MEAL Officer Duties & Responsibilities

The role and function of a MEAL Officer includes the following duties and responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for all organization's partnerships and projects, as well as for funding proposals
• Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with donor and senior project staff, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance
• Facilitate design of “SMART” objectives, logic models, monitoring frameworks, and evaluation plans during annual work-planning process
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions
• Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements
• Analyze data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to system fixes
• Generate indicator reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed
• Create and integrate graphics in reports and information products to help visualize data in a meaningful way
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submittal to ensure superior quality and professionalism
• Coordinate responses to requests for information
• Contribute to developing and reporting of project reviews, assessments, surveys, and other analytic or evaluation processes and products
• Ensure a unified approach to partner self-assessment and programmatic close-out reporting
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned; and champion the scaling up best practices
• Provide technical leadership and support to project and partner staff in planning and implementing M&E systems and activities, data-based program decision-making, and results reporting; provide training as needed
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting
• Support recruiting, interviewing, and training new M&E staff and/or consultants
• Cultivate and strengthen relationships with local partner organization, donors, private sectors partners, and national authorities
• Other duties as assigned

Note that this is not an exhaustive list of MEAL Officer duties and responsibilities. Job functions for specific MEAL Officer roles may vary, depending on the industry and type of employer.