Starting salary: $37,016 USD
Contract: One year, subject to funding
Location: Juba, South Sudan, with regular travel across the country
Reports to: Head of Programmes
Travel: Approximately 12 weeks per year
About the role
CTP South Sudan is seeking an experienced Programme Quality Coordinator to lead and strengthen Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) across its programmes and partnerships.
You will provide technical support to programme teams and partners, helping ensure programmes meet organisational quality standards, donor requirements and the Core Humanitarian Standard. You will strengthen accountability to communities, improve data and evidence, support learning and contribute to programme design and decision-making.
The role includes coordinating MEAL systems, assessments and evaluations, data-quality processes, learning activities and partner capacity strengthening. You will also support Safe, Accessible, Dignified and Inclusive (SADI) programming, working closely with safeguarding and sector specialists.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate and improve country MEAL systems, tools, indicators and monitoring processes.
- Provide technical input to programme design, theories of change, results frameworks and MEAL plans.
- Lead or coordinate assessments, evaluations, surveys and data-quality processes.
- Analyse programme data and ensure credible, accurate and traceable evidence.
- Strengthen community feedback, accountability, inclusion and participation.
- Support learning, after-action reviews, reporting and evidence-based programme adaptation.
- Build partner capacity through training, mentoring and technical support.
- Coordinate with country, regional and head-office teams and relevant external stakeholders.
- Manage direct reports and undertake regular field visits across South Sudan.
About you
You will have:
- A degree in MEAL, statistics, economics, development studies, social sciences or a related field, plus relevant MEAL training or certification.
- At least five years’ relevant experience in MEAL, programme quality or programme management, including staff supervision.
- Strong experience designing and managing results-based MEAL systems and data-quality processes.
- Experience with quantitative and qualitative research, digital data collection, analysis and reporting.
- Strong working knowledge of KoboToolbox, CommCare and Microsoft Excel.
- Experience supporting partner-led humanitarian, development or peacebuilding programmes in complex or conflict-affected settings.
- Knowledge of accountability, safeguarding, protection, gender and disability inclusion, donor compliance and programme cycle management.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly within South Sudan, including to insecure environments.
Experience with Power BI, SPSS, Stata, R, peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity, resilience or anticipatory action would be an advantage.
You will bring strong analytical, communication, facilitation and influencing skills, alongside integrity, confidentiality and a commitment to the Catholic Church’s ethos and CAFOD and Trócaire’s vision, mission and values.
CAFOD is a welcoming, supportive workplace committed to a safe, inclusive culture where everyone is respected. CAFOD will make reasonable adjustments at every stage of the recruitment process to ensure candidates with disabilities or individual needs are fully supported.
Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults
CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding Policy, sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment, and conduct themselves in accordance with these documents. This post involves contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, or responsibility for people who will have such contact, and applicants will be subject to safeguarding-related checks appropriate to the country context.
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures.
How to apply
To view the complete job description and submit an application, please visit: CAFOD Careers
More Information
- Job City South Sudan
