Pearls and Wellbeing Foundation (PWF) was established in 2019 as an indigenous non-governmental, women-led and youth-led organization committed to fostering equity in maternal, adolescent, and child health, education, food security, and nutrition sectors across Nigeria. PWF collaborates with stakeholders to develop context-tailored solutions that address pressing challenges in these sectors, ensuring sustainable impact.

Main objective and responsibility of the position

The MEAL Officer will work as part of the Pearls and Wellbeing staff to support a culture and practice of reliable planning, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning. This includes developing, updating and coordinating MEAL activities and capacity building of PWF staff, network members and partners in MEAL, promoting MEAL knowledge transfer internally and externally. 

Roles and Responsibility

The MEAL officer shall be responsible for:

• Develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system that will ensure tracking of project/ program results at different levels (inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impact). 
• Develop/adopt an integrated database of all projects/ programmes and ensure accountability through regular data updates, data integrity and working in collaboration with the data processors. 
• Work with program officers and managers to ensure the collection of relevant and appropriate data needed for an effective MEAL system which will be utilized in monitoring strengths, weaknesses and gaps in existing projects/ programs and services and for reporting on donor commitments.
• Review existing data collection tools for the current country programmes and projects.
• Maintain and update the overall indicator results frameworks for the organization’s projects and programs.
• Develop Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plans for all projects and proposals and ensure the same is followed up during implementation.
• Ensure all grants have updated work-plan and performance management plan (PMP) in tandem with all approved proposals, regularly reviewing and updating as needed. 
• Carry out regular data quality assessments/audits for MEAL data based on agreed indicators to guide decision making. 
• Provide alert to the respective staff on corrective actions required to avoid delays in implementation, including flagging operational issues and risks requiring timely actions.
• Review monthly progress reports and ensure there are evidences to back-up and provide feedback to the respective staff.
• Collate/prepare reports related to internal reporting such as the quarterly and annual reports.
• Ensure that cross-cutting issues such as participation, gender, age and disability are effectively addressed/ mainstreamed in all project/programme implementations as part of ensuring accountability process.

Assessments, Surveys, research and Evaluation

• Adhere to accountability requirements by initiating baseline surveys for new projects/programmes and conducting relevant evaluations for ongoing projects to meet PWF standards. 
• Ensure that PWF learns from all final evaluations of completed projects for decision making and improvement of project designs. 

Reporting

• To Program Manager

REQUIREMENTS (QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE) 

To apply for this role applicants MUST meet the following criteria:

Competencies Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioral Flexibility, Commitment to PWF Principles, Service Orientation, Stress Management.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Please use this link https://form.jotform.com/250333825943559 to complete your application.  

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PWF is an equal opportunities employer and promotes diversity within the organization