[Hiring] Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Advisor @Elba Hope Foundation

Role Description

The Elba Hope Foundation is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Advisor to strengthen the organization’s approach to program monitoring, performance measurement, learning, and reporting across programs in the United Kingdom (UK), Sierra Leone (SL), and the United States (US).

The Advisor will develop a practical, harmonized MEAL framework that supports consistent measurement across the organization while allowing for appropriate adaptation to each country and program context. A core focus of the assignment will be to establish the plans, tools, workflows, and systems required for continued monitoring beyond the consultancy period.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop MEAL plans and frameworks for each program.
• Define appropriate indicators, data sources, collection methods, responsibilities, and reporting schedules.
• Develop standardized and context-specific monitoring and data collection tools.
• Establish workflows and systems for routine collection, validation, analysis, reporting, and use of program data.
• Strengthen organizational capacity to maintain and use the MEAL system on an ongoing basis.
• Support staff training, documentation, and handover to ensure sustainability after the consultancy ends.

Qualifications

• Significant professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning.
• Experience designing organizational or multi-program MEAL systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing MEAL plans, indicators, data collection tools, and reporting frameworks.
• Experience building monitoring workflows and sustainable data management processes.
• Strong understanding of quantitative and qualitative monitoring methods.
• Experience supporting programs operating across multiple countries or contexts.
• Ability to translate technical MEAL concepts into practical tools for program staff.
• Experience delivering staff training and capacity building.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, and technical writing skills.
• Experience working with global programs, or comparable contexts is desirable.

Deliverables

• Contract Execution & Approved Workplan: Finalized contract; kickoff meeting; agreed methodology, workplan, consultation schedule, and document/data request.
• MEAL Diagnostic & Implementation Priorities: Focused assessment of existing MEAL practices, tools, data, partner reporting, prior research, and staff capacity across the three programs; identification of gaps and assets that can be retained; prioritized recommendations for system development.
• EHF Organizational MEAL Framework & Master Indicator Framework: One common EHF results and measurement architecture; manageable organizational and program indicator set; indicator definitions, data sources, collection frequencies, responsibilities, quality standards, reporting expectations, and approach to learning and adaptation.
• Program MEAL Plans: Operational measurement plans/matrices focused on Hope Power Project, with lighter engagements for Creative Futures and DYSF.
• MEAL Toolkit & Accountability Tools: Standardized data-collection and reporting templates; partner reporting tools; participant feedback and outcome tools; longitudinal follow-up tools where appropriate; data-quality checks; learning/reflection templates; and necessary Hope Power-specific tools.
• EHF Data Workflow & MEAL SOPs: Practical organization-wide workflow covering data collection/receipt, partner submission, validation, entry, storage, review, reporting, escalation, learning, and use.
• Google Sheets Performance Tracking System & Dashboard: Operational Google Sheets-based single source of truth for approved EHF program metrics; standardized data structures; program and organizational views; targets and actuals where appropriate; automated summaries/charts; validation controls; and instructions for routine updating and maintenance.
• Staff Training & System Launch: Practical training for EHF staff who will enter, validate, manage, or use MEAL data.
• Live Pilot, Refinement & Final Handover: Support for one live reporting and data-collection cycle; assessment of usability, data quality, indicator clarity, workflow, and dashboard performance.

Benefits

• Flexible remote work environment.
• Opportunity to support sustainable and accountable M&E for a growing global nonprofit.
• Collaborative, mission-driven team with meaningful international impact.

Application Instructions

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter describing your experience and fit for the role. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

We are seeking candidates who bring a deep contextual understanding of Africa and a strong alignment with our mission and values. This may come through lived experience, long-term professional engagement, or meaningful personal connection to the regions and communities we serve.

The Elba Hope Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.