Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator

Join SEED Madagascar as a MEL Coordinator in Fort Dauphin, managing a team and overseeing diverse programs in community health, education, and conservation.

• Lead the design and refinement of MEL procedures across programmes including livelihoods, education, WASH, community health and conservation in collaboration with project teams
• Work with Programme Managers in ensuring alignment of MEL across projects and provide oversight to SEED organisational tracking
• Ensure MEL approaches are inclusive, ethical, and aligned with international standards and SEED’s policies, including safeguarding and anti-corruption
• Line manage a team of up to three MEL Officers, conducting regular supervision, reviewing outputs, editing and overseeing report writing, setting objectives, and supporting their development
• Support MEL Officers in refining evaluation designs, ensuring alignment with project objectives and practical implementation capacity.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance for MEL plans, log frames and data gathering tools (surveys, observation checklists, interview questions and needs assessments)
• Directly lead on the development and analysis of data gathering tools for projects without dedicated MEL staff
• Collaborate with Programme Managers to action MEL findings, identify improvement areas and shape adaptive project changes
• Deliver tailored MEL training and capacity building to international and national staff, including new staff onboarding
• Identify and support cross-team learning between departments, including leading cross-programmatic MEL processes
• Contribute to internal and donor reporting through periodic analysis and tailored recommendations
• Provide core support to the Director of Programmes and Operations ensuring the support and security of all international staff, including acting as an intermediary of organisational priorities to the wider team
• Ensure all of SEED’s policies and procedures are evident throughout the work of the department, including those for safeguarding, whistleblowing and anti-corruption, and undertake continual training to ensure these are promoted at all times
• Undertake other tasks within the broad scope of MEL support as agreed with the Director of Programmes and Operations.