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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer (Volunteer) at The Youth and Women Peacebuilding Foundation (YAWP Foundation)
The Youth and Women Peacebuilding Foundation (YAWP Foundation)
September 16, 2026
Full-time
On-site
Position Summary
The MEL Officer designs, establishes, and maintains user-friendly monitoring and evaluation systems across all youth and women empowerment projects.
The role ensures data collected from the field directly informs project adaptations, demonstrates accountability to donor requirements, captures gender-transformative changes, and elevates youth and women's voices through participatory evaluation techniques.
Core Responsibilities
MEL System Design & Indicator Tracking:
Develop project-specific MEL frameworks, indicator tracking tables (ITTs), and logic models tailored to gender equality, social inclusion, and youth development goals.
Integrate gender-sensitive and age-disaggregated indicators to track participation, decision-making power, economic empowerment, and protection outcomes.
Establish user-friendly data collection tools (digital surveys, focus group guides, baseline/endline tools and KII) using mobile platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare).
Field Data Collection & Quality Assurance:
Oversee routine monitoring activities, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness across project locations.
Conduct field visits to observe activity implementation, verify attendance logs, and audit data collected by youth/women volunteers or community enumerators.
Train project staff and field enumerators on data collection ethics, informed consent, and safeguarding principles when working with young people and vulnerable women.
Accountability & Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM):
Establish and manage safe, confidential, and accessible community feedback and response mechanisms (e.g., feedback boxes, helplines, participatory review sessions).
Ensure feedback from young women, adolescent girls, and marginalized youth is systematically analyzed, referred to management, and acted upon.
Integrate Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) pathways into routine feedback channels.
Learning, Knowledge Management & Storytelling:
Facilitate quarterly learning review sessions with program teams to analyze data, identify bottlenecks, and adapt implementation strategies in real time.
Capture qualitative impact using participatory methodologies like Most Significant Change (MSC), outcome harvesting, and digital storytelling/photovoice.
Draft comprehensive MEL sections for donor narrative reports, case studies, and policy briefs.
Requirements & Qualifications
Applicants should have:
A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree / HND in Data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, research skills, or a related field.
At least 2 years in evidence-based research, data analysis, project monitoring and evaluation, or a similar role.
Good communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Google Workspace and relevant digital tools.
Experience working with NGOs, communities, youth, women, or other relevant stakeholders is an advantage.
Applicants must demonstrate integrity, professionalism, confidentiality, and commitment to safeguarding.
Key Technical Competencies:
Methodologies- Gender-sensitive MEL, Participatory Action Research, Most Significant Change (MSC), Outcome Harvesting, Do No Harm.
Digital Tools- KoboToolbox / ODK, Power BI / Excel, SPSS or Stata (basic to intermediate), Google Workspace.
Frameworks- Logical Frameworks, Theory of Change, SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work), and youth inclusion matrices.
Soft Skills- Youth-friendly facilitation, ethical data handling, active listening, cross-cultural sensitivity, report writing.
Other Attributes:
Strong leadership and team management skills.
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement abilities.
Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Commitment to humanitarian and development values, volunteerism, and community service.
Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities.
Benefits of Volunteering with YAWP Foundation
Opportunity to contribute to life-saving humanitarian, development and peace interventions.
Practical experience in program leadership and humanitarian coordination.
Exposure to donor engagement, proposal development, and project management.
Professional networking opportunities with humanitarian actors and development partners.
Capacity-building and learning opportunities.
Certificate of Service and Recommendation Letter upon successful completion of the volunteer period.
Opportunity for future engagement subject to organizational needs and performance.
The MEL Officer designs, establishes, and maintains user-friendly monitoring and evaluation systems across all youth and women empowerment projects.
The role ensures data collected from the field directly informs project adaptations, demonstrates accountability to donor requirements, captures gender-transformative changes, and elevates youth and women's voices through participatory evaluation techniques.
Core Responsibilities
MEL System Design & Indicator Tracking:
Develop project-specific MEL frameworks, indicator tracking tables (ITTs), and logic models tailored to gender equality, social inclusion, and youth development goals.
Integrate gender-sensitive and age-disaggregated indicators to track participation, decision-making power, economic empowerment, and protection outcomes.
Establish user-friendly data collection tools (digital surveys, focus group guides, baseline/endline tools and KII) using mobile platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare).
Field Data Collection & Quality Assurance:
Oversee routine monitoring activities, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness across project locations.
Conduct field visits to observe activity implementation, verify attendance logs, and audit data collected by youth/women volunteers or community enumerators.
Train project staff and field enumerators on data collection ethics, informed consent, and safeguarding principles when working with young people and vulnerable women.
Accountability & Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM):
Establish and manage safe, confidential, and accessible community feedback and response mechanisms (e.g., feedback boxes, helplines, participatory review sessions).
Ensure feedback from young women, adolescent girls, and marginalized youth is systematically analyzed, referred to management, and acted upon.
Integrate Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) pathways into routine feedback channels.
Learning, Knowledge Management & Storytelling:
Facilitate quarterly learning review sessions with program teams to analyze data, identify bottlenecks, and adapt implementation strategies in real time.
Capture qualitative impact using participatory methodologies like Most Significant Change (MSC), outcome harvesting, and digital storytelling/photovoice.
Draft comprehensive MEL sections for donor narrative reports, case studies, and policy briefs.
Requirements & Qualifications
Applicants should have:
A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree / HND in Data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, research skills, or a related field.
At least 2 years in evidence-based research, data analysis, project monitoring and evaluation, or a similar role.
Good communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Google Workspace and relevant digital tools.
Experience working with NGOs, communities, youth, women, or other relevant stakeholders is an advantage.
Applicants must demonstrate integrity, professionalism, confidentiality, and commitment to safeguarding.
Key Technical Competencies:
Methodologies- Gender-sensitive MEL, Participatory Action Research, Most Significant Change (MSC), Outcome Harvesting, Do No Harm.
Digital Tools- KoboToolbox / ODK, Power BI / Excel, SPSS or Stata (basic to intermediate), Google Workspace.
Frameworks- Logical Frameworks, Theory of Change, SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work), and youth inclusion matrices.
Soft Skills- Youth-friendly facilitation, ethical data handling, active listening, cross-cultural sensitivity, report writing.
Other Attributes:
Strong leadership and team management skills.
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement abilities.
Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Commitment to humanitarian and development values, volunteerism, and community service.
Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities.
Benefits of Volunteering with YAWP Foundation
Opportunity to contribute to life-saving humanitarian, development and peace interventions.
Practical experience in program leadership and humanitarian coordination.
Exposure to donor engagement, proposal development, and project management.
Professional networking opportunities with humanitarian actors and development partners.
Capacity-building and learning opportunities.
Certificate of Service and Recommendation Letter upon successful completion of the volunteer period.
Opportunity for future engagement subject to organizational needs and performance.