Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
World Relief Burundi (WRB)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator
Organization: World Relief
Position: MEAL Coordinator
Duty Station: Buhumuza Province – Communes of Ruyigi and Cankuzo, covering all refugee camps and host communities
Reports to: MEAL Manager
Application Deadline: 20/11/2026
About World Relief
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization committed to providing sustainable solutions to the world's greatest crises through partnerships with local churches. Our work focuses on disaster response, resilience, and supporting vulnerable communities affected by crises.
Working in partnership with local churches and community leaders, World Relief provides hope, healing, and transformation to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and vulnerable populations in host communities.
Position Summary
World Relief is seeking a qualified, experienced, and motivated Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator to provide technical leadership and oversight of MEAL activities across its programs in Buhumuza Province, particularly in Ruyigi and Cankuzo.
The successful candidate will be responsible for strengthening MEAL systems, ensuring data quality and integrity, coordinating monitoring and evaluation activities, overseeing community feedback and response mechanisms, and promoting organizational learning and evidence-based decision-making.
The MEAL Coordinator will also ensure that accountability, safeguarding, and compliance standards are integrated into program implementation and that reliable monitoring data informs program quality and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
The MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for the following key areas:
1. Monitoring, Evaluation and Program Quality
- • Design, implement, and continuously strengthen MEAL frameworks, logical frameworks, and indicator tracking systems.
- • Coordinate baseline, midterm, and endline evaluations and routine data quality assessments.
- • Ensure that project monitoring indicators meet donor requirements and organizational standards.
- • Provide technical guidance and capacity building to program teams on monitoring, data collection, verification, and reporting.
2. Data Management, Analysis and Reporting
- • Manage digital data collection platforms, including KoboToolbox, ODK, ONA, and MIS Savix.
- • Conduct quantitative and qualitative data analysis using tools such as Excel, Power BI, R, SPSS, or Stata.
- • Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of program data.
- • Coordinate the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual MEAL reports.
- • Ensure systematic documentation and sharing of project impact stories and success stories.
3. Accountability and Community Feedback Mechanisms
- • Oversee the implementation and continuous improvement of Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM).
- • Ensure that feedback and complaints channels are accessible, confidential, and functional across all project locations.
- • Coordinate the logging, tracking, referral, and follow-up of complaints in accordance with organizational policies.
- • Promote community awareness of beneficiary rights, program entitlements, and available feedback channels.
- • Prepare periodic CFM analysis reports and provide recommendations to management.
4. Safeguarding, Compliance and Organizational Learning
- • Promote compliance with World Relief's safeguarding, PSEAH, Code of Conduct, and accountability policies.
- • Facilitate learning and reflection sessions and After Action Reviews.
- • Document and share lessons learned, best practices, and program success stories.
- • Use monitoring evidence and community feedback to recommend improvements in program implementation and design.
Required Qualifications and Experience
Education
- • Bachelor's degree in Statistics or a related field.
Professional Experience
- • At least 4–6 years of progressive experience in MEAL, monitoring, and evaluation within an international humanitarian or development organization.
- • Demonstrated experience working in refugee camps, IDP settings, and host communities.
- • Proven experience in implementing and managing Community Feedback Mechanisms.
- • Experience in data quality assurance, verification, validation, analysis, reporting, and MEAL capacity building.
Technical Competencies
- • Advanced knowledge of digital data collection tools such as KoboToolbox, ODK, ONA, and MIS Savix.
- • Strong skills in data analysis and visualization using Excel, Power BI, R, SPSS, or Stata.
- • Good understanding of project design and monitoring frameworks, including Theory of Change and Logical Frameworks.
- • Strong report writing, analytical, and presentation skills.
Language Requirements
- • Fluency in written and spoken English and French.
- • Fluency in Kirundi is mandatory.
- • Knowledge of Kiswahili will be considered an added advantage.
Required Competencies and Personal Attributes
The ideal candidate should demonstrate:
- • Strong strategic thinking, analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.
- • Excellent leadership, coordination, and capacity-building abilities.
- • High ethical standards and the ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
- • Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- • Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines in challenging field environments.
- • Strong commitment to accountability, safeguarding, transparency, and program quality.
Commitment to World Relief Values
The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate and promote World Relief's core values:
- • The Example of Jesus
- • The Local Church
- • Values People
- • Excellence and Continuous Improvement
- • Empowerment
- • Partnership with Others
- • Prayer
Application Procedure
Interested and qualified candidates who meet the above requirements are invited to submit their applications, including:
- • An updated Curriculum Vitae (CV).
- • A cover letter explaining their suitability for the position.
- • Copies of relevant academic and professional certificates.
- • Contact details of at least three professional referees.
Applications should be submitted to Email wrburundi@wr.org no later than 20 November 2026.
Please indicate "MEAL Coordinator – Buhumuza" in the subject line of your application.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
World Relief is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and protecting the people and communities we serve. All candidates are expected to uphold the organization's safeguarding policies, Code of Conduct, and commitment to accountability.
World Relief Burundi (WRB) (ONG)
+257 22 24 91 61
http://worldrelief.org/
Mukaza, Quartier Rohero I, Avenue Muyinga No 56
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that brings sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. We partner with local churches and community leaders in the U.S. and abroad to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.