Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Lead

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Lead TEAM/PROGRAMME: Programme Development & Quality LOCATION: Lusaka, Zambia GRADE : NAT 2 Safeguarding: Save the Children does not tolerate any form of exploitation, abuse, or harassment against any person. It is the responsibility of all employees and representatives to protect all people who come in contact with our organization. Save the Children commits to applying the same standards to all its employees and subject them to the same processes regardless of their position, influence, or reputation within or outside of the organization. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Save the Children International’s Diversity Policy, aims to promote equal opportunity in employment and to ban any kind of discrimination based on sex, age, social class, disability, HIV status, religion, race and ethnicity. ROLE PURPOSE: The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Lead will be responsible for providing leadership to strengthen organizational capacity to design and implement effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning systems. S/he will have an integral leadership role within the Programme Development and Quality (PDQ) department and work closely with Technical Specialists, Programme Managers and other departments. S/he will actively seek to incorporate innovation, best practices, and lessons learned for improvement of programme quality. The role will include capacity building of MEAL and programme/partner staff; strategic and annual planning, internal reporting, as well as programme development SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Programme Director Staff reporting to this post: 1+ (the role will have either direct or matrix line management of project MEAL staff) Role Dimensions : The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regio