About the Job
\nVacancy Announcement<\/p>\n
MEAL Coordinator – Gambella<\/p>\n
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Dan Church Aid (DCA) is a Denmark-based international NGO registered under certificate # 1083 by the Authority for Civil Society Organizations and working to improve the wellbeing of particularly the rural and pre-urban people in Ethiopia. DCA\u2019s Programme mainly focus on save live, building resilience and fighting inequality targeting highly disaster-prone areas in Oromia, Amhara, Afar, and Gambella regions.<\/p>\n
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Currently, the DCA Ethiopia Office is looking for a competent MEAL Coordinator. The MEAL Coordinator, play leading role for the development of effective M&E systems at field office level & lead field level MEAL and documentation system.<\/p>\n
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Vacancy Number: DCA-Eth\/VA-020\/2026<\/p>\n
Vacancy Date: July 08,2026<\/p>\n
Post Title: MEAL Coordinator<\/p>\n
Required number: One<\/p>\n
Type of Contract: One year with a possibility of extension depending on<\/p>\n
Funding.<\/p>\n
Duty Station: Gambella<\/p>\n
Reporting to: Programme Area Manager<\/p>\n
Expected Start Date: August 1,2026<\/p>\n
Application Deadline: July 17,2026<\/p>\n
Salary: According to DCA national staff salary scale<\/p>\n
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Position Objective<\/p>\n
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DCA Gambella Field Office implements a portfolio of humanitarian and development programming for South Sudanese refugees and host communities, including the EU INTIPA climate smart livelihood project in Luakdong host community, implemented with consortium partners, and the Humanitarian Crisis Fund (HCF) emergency fresh food e-voucher response in Luakdong refugee camp. DCA is looking for a competent MEAL Coordinator to lead monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning across these interventions, and to coordinate key food security and livelihood (FSL) deliverables that ensure program quality on the ground.<\/p>\n
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Purpose<\/p>\n
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The MEAL Coordinator leads the monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) function for DCA\u2019s programmes in Gambella, including the EU INTIPA Climate-Smart Livelihoods Project and the HCF Emergency Fresh Food Voucher Response in Luakdong. The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective MEAL systems; ensuring quality data collection, analysis, and reporting; facilitating assessments, surveys, evaluations, monitoring visits, and learning processes; and strengthening accountability to beneficiaries, donors, and partners. The coordinator also oversees key food security and livelihoods coordination tasks, including beneficiary verification, market monitoring, and the technical quality of livelihood and e-voucher interventions, while providing technical support to project staff and contributing to overall programme and team management in collaboration with the Program Area Manager.<\/p>\n
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Engagement:<\/p>\n
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Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of MEAL systems, tools, and processes, ensuring alignment with DCA standards, donor requirements, and humanitarian accountability frameworks.
\nCollaborate closely with Programme Managers, technical teams, and support functions to integrate monitoring, accountability, learning, and evidence generation into project implementation.
\nProvide technical leadership and guidance to project staff on MEAL systems, data quality, reporting, accountability mechanisms, and results-based management.
\nFacilitate regular review, reflection, and learning sessions to support adaptive management and evidence-based decision-making.
\nPromote a culture of accountability, learning, data utilization, and performance management across project teams.
\nSupport project design, proposal development, logframe design, indicator formulation, target setting, and results framework development.
\nStrengthen staff capacity through coaching, mentoring, training, and technical support.
\nRepresent DCA in MEAL-related coordination forums, technical working groups, clusters, and stakeholder meetings.
\nMaintain effective working relationships with RRS, UNHCR, government authorities, donors, consortium members, implementing partners, and other humanitarian actors.
\nCollaborate with partners to strengthen data quality, accountability systems, learning initiatives, and programme effectiveness.
\nEngage with communities and beneficiaries to promote Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP).
\nContribute to organizational visibility through reports, case studies, success stories, learning briefs, and other evidence products.
\nDelivery<\/p>\n
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Lead the establishment, implementation, and continuous improvement of project MEAL systems, including MEAL Plans, DIPs, IPTTs, databases, dashboards, and digital data collection platforms.
\nEnsure timely collection, verification, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of high-quality quantitative and qualitative data.
\nCoordinate assessments, baseline studies, post-distribution monitoring, DQAs, end-line surveys, evaluations, and other MEAL-related activities.
