Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Officer

Contexte

The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) is seeking an experienced Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer to strengthen evidence, learning and programme quality across its work in conflict-affected areas of Somalia. CIVIC works across civilian protection, peace and security, stabilization, community engagement, institutional strengthening, research and policy engagement. Its programming involves communities, civil society, government institutions, security actors, and national and international partners.

As CIVIC expand its engagement with frontline and conflict impacted communities and security forces and government authorities, the programme needs to assess what changes as a result of training, community engagement, dialogue, advocacy and institutional support. This includes changes in knowledge, attitudes, relationships, behaviour and institutional practice; implementation of commitments; the functionality and local ownership of community-based protection mechanisms; community–security relationships; and policy influence on civilian protection. Such changes are rarely linear, involve multiple actors and may take time to emerge. CIVIC therefore seeks a MEAL professional with strong technical skills and practical knowledge of conflict, peace, security and protection programming. The officer will help teams understand what works, what does not, why, and what to change.

Missions et responsabilités

• Support the development, maintenance and strengthening of programme and project-level MEAL frameworks, plans and tools.
• Translate theories of change and programme objectives into clear results chains, indicators, baselines, targets and monitoring approaches.
• Maintain reliable programme results databases, indicator tracking systems and evidence repositories.
• Support programme teams to develop realistic indicators, targets and learning questions for new projects and proposals, while ensuring alignment with approved project results frameworks and donor requirements.
• Harmonize common MEAL approaches, indicators and tools across projects where appropriate, while maintaining traceability to project-specific donor requirements and avoiding duplication or double counting.
• Conduct routine data quality checks and ensure significant programme results are supported by credible evidence.
• Work closely with programme teams to make MEAL practical, proportionate and useful for programme management.
• Maintain project-specific results frameworks, indicator tracking tables, targets, evidence requirements and reporting schedules for each active Somalia grant, while linking them to a coherent programme-level MEAL framework.
• Maintain clear traceability between approved proposals, results frameworks, workplans, activities, monitoring evidence and reported results, and flag material gaps or inconsistencies to programme management.
• Establish controls to prevent double counting of participants, activities and results where projects overlap geographically, institutionally or thematically.
• Support periodic portfolio-level analysis to identify where projects contribute jointly to common outcomes, where evidence gaps remain, and where programme adaptations are required.
• Support the development and application of practical approaches for assessing whether interventions are producing meaningful and sustained change (individual knowledge, attitudes and behaviour; institutional capacity and practice; community protection capacities; communication, trust and responsiveness between communities and relevant institutions).
• Attend selected trainings and field engagements, in coordination with programme leads, to observe delivery, test content and methods, collect baseline and follow-up evidence, and assess how participants apply learning.
• Support the development and application of conflict-sensitive approaches for assessing changes resulting from engagement with communities, security actors and government institutions.
• Support the development and maintenance of practical systems for assessing the influence of advocacy, policy and research work.
• Support the establishment and regular review of safe, accessible and context-appropriate channels through which community members, training participants and other stakeholders can give feedback or raise complaints about the organization’s activities.
• Support the use of evidence to strengthen programming (learning and reflection sessions, after-action reviews, outcome harvesting and learning exercises).

Profil recherché

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Development, Statistics, Political Science, Security Studies, Public Policy, Social Research or another relevant field (Master’s degree is an advantage).
• At least seven years of progressively responsible experience in MEAL, evaluation, research, evidence or programme quality, preferably including experience in conflict-affected settings, civilian protection or community safety.
• Demonstrated experience in programmes related to conflict prevention, stabilization, protection of civilians, security sector governance, community security, humanitarian protection, advocacy and policy influence, or institutional accountability strengthening.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the measurement of behavioural, relational, institutional or policy-level change.
• Experience assessing training and capacity strengthening beyond attendance and immediate pre/post testing.
• Experience with, or demonstrated understanding of, outcome harvesting, contribution analysis or other approaches suitable for measuring complex change.
• Experience supporting donor reporting, results verification and programme reviews.
• Strong understanding of conflict sensitivity, do-no-harm principles, research ethics and responsible data management.
• Good understanding of Somalia’s conflict, security, political and humanitarian context.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Somali.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly to high-risk and hard-to-access programme locations in Somalia, subject to security arrangements.
• Ability to engage professionally with military, police, state-level security forces and the African Union stabilization mission in Somalia.
• Direct experience with protection of civilians or civilian harm mitigation programming (desirable).
• Experience monitoring programmes involving military, police or other security institutions (desirable).
• Experience measuring community–security relationships, trust or institutional responsiveness (desirable).
• Experience assessing advocacy, policy influence or institutional reform (desirable).
• Experience working with government institutions, civil society, international NGOs, UN agencies and/or donors (desirable).
• Experience supporting accessible community feedback and complaints mechanisms, including confidential referral and safe handling of sensitive concerns (desirable).
• Strong experience with Kobo Toolbox, ODK, or similar digital data collection platforms (desirable).
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with Power BI or similar data visualization platforms (desirable).
• Familiarity with statistical or qualitative analysis software such as SPSS, Stata, R, NVivo or equivalent (desirable).

Conditions et avantages

• Contract duration: 12 months, with the possibility of extension.
• Duty Station: Mogadishu, Somalia, with approximately 50–60% of working time spent in field and programme locations.
• CIVIC is an Equal Opportunities Employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

Dossier de candidature

• Resume (to be submitted via TestGorilla for shortlisted candidates upon email invitation).

Comment postuler

Application Deadline: October 7, 2026.

Due to the high volume of applications, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Shortlisted candidates will receive an email invitation from TestGorilla to submit their resume. Please complete this step promptly to ensure your candidacy is fully considered.

Note to Recruiters and Placement Agencies: CIVIC does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by agencies other than its approved partners.

Click here to apply via CIVIC’s careers website.