Senior Meal Advisor at CARE – July 2025

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and Manage MEAL Systems
• Lead the development and management of the program MEAL System for a 3.5 year program in line with the program theory of change and learning priorities
• Develop and/or define key performance indicators and impact metrics, drawing on existing indicators and tested tools as much as possible
• Develop data collection instruments and systems to support responsible data management and timely reporting between sub-awardees, CARE, and donors
• Manage and/or generate routine reports, drawing on MEAL system to assess program progress, identify emerging lessons and illustrate opportunities for improvement
• Manage data collection approaches and data management vendors
• Recruit and manage regional MEAL consultants and/or firms to support the delivery of the program MEAL system
• Help articulate an evidence base that supporting the learning agenda
• Extract insights from previous programming to inform impact assessments
• Connect with KM colleagues across CARE and the larger public to share data and findings
• Training, capacity building, and sharing learnings
• Create excellent rapport with sub-awardees and provide technical assistance across MEAL activities
• Deliver capacity building and training support to program sub-grantees as needed
• Create opportunity for cross-regional “sharing and learning” events online, in person as possible, etc.
• Willingness to travel up to 35% of the time
• Represent program with internal and external audiences
• Generating and/or supporting others to generate program reports and presentations
• Presenting program updates to internal stakeholders and donors
• Representing the program in external events and conferences

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and least 10 years of relevant experience with international development/financial inclusion/social impact organizations
• Creative and impact-driven ideas about MEAL in the context of digital inclusion
• Ability to take the lead/self-start based on the needs of the larger program
• Confidence to bring a greater voice to MEAL and make substantive program recommendations
• Mixed-method expertise, with depth in participatory and emancipatory MEAL approaches
• Strong cross-cultural communication skills, including experience working with globally distributed teams
• International work and lived experience, preferable in Sub-Saharan Africa
• An entrepreneurial mindset, comfort with ambiguity and a commitment to going beyond the status quo
• Excellent measurement tool development/use across large-scale multi-country research
• Experience delivering MEAL capacity building to support others to execute monitoring and evaluation tasks
• Direct line management and/or consultant management experience
• Fluent English speaker and writer: effective communicator, able to convert complex data and information into engaging reports, analysis, and insights
• Knowledge/use of digital data collection services ODK, Kobo, and participant-facing data/reporting/feedback systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in development-related methods, data science, science and technology or other relevant field, or the equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience or familiarity with the digital impact, economic empowerment and/or financial inclusion data and tools
• Experience measuring gender norms and/or change gender-focused programming
• Grounded in local approaches through participatory action research and other empowerment-based approaches
• Commitment to gender equality, localization and decolonization of aid
• Exemplary critical thinking and reasoning skills to break down complex problems and find practical solutions