Senior MEAL Specialist (RISE Project)

About the role

The Senior MEAL Specialist will lead monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities for the RISE Project in Myanmar. Working with field teams and consortium partners, you will ensure high‑quality data collection, analysis and reporting to support programme impact and donor requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Design, test and refine monitoring tools and oversee routine field monitoring visits.
• Verify beneficiary data, ensure sex, age and disability disaggregation, and identify monitoring gaps.
• Conduct data quality assurance, including validation, cleaning, consistency checks and documentation review.
• Maintain organized monitoring evidence, support data quality assessments and manage databases.
• Analyze monitoring data, generate performance summaries, dashboards and visualisations for programme teams and management.
• Support accountability mechanisms by monitoring feedback, complaints and beneficiary satisfaction assessments.
• Contribute to assessments, evaluations, learning activities and reporting, including baseline/endline data collection and after‑action reviews.
• Provide technical coaching to project staff, field teams and consortium partners on MEAL tools, data collection methods and reporting standards.

Required profile

• Significant experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning within humanitarian or development programmes.
• Proven ability to manage data quality processes and produce actionable insights.
• Strong understanding of donor reporting requirements and data protection principles.
• Excellent communication skills for coaching partners and presenting findings.

Required skills

• Data validation and cleaning techniques
• Database management
• Data visualisation and dashboard creation
• Monitoring tool development