The Youth and Women Peacebuilding Foundation (YAWP Foundation) is a Nigerian-based non-profit organisation incorporated in May 2026, dedicated to building lasting peace and empowering vulnerable communities. We focus on youth, women, and other marginalised groups in fragile and conflict-affected areas. Ouroverall goal is to promote sustainable peace, reduce conflict and violence, and empower individuals and communities, especially youth, women, and vulnerable groups, to achieve economic self-reliance and social cohesion through inclusive development and livelihood opportunities.
Location: Plateau
Position Summary
- The MEL Officer designs, establishes, and maintains user-friendly monitoring and evaluation systems across all youth and women empowerment projects.
- The role ensures data collected from the field directly informs project adaptations, demonstrates accountability to donor requirements, captures gender-transformative changes, and elevates youth and women’s voices through participatory evaluation techniques.
Core Responsibilities
MEL System Design & Indicator Tracking:
- Develop project-specific MEL frameworks, indicator tracking tables (ITTs), and logic models tailored to gender equality, social inclusion, and youth development goals.
- Integrate gender-sensitive and age-disaggregated indicators to track participation, decision-making power, economic empowerment, and protection outcomes.
- Establish user-friendly data collection tools (digital surveys, focus group guides, baseline/endline tools and KII) using mobile platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare).
Field Data Collection & Quality Assurance:
- Oversee routine monitoring activities, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness across project locations.
- Conduct field visits to observe activity implementation, verify attendance logs, and audit data collected by youth/women volunteers or community enumerators.
- Train project staff and field enumerators on data collection ethics, informed consent, and safeguarding principles when working with young people and vulnerable women.
Accountability & Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM):
- Establish and manage safe, confidential, and accessible community feedback and response mechanisms (e.g., feedback boxes, helplines, participatory review sessions).
- Ensure feedback from young women, adolescent girls, and marginalized youth is systematically analyzed, referred to management, and acted upon.
- Integrate Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) pathways into routine feedback channels.
Learning, Knowledge Management & Storytelling:
- Facilitate quarterly learning review sessions with program teams to analyze data, identify bottlenecks, and adapt implementation strategies in real time.
- Capture qualitative impact using participatory methodologies like Most Significant Change (MSC), outcome harvesting, and digital storytelling/photovoice.
- Draft comprehensive MEL sections for donor narrative reports, case studies, and policy briefs.
Requirements & Qualifications
Applicants should have:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, research skills, or a related field.
- At least 2 years in evidence-based research, data analysis, project monitoring and evaluation, or a similar role.
- Good communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Google Workspace and relevant digital tools.
- Experience working with NGOs, communities, youth, women, or other relevant stakeholders is an advantage.
- Applicants must demonstrate integrity, professionalism, confidentiality, and commitment to safeguarding.
Key Technical Competencies:
- Methodologies- Gender-sensitive MEL, Participatory Action Research, Most Significant Change (MSC), Outcome Harvesting, Do No Harm.
- Digital Tools- KoboToolbox / ODK, Power BI / Excel, SPSS or Stata (basic to intermediate), Google Workspace.
- Frameworks- Logical Frameworks, Theory of Change, SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work), and youth inclusion matrices.
- Soft Skills- Youth-friendly facilitation, ethical data handling, active listening, cross-cultural sensitivity, report writing.
Other Attributes:
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Commitment to humanitarian and development values, volunteerism, and community service.
- Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities.
Benefits of Volunteering with YAWP Foundation
- Opportunity to contribute to life-saving humanitarian, development and peace interventions.
- Practical experience in program leadership and humanitarian coordination.
- Exposure to donor engagement, proposal development, and project management.
- Professional networking opportunities with humanitarian actors and development partners.
- Capacity-building and learning opportunities.
- Certificate of Service and Recommendation Letter upon successful completion of the volunteer period.
- Opportunity for future engagement subject to organizational needs and performance.
Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their CV (maximum 3 pages) and a cover letter stating your suitability for the position to: [email protected] using ” Application – [MEL Officer-Volunteer]” as the subject of the mail.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
