M&E Officer (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning)

About this role

The role is for an M&E Officer at Hope Spring Community Humanitarian Initiative in Borno. The organisation is an NGO in Nigeria linked to Hope Spring Water, a UK charity focused on water, sanitation and hygiene. The position centres on developing and managing MEAL plans, data collection, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning activities to support humanitarian programmes. It involves coordinating data from field staff and partners, conducting field visits, and ensuring findings inform programme adjustments. The officer also supports learning, reporting, capacity building, and proposal development with MEAL inputs.

What you would do

• Develop and implement MEAL plans, logical frameworks, IPTTs, and data collection tools.
• Coordinate routine data collection from field staff, partners, and beneficiaries using paper or digital tools.
• Conduct field monitoring visits, spot checks, and data verification to track progress against indicators.
• Maintain, clean, validate, and update data trackers and databases.
• Support or lead baseline, midline, endline assessments, PDMs, and other evaluations.
• Contribute to evaluation design, sampling, tool development, data analysis, and reporting.
• Ensure evaluation results inform programme adjustments.
• Establish and manage Community Feedback and Response Mechanisms and respond to feedback.
• Promote accountability to affected populations and share feedback trends with programme teams.
• Facilitate learning sessions, document lessons learned, and promote adaptive management.

What they are asking for

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, M&E, Social Sciences, Economics, Development Studies, Public Health, Demography or related field.
• Master's degree or postgraduate diploma in M&E is an advantage.
• 2 to 5 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning in humanitarian or development contexts.
• Experience with multi-sector projects (health, nutrition, WASH, livelihoods, protection).
• Strong knowledge of MEAL principles, results-based management, and logical frameworks.
• Proficiency with data collection tools (Kobo, ODK, SurveyCTO) and data analysis software (Excel, SPSS, STATA, R, Power BI).
• Experience with qualitative methods (FGDs, KIIs) and quantitative surveys.
• Understanding of CHS and AAP accountability frameworks and safeguarding.
• Strong communication, training, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness to travel and work in field conditions; ethical handling of data.

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