Provincial MEAL & MIS Lead

Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy; Quetta City Tehsil; On-site; PKR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Relief International in Pakistan seeks a Provincial MEAL Officer to coordinate MEAL and MIS activities for multiple projects. You will supervise district MEAL staff, ensure data quality, and support evidence-based decision-making across program teams.

You will lead monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts, manage data systems like KoboToolbox, and contribute to donor reporting. Strong English and Urdu, plus field travel, are expected.

Qualifications

• 4-year bachelor or master's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Public Health or a related field.
• 4 years’ experience in MEAL and Data Management/MIS, preferably with an NGO/INGO.
• Demonstrated experience in supervising MEAL and/or MIS staff.
• Experience in project monitoring, evaluations, assessments, data quality assurance, and donor reporting.
• Strong knowledge of MEAL frameworks, logical frameworks, indicator tracking, data analysis, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate MEAL and MIS functions for assigned projects across the province under the Country MEAL Manager’s technical direction.
• Develop and implement provincial MEAL and MIS work plans, field monitoring schedules and reporting calendars aligned with approved project objectives, organizational policies and donor requirements.
• Ensure effective integration of MEAL and MIS into project design, implementation, monitoring, reporting, learning, and decision-making.
• Provide technical leadership on monitoring, evaluation, data management, accountability, learning, and evidence-based programming.
• Coordinate closely with program, finance, operations, safeguarding, and other support teams to strengthen data flow, reporting, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Monitor project implementation across target districts against planned outputs, outcomes, indicators, milestones, and objectives.
• Conduct regular field monitoring visits to assess the quality, relevance, timeliness, effectiveness, inclusion, and compliance of project activities.
• Maintain IPTTs using approved indicator definitions, targets, reporting periods, calculation methods and supporting evidence.
• Distinguish unique participants, households, sessions and repeat service contacts; use identifiers and deduplication rules.
• Analyse monitoring findings, identify implementation gaps and risks, and maintain a corrective-action tracker.
• Quality-assure MEAL data and results sections of reports before submission.
• Ensure timely submission of accurate and quality-assured reports to project management and the Country MEAL function.
• Maintain and improve approved project MIS tools and data collection forms (KoboToolbox/ODK).
• Maintain project databases, dashboards, and data repositories to support program management.

Skills

MEAL Monitoring

Data Management

Quality Assurance

Reporting

Stakeholder Coordination

English Proficiency

Urdu Proficiency

Team Leadership

Education

4-year bachelor or masters in Statistics/CS/IT/MIS/Public Health or related

Tools

KoboToolbox

ODK

Power BI

Excel

Dashboards

Job description

Relief International in Pakistan seeks a Provincial MEAL Officer to coordinate MEAL and MIS activities for multiple projects. You will supervise district MEAL staff, ensure data quality, and support evidence-based decision-making across program teams.

You will lead monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts, manage data systems like KoboToolbox, and contribute to donor reporting. Strong English and Urdu, plus field travel, are expected.