consortium projects and with local partners in similar program is an asset.
  • Prior experience and expertise in applying MEAL strategies from a gender transformative and inclusive approach is desirable
Requirement Skill
Presentation
Quantitative and Qualitative research
Quality assurance
Data visualisation
Data collection and Analysis
 2026-01-17

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