MEAL Coordinator Innovation Project
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Job Summary
With 75 years of experience our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds even in the most dangerous places inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33000 staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable childrens life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
The Innovation Project MEAL Coordinator is responsible for leading evidence generation monitoring accountability and learning for the innovation meal project(s).
The role ensures that innovative meal interventions are data-driven child-centred accountable to communities and generate credible evidence to inform program improvement scale-up and policy influence.
The position will play a critical role in linking AIM data citizen voice school-level evidence and innovation learning to decision-making advocacy and national-level engagement (including ENOUGH campaign and school meal policy influence).
Major Responsibilities
- Monitoring & Evaluation of Innovation Meal Projects (30%)
- Design and coordinate the MEAL framework for innovation meal interventions.
- Develop indicators tools and data collection plans aligned with AIMCVA database nutrition outcomes attendance and child well-being.
- Support teams to analyze and apply project results and local evidence in problem definition and solution design.
- Ensure innovation projects demonstrate clear outcome pathways linked to child results.
- Work closely with MEAL and technical teams to integrate monitoring learning and adaptive management
- Coordinate engagement with internal staff across programs operations advocacy and technical
- Support collaboration with external partners including Wayamba University technology partners NGOs
- Facilitate coaching and mentoring processes with innovation reviewers and technical experts.
- Develop and maintain innovation project tracking tools and dashboards.
- Ensure compliance with WV policies safeguarding standards and financial procedures
- Support teams to assess scale potential sustainability pathways and system integration opportunities.
- Assist in identifying donor alignment and external funding opportunities
Required qualifications experience & competencies
- Bachelors degree in Development Studies Public Health Nutrition Education Social Sciences Innovation or a related field.
- Masters degree is an advantage.
- Minimum 23 years of experience in project coordination programme implementation innovation or research-linked programming
- Strong understanding of innovation processes pilot implementation and adaptive management.
- Ability to interpret and use data and evidence to inform programming
- Proficiency in English (written and spoken).
- Working knowledge of Sinhala and/or Tamil is an asset.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants OnlyRequired Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Visio
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Project Management
- Sharepoint
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Administrative Experience
- Project Coordination
About Company
World Vision International, Christian relief and development organisation, dedicated to helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life.