\nMonitor project progress against indicators, targets, budgets, and expenditure plans, providing timely analysis and recommendations.
\nMaintain robust data management systems that ensure data accuracy, integrity, confidentiality, accessibility, and compliance with data protection requirements.
\nProduce and review high-quality donor, partner, and internal reports.
\nManage Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mechanisms.
\nFacilitate learning, knowledge management, and evidence generation processes.
\nConduct regular field monitoring visits to assess implementation quality and verify results.
\nEnsure compliance with CHS, Sphere Standards, safeguarding, gender, inclusion, and data protection requirements.
\nPromote the effective use of KoboToolbox, ODK, RedRose, Power BI, and other digital platforms.
\nStrengthen the capacity of staff and partners through coaching, mentoring, training, and technical support.<\/p>\n
About You
\nJob Requirements<\/p>\n
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Master\u2019s degree in statistics, economics, development studies (Agricultural Economics) or another related fields.
\nMinimum six years of relevant experience in MEAL, program quality, or related humanitarian\/development work.
\nProven experience designing and managing MEAL systems, including DIPs, IPTTs, digital data collection platforms, data quality assurance, analysis, and reporting.
\nStrong understanding of humanitarian programming, accountability frameworks, and international standards, including CHS and Sphere.
\nExperience working with NGOs and humanitarian agencies, preferably in refugee and displacement settings.
\nGood knowledge of the refugee response context in Ethiopia, particularly in Gambella, is an advantage.
\nProficiency in digital data collection and analysis tools such as KoboToolbox\/ODK, Excel, Power BI, RedRose or similar platforms.
\nStrong analytical, report-writing, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
\nAbility to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and support teams in a dynamic operational environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","job_listing_type":[17],"job_listing_category":[217],"job_listing_location":[4],"job_listing_tag":[],"class_list":["post-39458","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job_listing_type-full-time","job_listing_category-psychiatry-psychology-and-social-work","job_listing_location-addis-ababa"],"metas":{"_job_logo":"https:\/\/beleqet.com\/vacancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-job-board-pro-uploads\/_job_logo\/2026\/07\/Dan-Church-Aid.webp","custom-text-26140818":"Dan Church Aid","_job_featured":"","_job_tag":[],"_job_filled":"","_job_urgent":"","_job_type":{"17":"Full Time"},"custom-select-24762152":"Onsite","_job_category":{"217":"Psychiatry, Psychology And Social Work"},"_job_expiry_date":"","_job_gender":"Both","_job_salary_type":"monthly","custom-number-21785310":"","_job_experience":"Senior","custom-select-25910079":"10+ Years","_job_qualification":"Bachelor Degree","_job_application_deadline_date":"2026-07-17","_job_location":{"4":"Addis Ababa"},"_job_apply_type":"external","_job_apply_url":"https:\/\/dca-1.career.emply.com\/ad\/meal-coordinator-gambella\/skafhk","_job_apply_email":"","_job_phone":"","_job_employer_name":"Beleqet Jobs","_job_employer_url":"https:\/\/beleqet.com\/vacancy\/employer\/meseret\/"},"beleqet_data":{"_job_employer_posted_by":"9629","_job_logo_img":"https:\/\/beleqet.com\/vacancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-job-board-pro-uploads\/_job_logo\/2026\/07\/Dan-Church-Aid.webp","_job_logo":"https:\/\/beleqet.com\/vacancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-job-board-pro-uploads\/_job_logo\/2026\/07\/Dan-Church-Aid.webp","custom-text-26140818":"Dan Church Aid","_job_title":"MEAL Coordinator","_job_type":"17","custom-select-24762152":"Onsite","_job_category":"217","_job_gender":"Both","_job_salary_type":"monthly","_job_experience":"Senior","custom-select-25910079":"10+ Years","_job_qualification":"Bachelor Degree","_job_application_deadline_date":"2026-07-17","_job_location":"4","_job_description":"About the Job\r\nVacancy Announcement\r\n\r\nMEAL Coordinator - Gambella\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDan Church Aid (DCA) is a Denmark-based international NGO registered under certificate # 1083 by the Authority for Civil Society Organizations and working to improve the wellbeing of particularly the rural and pre-urban people in Ethiopia. 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