Terre des hommes Romania is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager to join our MEAL department in Bucharest. The ideal candidate has strong experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), including in donor-funded, results-based programming.
If you are looking for a meaningful job that will make a lasting impact on the lives of children and youth, we want to meet you.
WHAT WE DO IN EUROPE AND ROMANIA
Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss child relief agency. Founded in 1960, we are committed to improving the lives of millions of the world's most vulnerable children. Through our innovative protection, migration, access to justice and health projects, we support more than 3 million children and their families in 26 countries each year.
Working in Romania since 1992, Terre des hommes is dedicated to child protection, being especially active in supporting the children affected by migration and ensuring fair and friendly access to justice for minors. We mobilize communities to prevent risk situations, and we collaborate with social workers, teachers and other professionals to protect children. We help them participate in making decisions that concern them, we invest in education, health, social services and infrastructure to improve life of disadvantaged children in Romania.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The MEAL Manager supports Tdh Romania in designing and implementing Tdh's Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) approach, ensuring that projects and programmes are high-quality, evidence-based and accountable to donors and beneficiaries.
With an increasing share of the portfolio financed through lumpsum and milestone-based grants, the role plays a central part in ensuring deliverables are robustly monitored, verified and documented to the standard required for results-based payment and audit.
The role reports to the Head of the delegation, with functional reporting to the Regional Quality & Accountability Coordinator – Europe and Asia and supervises the MEAL Officer.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the development and implementation of the country-level MEAL strategy, in line with Tdh policy and donor requirements
- Ensure deliverables under lumpsum and milestone-based grants are robustly monitored, verified and documented to audit-ready standards
- Develop and roll out MEAL systems, plans and tools, including deliverable-verification and milestone-evidence systems
- Provide methodological and technical support to teams and partner organisations, including drafting evaluation terms of reference and selecting/monitoring consultants
- Act as knowledge management focal point, developing tools to capture and organise evaluation findings and good practice
- Contribute to project proposals and programme design, including MEAL, logframe, theory-of-change and budget sections
- Design and implement project-specific accountability frameworks, including Complaint, Feedback and Response Mechanisms
- Participate in regional MEAL exchanges and Communities of Practice with the Europe and Asia Hub
- Ensure MEAL evidence informs operational and strategic decision-making in line with Tdh and donor requirements
- Understand and apply Tdh's policies on safeguarding, safety and fraud prevention
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- University degree in Social Science, Statistics, Development Studies, Social Work or a related field;
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in MEAL or quality and accountability, in an NGO/humanitarian or development context
- Demonstrated experience contributing to donor-funded project proposals (results frameworks, theory of change, logframes and MEAL sections)
- Familiarity with EU funding and reporting requirements (e.g. CERV, Daphne, AMIF, Horizon), including lumpsum/results-based grant modalities, is a strong asset
- Experience in project cycle management and facilitation of participatory processes
- Experience designing, planning and implementing quality and accountability processes (situation analysis, monitoring, evaluation, capitalisation)
- Advanced quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills, including software such as SPSS/STATA and MAXQDA/NVivo/Atlas.ti
- Previous experience measuring evidence-based outcomes and/or evaluating programmes; prior NGO experience, especially with children, is a strong asset
SKILLS & COMPETENCES
- Strong management and coaching skills, with experience supervising and developing a team
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to cooperate with diverse stakeholders
- High computer literacy with full command of MS Office (advanced Excel), data visualisation tools and mobile data collection platforms (e.g. KoBoToolbox, ODK)
- Fluency in English and Romanian (written and spoken)
TO APPLY:
Qualified applicants are encouraged to submit their CV and motivation in English to [email protected]
Please include “MEAL Manager, your name and surname” in the subject line of the application email.
Child Safeguarding Policy:
To commit to respect Tdh Risk Management Policies including: Child Safeguarding Policy, Code of conduct.
GDPR compliance:
By sending your application, you agree that your personal data will be used in the recruitment process. All the documents we will request in different steps of the recruitment process will only be used for this purpose.
All staff involved in recruitment and selection are aware that data protection rules apply, and that personal information will be treated confidentially. According to our policy, we will keep your application documents for the period of the recruitment only.
Due to an anticipated high number of applications, Tdh is not able to respond to every applicant individually. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the first interview.
