MEAL and Innovation Manager

MEAL and Innovation Manager at Lindii Peace Foundation (LPF)

Lindii Peace Foundation (LPF) is a Non-Profit and Non-governmental Organization in Nigeria which was registered as a corporate body with the Corporate Affairs Commission on the Eleventh (11th) day of July, 2014.

MEAL and Innovation Manager

• Job Type Full Time
• Qualification MBA/MSc/MA
• Experience 5 - 8 years
• Location Borno
• Job Field NGO/Non-Profit

Contract Duration: 11 months

ABOUT THE ROLE

Lindii Peace Foundation (LPF) is seeking an experienced, strategic, and results-oriented MEAL and Innovation Manager to lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the organization’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) systems and innovation agenda across its humanitarian and development programmes.

The MEAL and Innovation Manager will provide technical leadership in results measurement, programme monitoring, data management, accountability to affected populations, evaluation, organizational learning, and evidence-based decision-making. The role will ensure that programme performance is systematically measured, reported, and used to strengthen programme quality, demonstrate results, meet donor requirements, and inform strategic decisions.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior management, programme managers, project teams, field personnel, and relevant external stakeholders to ensure that MEAL systems are integrated throughout the programme cycle, from project design and planning to implementation, evaluation, reporting, and close-out. The Manager will also identify and promote innovative approaches, strengthen organizational learning, and support adaptive programming to improve effectiveness, efficiency, accountability, and impact.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• MEAL Strategy, Systems Development and Oversight

• Lead the development, implementation, and periodic review of LPF’s organizational MEAL strategy, frameworks, procedures, and tools.

• Establish and maintain standardized MEAL systems that support consistent monitoring, reporting, evaluation, accountability, and learning across projects and operational locations.

• Provide technical guidance to programme teams in developing project-specific MEAL plans, results frameworks, logical frameworks, theories of change, indicator tracking tables, and performance measurement plans.

• Ensure that project indicators, baselines, targets, means of verification, and data collection methods are clearly defined, measurable, and aligned with approved project documents and donor requirements.

• Integrate MEAL considerations into programme design, proposal development, budgeting, implementation planning, review, and close-out processes.

• Develop and maintain MEAL standard operating procedures, data management protocols, reporting templates, and quality assurance mechanisms.

• Ensure that monitoring and evaluation systems are practical, proportionate to project requirements, and responsive to the operating context.

• Review the effectiveness of existing MEAL systems and recommend improvements to strengthen programme quality, organizational accountability, and results measurement.

• Programme Monitoring and Performance Management

• Lead the development and implementation of monitoring plans to track programme activities, outputs, outcomes, targets, and overall performance.

• Establish mechanisms for routine monitoring of project implementation against approved workplans, indicators, budgets, deliverables, and reporting schedules.

• Coordinate periodic field monitoring visits, programme verification exercises, service-quality assessments, and post-distribution monitoring activities.

• Ensure that monitoring findings are documented, analysed, and communicated to relevant managers and programme teams in a timely manner.

• Identify implementation gaps, performance risks, emerging challenges, and deviations from approved targets, and recommend appropriate corrective actions.

• Maintain a systematic follow-up mechanism to ensure that recommendations from monitoring visits, assessments, evaluations, and programme reviews are implemented.

• Work with programme managers to promote the use of monitoring findings in operational planning, resource allocation, and programme adaptation.

• Provide management with regular performance updates, highlighting achievements, underperformance, risks, and areas requiring strategic attention.

• Data Management, Analysis and Quality Assurance

• Lead the development and maintenance of reliable systems for collecting, storing, analysing, verifying, and reporting programme data.

• Establish and oversee data quality assurance procedures to ensure that reported information is accurate, complete, consistent, timely, and verifiable.

• Conduct or coordinate routine data quality assessments, data audits, spot checks, and verification exercises across projects and field locations.

• Oversee the development and use of databases, indicator tracking systems, dashboards, and digital data collection platforms to improve the availability and use of programme information.

• Promote the appropriate use of digital tools such as KoboToolbox, ODK, Power BI, and other relevant data management and visualization platforms.

• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, measure progress, assess programme effectiveness, and generate actionable insights.

• Ensure that programme data is disaggregated appropriately, including by sex, age, disability, location, and other relevant characteristics, where applicable and safe.

• Establish and enforce appropriate protocols for data protection, co