MEAL Coordinator - Flood Emergency Response

About the role

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is looking for a MEAL Coordinator to join its Bhotekoshi Flood Emergency Response team in Nuwakot, Nepal. The coordinator implements and supports all project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) activities, gives technical guidance to the Caritas team and helps apply emergency response best practices in MEAL so that the benefits reach those served.

Key responsibilities

• Organize and lead project MEAL activities, including ICT for MEAL support, in line with CRS quality principles, standards, policies and donor requirements.
• Ensure learning accompanies project activities throughout the project cycle and lead accountability mechanisms such as the Feedback, Complaints and Responses Mechanism (FCRM) and Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM).
• Analyze implementation challenges, especially data management and reporting, and report inconsistencies and gaps.
• Collect and verify monitoring data through spot checks, field observations and annual data quality assessments.
• Support community feedback, coordinate field-level MEAL activities and build relationships with local stakeholders.
• Support MEAL capacity building and coordinate logistical and administrative support for staff and partners.
• Keep MEAL documentation complete and assist with data analysis reports, case studies and documentation of promising practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree required; a degree in international relations or in MEAL is an advantage.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in an M&E role in an emergency or development context.
• Fluent oral and written Nepali and English; ability to communicate in local languages is an asset.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% to field sites and other offices.
• Open to Nepal national candidates only.

Required skills

• Strong experience with data collection platforms such as CommCare or Kobo.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting data, and in participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Proficiency in MS Windows and MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Preferred: Master's degree, certifications in data analytics, spatial analysis and mapping, research, information management and AI, Power BI, and experience working with local partners or in an NGO.

What we offer

• Paid maternity and paternity leave and nursing hours for nursing mothers.
• Per diems for children of staff traveling out of station on official business.
• Medical and group insurance.