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About the Role

The MEAL Lead provides strategic leadership and technical oversight for War Child’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems. This role ensures evidence, learning, and accountability are embedded in programs and drives program quality and evidence-based decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of organizational MEAL strategies, frameworks, standards, and tools.
• Support results-based planning and strategic program design processes.
• Lead the integration and operationalization of Quality-of-Care indicators within the War Child Alliance, implementing partners and strategic partners.
• Lead the onboarding of partners and implementing teams on Quality of Care and MEAL systems for EBMs and EIMs.
• Oversee technical quality assurance of MEAL systems, processes, and data.
• Strengthen organizational learning and adaptive management through consolidation and use of evidence and insights.
• Build and strengthen MEAL capacity across teams and partners.
• Lead the operationalization of the MEAL localization agenda.
• Contribute to the development of the organizational MEAL strategy and MEAL positioning within the Alliance.
• Line manages MEAL Coordinators and oversees the performance, coherence, and effectiveness of the MEAL function.
• Provide leadership on Humanitarian MEAL, ensuring context-appropriate, timely, and adaptive MEAL approaches.
• Lead development and governance of Quality of Care and Reach indicator guidance, systems, and tools.
• Support the design, oversight, and strengthening of accountability and feedback mechanisms.
• Establish and maintain EBM and reach dashboards consolidating program delivery and learning insights.
• Ensure ethical, safe, and responsible data collection, management, and use.
• Promote systematic use of MEAL evidence and learning to inform program adaptation, strategic decision-making, and organizational priorities.
• Provide technical MEAL inputs to donor engagement, proposal development, and compliance with evidence and reporting requirements.
• Promote alignment and coherence of MEAL, Quality of Care, and evidence systems across the War Child Alliance.
• Support multi-sectoral, technical, and rapid needs and strengths assessments.
• Ensure internal and external communication of MEAL and learning results.
• Represent War Child in relevant global and inter-agency MEAL, quality, and evidence networks.
• Undertake regular travel to support implementation, oversight, and learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Policy, or a related field.
• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is an asset.
• Progressively responsible experience in MEAL or Monitoring and Evaluation roles.
• At least 3 years’ experience working in humanitarian, development, or conflict-affected contexts.
• Demonstrated experience designing, leading, and institutionalising MEAL systems and frameworks.
• Proven experience providing strategic and technical advisory support to country teams and partners.
• Experience contributing to organisational strategy, programme design, proposals, implementation, and reporting.
• Proven experience developing tools, methodologies, guidance, and delivering training and learning activities.
• Strong experience coordinating and leading cross-functional teams, working groups, or communities of practice.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Additional languages may be useful depending on stakeholder groups and organisational context, for example Arabic, Dari, French, Spanish, or Ukrainian.
• Advanced knowledge of MEAL methodologies, tools, and systems.
• Strong expertise in Quality of Care frameworks, indicators, and best practices.
• Solid understanding of accountability to affected populations approaches.
• Experience with assessment methodologies, results frameworks, learning and adaptation processes.
• Ability to design and assess indicators and measurement systems for programme and organisational initiatives.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft 365 tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint).
• Sound understanding of ethical evidence use, safeguarding, and child-centred programming principles.

Skills

• MEAL strategies
• Quality of Care Framework
• MEAL for humanitarian and emergency responses
• Results-based planning
• Strategic program design
• Theories of change
• Quality-of-Care indicators
• Accountability to affected populations
• Humanitarian MEAL
• After Action Reviews
• Accountability and feedback mechanisms
• EBM and reach dashboards
• Data protection
• Safeguarding
• Child-centred programming
• Donor engagement
• Proposal development
• Needs and strengths assessments
• Communications
• Microsoft 365 tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint)

Location

• Afghanistan
• Central African Republic
• Colombia
• DR Congo
• Germany
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Occupied Palestinian territory
• South Sudan
• Sweden
• Syria
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Yemen
• Netherlands
• United Kingdom

Work Type

• Local contract

Experience Level

• Progressively responsible experience in MEAL or Monitoring and Evaluation roles
• At least 3 years’ experience working in humanitarian, development, or conflict-affected contexts

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Policy, or a related field
• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is an asset

Benefits

• Salary and secondary labour conditions based on the in-country salary scale
• Local T&Cs will apply

About the Company

• The War Child Alliance is an international non-governmental organization committed to providing psychosocial support, child protection, youth empowerment programming and quality education to the children affected by armed conflict.
• We implement evidence-based interventions to empower key stakeholders—including governments, educators, caregivers, and communities—to foster children’s wellbeing, education, and self-determination.
• We work with global teams with team members being based in different locations.
• War Child is currently operates in: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, DR Congo, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine (soon to be registered), and Yemen.
• We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
• Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do.
• We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work.
• We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm.
• All (prospective) employees will be expected to be compliant with and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy.
• We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring that all our people and job applicants are treated fairly, irrespective of where, what or whom they were born, or of other characteristics.
• We want to offer a safe and inclusive workplace where all our people, especially those who are currently marginalised or underrepresented, can be themselves at work.

Equal Opportunity

• We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring that all our people and job applicants are treated fairly, irrespective of where, what or whom they were born, or of other characteristics.
• We want to offer a safe and inclusive workplace where all our people, especially those who are currently marginalised or underrepresented, can be themselves at work.