MERL Officer — Hybrid, Flexible Hours, Data for Impact

CAMFED - Campaign for Female Education; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

CAMFED - Campaign for Female Education in Cambridge is seeking a MERL Officer to support monitoring, evaluation and learning across programmes for girls’ education. You will provide data assistance, manage information from CAMFED’s programmes and external sources, and contribute insights for learning and reporting.

This full-time, hybrid role is maternity cover and starts on or before 1 December 2026, offering the chance to apply rigorous data analysis to inform strategy and communicate impact

Qualifications

• Experience in monitoring, evaluation, research or data analysis.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in Excel; Salesforce experience desirable.
• Knowledge of data quality and management.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to CAMFED MERL teams, linking National Office and UK MERL.
• Support Salesforce programme database: run reports and assist staff.
• Contribute to proposals by mapping objectives to indicators and budgets.
• Help monitor CAMFED programmes, update forms and analyse data.
• Analyse programme information and flag issues to managers.
• Assist with writing up quantitative and qualitative data for learning and reporting.
• Help collate KPIs and communicate them.
• Provide technical and coordination support in programme evaluations.
• Perform other duties as required by Head of MERL.

Skills

Monitoring and evaluation

Data analysis

Microsoft Excel

SPSS

Research methods

Communication skills

Independent work

Tools

Salesforce

SPSS

Job description

CAMFED - Campaign for Female Education in Cambridge is seeking a MERL Officer to support monitoring, evaluation and learning across programmes for girls’ education. You will provide data assistance, manage information from CAMFED’s programmes and external sources, and contribute insights for learning and reporting.

This full-time, hybrid role is maternity cover and starts on or before 1 December 2026, offering the chance to apply rigorous data analysis to inform strategy and communicate impact