Vacancy title:
Monitoring Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Social Services & Nonprofit, Business Operations, Healthcare, Education]

Jobs at:
Save the Children

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, August 14 2026

Duty Station:
Lusaka | Lusaka

Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, August 1 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

INTRODUCTION [PROJECT OVERVIEW]

Save the Children (SCI) is the world’s leading independent non-profit organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation. SCI’s Mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting changes in their lives. In Zambia, Save the Children has been implementing programmes since 1983 across Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, Child Poverty, and Humanitarian Response.

Save the Children, in partnership with Vayu Global Health and the Ministry of Health (MOH), and with funding from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Charities (LDSC), will implement the Better Care for Small and Sick Newborns in Zambia project. The project aims to reduce facility-level neonatal mortality by improving access to high-quality respiratory care through the implementation of bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (bCPAP), strengthening referral and transfer systems for sick newborns, and enhancing the capacity of health workers across Lusaka, Central, and Southern Provinces. The project will be implemented in ten district-level public health facilities providing maternity services with functional 24-hour inpatient newborn care units. The intervention will strengthen the quality of care for small and sick newborns through evidence-based clinical practice, health systems strengthening, capacity building, mentorship, quality improvement, and sustainable integration of bCPAP services into routine newborn care.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The MEAL Officer role will provide MEAL technical oversight and operational support to data management, use and reporting for the Better Care for Small and Sick Newborns in Zambia project in Lusaka, Southern and Central Provinces. S/he will be responsible for implementation of an effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning system for the project, in collaboration with the programmes team and partners. The person will be responsible for overseeing data collection, cleaning/ verifying data, compiling reports for internal and external consumption, coordinating closely with the technical staff to ensure that high quality systems support adaptive management and data-driven programming. Additionally, the person will be responsible for packaging and presenting data in a meaningful way to comply with reporting requirements and expand stakeholder learning. The role will include capacity building programme/partner staff, strategic and annual planning, internal reporting and evidence generation.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: BCPAP Project Manager.

Dimensions: The role is expected to deliver strong, consistent, verified program findings which fit program needs and requirements. In addition, the person is expected to liaise with Ministry of Health staff at health facility, district and provincial level, work with country office SCI Programme Development & Quality team, Operations team, advocacy colleagues and technical counterparts in other organisations. The role will engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice as needed.

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

QUALIFIED APPLICANTS SHOULD ONLY ATTACH A COVER LETTER AND AN UPDATED CV.

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The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 14th August 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Save the Children reserves the right to re advertise if suitable applicants are not found.

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