Regional MEAL Officer

 Job Title: Regional MEAL Officer

Department: MEAL

Location: Wolaita, Sodo (covering Hadiya too)

Job Type: Full Time

Reporting to: MEAL Manager (with a dotted line to the Senior MEAL Officer).

Main Purpose:

The Regional MEAL Officer will monitor the projects, programmes, and awards in a defined geography to generate learning, support evidence-based decision making, and demonstrate the results of Hope for Justice’s work.

  MEAL minimum standards

• Work with programme colleagues to ensure each project and award has in place the MEAL minimum standards defined by Hope for Justice (following the MEAL DPro approach).
• Together with the Senior MEAL Officer, build the capacity of local staff members to be involved in data collection and general monitoring activities.
• Oversee and support ongoing data collection and collation, undertaking regular data quality checks.
• Review data on a monthly basis, working with programme colleagues to prepare analyses of findings by project and award. This will include analysis of performance against targets agreed with donors, government, or internally.
• Make regular visits to project sites as part of monitoring activities.
• Ensure all data are stored and used in ways that comply with data protection policies and laws.

Evidence and learning

• Provide data as requested to support the development of concept notes and proposals.
• Support evaluation exercises with existing or additional data, as requested.

Reporting

• Compile data and information for donor reports in a timely and accurate manner.
• Compile monthly written reports for the Senior MEAL officer.
• Assist in the production of quarterly and annual reports as required by government partners or donors.
• Ensure data required for internal reporting is accurate and provided by agreed deadlines.
• Ensure data is available to share with survivors and other stakeholders, helping to ensure we are accountable to our clients.
• Provide regular project updates in suitable formats and respond to specific requests for project data at the Lighthouse level.

General

• Promote Hope for Justice’s core values of Honoring, Openness, Professionalism and Empowerment across the organisation and partners
• Undertake any other duties, as appropriate to the post, as delegated by the MEAL Manager.
• Represent the organisation in different review meeting, workshop and network meetings.
• Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.
• Undertake any other duties assigned by MEAL Manager

For all roles: 

Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise. The employee will go through security and safeguarding training as part of their induction and will have refresher training annually. All employees will be referenced checked, and police checked prior to starting their position. 

Experience and Education

Education

• Degree in Statistics or other Social Science-related fields
• MEAL DPro or equivalent qualification is desirable

Experience

• 3-5 years’ experience working in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning.
• Previous experience working in INGO is desirable.
• Understanding of and experience in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking is desirable.
• Experience working with vulnerable children and families.

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, including excellent listening skills.
• Resolute, and committed to achieving high quality standards and striving for excellence.
• Accurate and attentive to detail.
• Good analytical thinking skills.

Technical Skills

• Good organisational skills.
• Understand basic Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning principles (ideally as they are defined within MEAL DPro).
• Training facilitation skill.
• Ability to write accurate, concise and informative reports.
• Language proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office packages.

How To Apply

Application Instructions

Hope for Justice Ethiopia invites suitably qualified and interested candidates to apply for the position of Regional MEAL Officer.

Interested applicants are required to submit an application letter and updated CV as a single document (PDF or Word format).

Please ensure that the subject line of your email clearly states: Regional MEAL Officer. Applications should be submitted to: www.ethiojobs.net

As part of your application, kindly include the following information:

Your expected monthly basic salary (in ETB), Your notice period

Please note that, due to the anticipated high volume of applications, Hope for Justice reserves the right to close this vacancy prior to the stated deadline should a suitable number of applications be received.

Hope for Justice is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All applicants will be considered without regard to age, marital status, ethnicity, sex, colour, country of origin, or religion. Selection will be based solely on merit.

Hope for Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward all forms of safeguarding violations. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, and all staff are required to adhere to the organisation’s Code of Conduct and uphold the highest standards of professional behaviour at all times.

Successful candidates will be required to provide a valid Certificate of Good Conduct from the Crime Investigation Bureau as part of the pre-employment process.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Closing Date: 26 November 2026

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.