MEAL Assistant at Hope Spring Community Humanitarian Initiative – Borno

Hope Spring Community Humanitarian Initiative is recruiting a MEAL Assistant in Borno State to support monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning across its programmes.

Responsibilities

• Help implement monitoring and evaluation plans, results frameworks and indicator tracking tools.
• Collect data from programme activities, partners and communities using paper and digital tools, including KoboToolbox, ODK and Excel.
• Enter, clean, validate and organise programme data; maintain databases, files and reporting trackers.
• Support field monitoring visits, spot checks, data verification, surveys, focus groups, interviews and post-distribution assessments.
• Prepare summaries, tables, charts and contributions to periodic or donor reports.
• Document learning, success stories and feedback or complaints; support enumerators and partners in using data tools.
• Carry out associated programme administration and other support tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or, where accepted, a diploma in Statistics, Social Sciences, Economics, Development Studies, Public Health, Demography, Information Management or a related field.
• Typically one to three years of relevant monitoring, evaluation, research, data collection or programme support experience; a strong academic record or internships may be considered at entry level.
• Understanding of indicators, results-based management, ethical data practices and accountability.
• Good Excel skills; familiarity with KoboToolbox or ODK is desirable.
• Accuracy, analytical ability, communication and basic report-writing skills.
• Ability to engage communities, work collaboratively and travel to project sites; English and Hausa language skills as required.
• Monitoring and evaluation training or certification is an advantage.