Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor at SOS Children’s Villages

Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor at SOS Children’s Villages – SOS Children's Villages Kenya Job Details

About the Role

SOS Children’s Villages is recruiting a Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor for its Nairobi office. This is a full-time position within a long-established international development organisation that has supported children’s rights and welfare since 1949. The role sits at the intersection of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) within humanitarian programmes, requiring someone with advanced technical expertise and field experience across the Global South.

As a Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor at SOS Children’s Villages, you will lead monitoring and evaluation functions across multiple member associations and country programmes. Your work will strengthen data quality, inform programme decisions, and embed accountability mechanisms that centre the voices of affected populations—especially children and young people. This is a hands-on advisory role combining technical guidance, capacity building, systems development, and strategic reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver technical support to member associations throughout project cycles, including design and appraisal of MEAL frameworks, indicators, log frames, and monitoring strategies.
• Develop, customise, and sustain data-collection tools such as Kobo and provide methodological guidance for needs assessments, baseline studies, and endline evaluations.
• Examine indicator data for quality assurance, recommend improvements to project performance, and ensure findings drive programme adaptation and strategic choices.
• Oversee a roster of external evaluators, review designs for mid-term and final evaluations, and facilitate dissemination and application of findings across the organisation.
• Conduct training and coaching sessions—both remote and in-person—for MEAL and project staff on humanitarian standards, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) principles, results-based management, and digital data platforms.
• Establish and maintain MEAL minimum requirements and standards for humanitarian initiatives, including global indicator sets and operational processes aligned with international norms.
• Coordinate with information systems teams to ensure humanitarian projects are registered and accurately represented in SOS systems (ProDIGI, PDB2), global dashboards, and reporting platforms.
• Champion participation of affected communities—particularly children and adolescents—in project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation; support child-friendly feedback and complaints mechanisms and embed findings into programme decisions.
• Lead CHS accountability processes, including certification maintenance, documentation, progress tracking, and liaison with the CHS Alliance.
• Author periodic global humanitarian response reports for donors, partner support agencies, and internal stakeholders; lead peer learning initiatives and knowledge-sharing across the network.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, humanitarian studies, development studies, international relations, project management, social sciences, or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum 5–8 years of professional experience, with at least 5 years in dedicated MEAL roles and project management within humanitarian or development organisations operating across multiple sectors in an international NGO setting.
• A minimum of 2 years of direct field experience in Asia, Africa, or Latin America.
• Demonstrated knowledge of research methodologies and proficiency in data management and quantitative/qualitative analysis.
• Advanced expertise in humanitarian standards and systems (CHS, Sphere Standards, Child Protection in Humanitarian Action)—essential for this Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor position.
• Advanced competency in MEAL technical functions: indicator design, logical frameworks, survey methodology, and data analysis using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
• Intermediate-level proficiency with digital data management tools including Kobo, Excel, Power BI, and information systems such as ProDIGI, PDB2, and SharePoint.
• Proven ability to translate MEAL findings into clear reports and use evidence to guide programme adjustments and decision-making; experience in training and coaching MEAL and project staff on technical standards.
• Desirable: practical experience with Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) frameworks, child-friendly feedback mechanisms, programme evaluation commissioning, evaluator management, data visualisation tools, and familiarity with AI-assisted data analysis or reporting platforms.

What to Expect

• You will work within a multi-country humanitarian context, balancing strategic guidance with field-level technical support across geographically dispersed teams.
• The role requires ongoing commitment to safeguarding principles; you will actively participate in risk identification, champion preventative measures, report concerns transparently, and uphold a zero-tolerance culture regarding harm.
• This Humanitarian Action MEAL Advisor at SOS Children’s Villages position in Nairobi is open to qualified candidates. Click Apply below to submit your application.