MEAL Officer
YSAT Uganda
Uganda
Full time
Administration
Posted: Aug 10, 2026
3 months ago
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Job Description
MEAL Officer
Uganda
Job Category: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
Employment Type: Full Time
Organisation: YSAT Uganda
Duty Station: Kiryandongo, Uganda
Job Category: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
Employment Type: Full Time
Organisation: YSAT Uganda
Duty Station: Kiryandongo, Uganda
Job Summary
YSAT Uganda is recruiting a MEAL Officer to design, establish, and maintain a robust Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system for its Kiryandongo project.
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that project outputs and outcomes are accurately measured, analysed, documented, and used to improve programme implementation. The role combines field monitoring, data collection, data quality assurance, community accountability, reporting, learning, and evidence generation.
The position is particularly suited to an experienced M&E or MEAL professional with strong quantitative analysis skills and experience working in humanitarian, education, refugee, or NGO programmes.
Key Responsibilities
1. MEAL System Implementation
- Implement the consortium-approved PlayMatters 3.0 MEAL toolkit.
- Maintain project log-frames and indicator tracking tables.
- Keep data-flow processes accurate and up to date.
- Ensure project indicators are clearly defined and consistently monitored.
- Support project teams in understanding MEAL requirements and reporting standards.
2. Field Monitoring and Data Collection
- Conduct regular field-monitoring visits.
- Track project indicators against agreed targets.
- Lead baseline, midline, and endline data collection exercises.
- Develop and manage mobile data-collection tools using platforms such as:
- KoboToolbox
- ODK
- CommCare
- Ensure data is collected accurately, ethically, and consistently.
3. Data Quality Assurance
- Conduct spot checks of school attendance registers.
- Verify training records and participant logs.
- Check distribution lists and other project documentation.
- Identify data inconsistencies and follow up with responsible teams.
- Maintain high standards of data accuracy, completeness, reliability, and integrity.
4. Community Accountability and Feedback
- Establish and manage Community Feedback and Response Mechanisms (CFRM).
- Ensure communities, schools, and settlements have appropriate channels for providing feedback.
- Capture, document, and track community concerns.
- Coordinate appropriate responses to project-related feedback.
- Ensure feedback is used to improve project implementation and accountability.
5. Learning and Programme Improvement
- Facilitate quarterly project reflection meetings.
- Document lessons learned from project implementation.
- Develop case studies and success stories.
- Capture evidence of project impact and emerging challenges.
- Support teams to use MEAL findings to adapt and improve programme activities.
Qualifications and Requirements
Applicants should have:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in:
- Statistics
- Quantitative Economics
- Demography
- Social Research Methods
- Project Monitoring & Evaluation
- Or another closely related field.
- At least 3 years of MEAL experience.
- Experience working with national or international NGOs.
- Experience in humanitarian settings.
- Education-sector data management experience is highly desirable.
- Experience working with consortium partners.
- Experience working with refugee-led organisations is an advantage.
Technical Skills Required
The successful candidate should demonstrate proficiency in:
- Mobile data collection systems.
- KoboToolbox
- ODK
- CommCare
- Data cleaning and validation.
- Quantitative data analysis.
- SPSS
- STATA
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Indicator tracking.
- Data visualization and interpretation.
- Baseline, midline, and endline assessments.
- Data quality assurance.
- MEAL reporting.
Key Competencies
YSAT will likely look for a candidate with strong:
- Analytical thinking
- Data management
- Research skills
- Report writing
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Project monitoring
- Accountability
- Facilitation
- Documentation
- Teamwork
- Stakeholder engagement
- Critical thinking
- Time management
What the Employer Is Looking For
The ideal candidate should be more than a data-entry or reporting specialist. The role requires someone who can turn project data into useful evidence for decision-making.
Strong candidates should be able to explain how they would identify unreliable data, investigate discrepancies, analyse trends, communicate findings to programme teams, and ensure that communities have meaningful opportunities to provide feedback.
Experience in humanitarian response, refugee programming, education projects, consortium programmes, and community-based monitoring can significantly strengthen an application.
CV Tips for MEAL Officer Applicants
Your CV should be specifically tailored to MEAL, Monitoring & Evaluation, data analysis, accountability, and humanitarian programming.
Highlight Experience In:
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- MEAL systems
- Indicator tracking
- Log-frame management
- Data collection
- Data quality assurance
- Baseline surveys
- Midline assessments
- Endline evaluations
- KoboToolbox
- ODK
- CommCare
- SPSS
- STATA
- Advanced Excel
- Data analysis
- Field monitoring
- Community feedback mechanisms
- Accountability
- Lessons learned
- Case studies
- Humanitarian programming
- Education-sector projects
- Refugee programming
- NGO and consortium coordination
Use Achievement-Based CV Statements
Instead of:
Responsible for collecting project data.
Use a stronger statement such as:
Conducted field-based quantitative data collection and quality checks, ensuring project indicators were accurately captured and reported within established MEAL procedures.
Where possible, include measurable information such as number of beneficiaries, schools, field sites, datasets, surveys, indicators, or project locations managed.
Interview Questions to Prepare For
Technical MEAL Questions
- What is the difference between M&E and MEAL?
- How would you develop an effective MEAL system for a new project?
- What is a log-frame and how is it used?
- What is an Indicator Tracking Table?
- How do you ensure data quality?
- What are the key dimensions of data quality?
- How would you handle inconsistent data from field teams?
- Describe your experience with KoboToolbox, ODK, or CommCare.
- How would you design a baseline survey?
- What is the difference between baseline, midline, and endline assessments?
- How have you used SPSS, STATA, or Excel for data analysis?
- How do you present complex data to non-technical programme staff?
Accountability and Community Engagement Questions
- What is a Community Feedback and Response Mechanism?
- How would you encourage communities to provide honest feedback?
- How would you handle sensitive feedback or complaints?
- How can community feedback improve programme implementation?
Scenario-Based Questions
- You discover that attendance figures reported by a field team do not match school registers. What would you do?
- A field team submits incomplete data shortly before a reporting deadline. How would you respond?
- Community members report that project activities are not reaching the intended beneficiaries. How would you investigate?
- What would you do if programme staff disagreed with your data findings?
How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit their application through the official YSAT careers page.
Applicants should ensure that their CV clearly demonstrates relevant MEAL, M&E, data analysis, field monitoring, humanitarian, education, and NGO experience.
Career Opportunities
Experience as a MEAL Officer can lead to positions such as:
- Senior MEAL Officer
- Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
- MEAL Manager
- M&E Coordinator
- Programme Quality Manager
- Accountability Officer
- Research and Learning Officer
- Data and Evidence Manager
- Programme Performance Manager
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Specialist
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Job Overview
- Job Type: Full time
- Experience Level: Intermediate
- Education Level: Bachelors
- Vacancies: 1
- Category: Administration
- Location: Uganda
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