Internals Only MEAL Team Lead (Cluster)

POSITIONIN WAR CHILD ALLIANCE

• Lead the design implementation and continuous improvement of organizational MEAL strategies frameworks standards and tools ensuring alignment with organizational priorities accountability commitments and evidence needs.
• Support resultsbased planning and strategic program design processes including the development validation and use of theories of change to guide planning implementation monitoring and learning
• Lead the integration and operationalization of QualityofCare indicators within the War Child Alliance implementing partners and strategic partners ensuring consistent application and use for performance monitoring and improvement.
• Lead the onboarding of partners and implementing teams on Quality of Care and MEAL systems for EBMs and EIMs providing ongoing technical support to ensure effective application and use.
• Oversee technical quality assurance of MEAL systems processes and data including standardization of indicators interpretation of results and evidence generation to ensure credibility comparability and use.
• Strengthen organizational learning and adaptive management through consolidation and use of evidence and insights.
• Build and strengthen MEAL capacity across teams and partners through guidance tools training mentoring and onthejob technical support.
• Lead the operationalization of the MEAL localization agenda including application of the localization matrix and support to partnerled MEAL systems capacities and leadership in line with organizational commitments.
• Contribute to the development of the organizational MEAL strategy and MEAL positioning within the Alliance.
• Line manages MEAL Coordinators and oversees the performance coherence and effectiveness of the MEAL function across contexts where applicable

• Provide leadership on Humanitarian MEAL ensuring contextappropriate timely and adaptive MEAL approaches that support rapid decisionmaking accountability to affected populations and learning (through coordinating After Action Reviews) in emergency and fragile contexts.
• Lead development and governance of Quality of Care and Reach indicator guidance systems and tools.
• Support the design oversight and strengthening of accountability and feedback mechanisms to ensure meaningful participation of affected populations and response to community feedback.
• Establish and maintain EBM and reach dashboards consolidating program delivery and learning insights.
• Ensure ethical safe and responsible data collection management and use in line with data protection safeguarding and organizational policies.
• Promote systematic use of MEAL evidence and learning to inform program adaptation strategic decisionmaking and organizational priorities.
• Provide technical MEAL inputs to donor engagement proposal development and compliance with evidence and reporting requirements.
• Promote alignment and coherence of MEAL Quality of Care and evidence systems across the War Child Alliance.
• Support multisectoral technical and rapid needs and strengths assessments.
• Ensure internal and external communication of MEAL and learning results including contributions to communications products.
• Represent War Child in relevant global and interagency MEAL quality and evidence networks.
• Undertake regular travel to support implementation oversight and learning.

• Location : We work with global teams with team members being based in different locations. War Child is currently operates in: Afghanistan the Central African Republic Colombia DR Congo Germany Jordan Lebanon the occupied Palestinian territory South Sudan Sweden Syria Uganda Ukraine (soon to be registered) and Yemen. We also have offices in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Preference is given to applicants who reside and have valid working permits. War Child does not offer relocation.
• Type of Contract : Local contract with salary and secondary labour conditions based on the in-country salary scale local T&Cs will apply.
• Internals only may apply.

• Meaningful Impact :Contribute directly to improving the lives of children and families affected by conflict through quality education and long-term sustainable change.
• Professional Growth:Join a dynamic organisation that values learning innovation and professional development with opportunities for capacity building and growth through the role and War Childs global network.
• Global Reach :Play a key role in scaling a ground-breaking programme across multiple conflict-affected contexts worldwide.
• Collaborative & Inclusive Culture :Work alongside passionate mission-driven colleagues in a diverse inclusive and respectful workplace that prioritises safety fairness and equal opportunity for all.