Background

World Relief is an international Christian NGO working in health, economic development, disaster response, and refugee resettlement. World Relief’s mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church.

World Relief invites applications from interested and qualified candidates to fill the following vacant position:

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Assistant supports the implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) activities across project implementation sites. The position is responsible for routine data collection, verification, quality assurance, reporting, field monitoring, and capacity building to ensure the availability of accurate, timely and reliable data for program management and donor reporting.

The MEL Assistant is a roving field-based position supporting multiple implementation sites. The incumbent works closely with Project Coordinators to monitor implementation progress and reports administratively to the Project District Leads and technically to the MEL Manager.

Responsibilities

1. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Data Management

• Collect, verify, analyze, and report project data from implementation sites.
• Conduct data quality assessments, validation, cleaning, and ensure timely data entry into databases and electronic systems.
• Track project performance against indicators and contribute to regular donor and project reports.
• Support surveys, evaluations, assessments, and research activities.

2. Field Technical Support and Capacity Building

• Conduct supervision and monitoring visits to assess project implementation and data quality.
• Train, mentor and support staff, health workers, and community groups on data management and reporting.
• Assist in implementing digital health and electronic reporting systems, including mobile data collection tools.
• Identify operational challenges and recommend improvements to enhance project outcomes and information systems.

3. Coordination, Learning, and Accountability

• Collaborate with project teams, government stakeholders, and partners to strengthen monitoring and reporting processes.
• Support beneficiary feedback systems and document lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.
• Participate in review meetings, learning sessions, and quality improvement initiatives to promote data-driven decision-making.
• Perform other MEL-related responsibilities assigned by supervisors.

Qualifications and Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate Degree in Statistics, Public Health, Monitoring & Evaluation, Health Information Systems, Demography, Social Sciences or related fields.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation within health or development programmes.
• Experience working with donor-funded projects is an added advantage.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) principles.
• Experience using DHIS2, Kobo Collect, ODK, CommCare or other electronic data collection systems.
• Good skills in data management, validation, analysis, and report writing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. Knowledge of SPSS, STATA or Power Bl is an added advantage.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel extensively to project implementation sites and work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Alignment with World Relief values.

• Collect, verify, analyze, and report project data from implementation sites.
• Conduct data quality assessments, validation, cleaning, and ensure timely data entry into databases and electronic systems.
• Track project performance against indicators and contribute to regular donor and project reports.
• Support surveys, evaluations, assessments, and research activities.
• Conduct supervision and monitoring visits to assess project implementation and data quality.
• Train, mentor and support staff, health workers, and community groups on data management and reporting.
• Assist in implementing digital health and electronic reporting systems, including mobile data collection tools.
• Identify operational challenges and recommend improvements to enhance project outcomes and information systems.
• Collaborate with project teams, government stakeholders, and partners to strengthen monitoring and reporting processes.
• Support beneficiary feedback systems and document lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.
• Participate in review meetings, learning sessions, and quality improvement initiatives to promote data-driven decision-making.
• Perform other MEL-related responsibilities assigned by supervisors.

• Knowledge of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) principles.
• Experience using DHIS2, Kobo Collect, ODK, CommCare or other electronic data collection systems.
• Good skills in data management, validation, analysis, and report writing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel. Knowledge of SPSS, STATA or Power Bl is an added advantage.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel extensively to project implementation sites and work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Alignment with World Relief values.

• Undergraduate Degree in Statistics, Public Health, Monitoring & Evaluation, Health Information Systems, Demography, Social Sciences or related fields.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation within health or development programmes.
• Experience working with donor-funded projects is an added advantage.