MEAL Advisor IP - 2025129

Position Overview

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Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you. At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering. If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY: World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish. Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

POSITION SUMMARY: The MEAL Advisor works with both Home Office and Country Office based staff to support a cross-functional MEAL role. By guiding quality of WRs reach and impact reporting, the position will drive the technical excellence of World Relief’s MEAL department. Primary responsibilities include Supporting Country Offices in Monthly reporting, Country Offices MEAL capacity building, operationalizing WR MEAL frameworks and strategy, support learning and impact reporting at Country Offices.

Role & Responsibilities

Technical Assistance (50%)

• Provide technical assistance on monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning to country offices’ MEAL and programme staff, including use and adaption of standard tools for data collection, analysis, and reporting for both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Provide technical support to the programme and MEAL teams at country offices to adopt and implement the organizational DMEAL guidance.
• Provide technical support on the design of and reporting on Results Frameworks in line with the WR Theory of Change Impact Framework.
• Provide technical support to the country office MEAL and Program staff on measuring programs reach including the aggregation and reporting of the annual program participants data at country office level.
• Conduct timely quality assurance on metrics data from country offices, contributing to the monitoring of program quality, annual reports at HO level to enhance accountability, and the continuous improvement of programs.
• Support country offices in the development of comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plans for new projects develop metrics for measuring the success of programs, including appropriate, output, outcome and impact indicators In collaboration with sectoral Technical Advisors. (TAs).
• Support country offices to promote sex, age and disability-sensitive data collection and analysis.
• In Collaboration with Impact Systems team and MEAL Director at HO, support the design and development of programs/projects evaluation tools for baseline, midterm, and final evaluation.

Capacity Development (30%)

• In collaboration with MEAL Director at HO, develop and implement a country office M&E capacity strategy and development plans, generating training materials and resources where needed.