MEAL Coordinator

Organization Profile and Background

Welthungerhilfe is an international NGO with Head-Quarter in Bonn and working in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Welthungerhilfe is fighting to help free the world of hunger and poverty. This vision is the basis of our organization’s character and activities. Welthungerhilfe secure funds from private donations and international funding organizations, for example, EC, UN-OCHA, ECHO, and German Government. We work in the sectors of Rural Development, WASH, Natural Resource Management and Social Development. Welthungerhilfe Ethiopia follows partnership approach for project planning, implementation, and administration with Ethiopian Partner-NGOs and in exceptional cases WHH implements projects by itself.

Job Title: MEAL Coordinator (National Position)
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Reports to: Head of Programme Development and Quality
Contract Duration: 2-year, renewable based on performance and funding

MEAL Coordinator provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for MEAL across the Welthungerhilfe Ethiopia country programme, strengthening programme quality, accountability, results-based management, and learning through robust systems and evidence-based decision-making.

Purpose of the Role

• Provide strategic leadership and overall technical oversight for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) across the Welthungerhilfe Ethiopia country programme.
• Ensure all programmes and projects comply with WHH MEAL standards, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) commitments and donor requirements.
• Lead and support needs assessments, baselines, context analyses, routine monitoring, evaluations/impact assessments and data quality assurance processes.
• Guide programme teams and partners in results-based design, including development of theories of change, logivcal framework, indicators, targets and monitoring plans.
• Oversee MEAL information management systems, including digital data collection, data analysis, reporting, visualization and knowledge products.
• Strengthen accountability to targeted community through effective participation, information-sharing and robust feedback and complaints response mechanisms.
• Ensure safe, ethical and confidential data management practices, including safeguarding-sensitive complaints handling and referral pathways.
• Promote learning, reflection and adaptive management through regular reviews, learning events and systematic use of MEAL evidence.
• Build the capacity of staff and partner organisations through training, coaching, mentoring and technical support on MEAL and accountability.
• Coordinate partner reporting, conduct joint data reviews and support partners to improve data quality, timeliness and use.
• Represent Welthungerhilfe in relevant MEAL, accountability and information management coordination forums and maintain close collaboration with internal teams.

• Advanced university degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive professional experience in MEAL/PMEL or programme cycle management roles within humanitarian and/or development contexts.
• Strong technical expertise in results-based management, indicator development, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Proven experience in designing and managing assessments, baseline/endline surveys and evaluations, and translating findings into programme improvements.
• Demonstrated experience in accountability to affected populations, including feedback and complaints mechanisms and knowledge of the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
• Strong capacity-building skills, including training, coaching and mentoring staff and partners.
• Practical experience with digital data collection, information management systems and data analysis/visualisation tools.
• Strong analytical, writing and communication skills in English; knowledge of Amharic is an asset.
• Ability to work collaboratively with partners and multicultural teams, and willingness to travel regularly to project locations.