MEAL Director

Project HOPE

Provide strategic direction and governance oversight for MEAL systems across the Gaza country portfolio, ensuring alignment with Project HOPE s humanitarian values, donor requirements, and organizational standards.

Ensure harmonization of MEAL systems across multiple donor-funded projects (PRM, USAID/BHA, UN, EU, and others as applicable).

Lead development of a country-level MEAL strategy applicable to current and future awards.

Collaborate closely with program, operations, and finance departments to ensure MEAL integration across the full project lifecycle (design, implementation, reporting, and closeout).

Contribute to organizational strategy, policy development, and adaptive management by providing evidence based analysis and recommendations.

Represent Project HOPE in MEAL coordination forums, humanitarian clusters, and inter agency learning initiatives.

Provide technical leadership in proposal development, emergency applications, and donor modifications, ensuring strong theories of change, logical frameworks, and performance monitoring structures.

Ensure adherence to Project HOPE global MEAL policies, technical standards, and internal guidance, and oversee contextual adaptation at country level.

Lead the development and execution of MEAL strategies and plans across all projects, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and Project HOPE standards.

Approve and provide oversight on data collection methodologies, analysis, and reporting processes, including indicator tracking tables (ITT), dashboards, and real time data systems.

Ensure rigorous data quality assurance and provide technical oversight on Data Quality Assessments (DQAs), aggregation from field teams and partners, and corrective action plans.

Provide oversight for program assessments (baseline, midline, endline), ensuring findings inform adaptive management and strategic decision-making.

Approve SMART indicators, targets, and tools for routine monitoring and project performance review.

Ensure harmonization of indicators and monitoring systems across multiple donor-funded projects to reduce duplication and increase efficiency.

Ensure consistent use and contextual adaptation of Project HOPE internal MEAL tools, templates, indicator reference sheets, and reporting systems across all projects.

Ensure beneficiary tracking systems include appropriate disaggregation, deduplication, and documentation controls.

Promote and facilitate operational research, evaluations, and evidence generation initiatives in coordination with the Technical Unit and global teams.

Provide strategic oversight to community feedback and response mechanisms (CFRM), ensuring they inform program adjustments and strengthen accountability to affected populations.

Coordinate lessons learned sessions, After Action Reviews (AARs), and other learning activities to enhance program effectiveness.

Oversee documentation of best practices, case studies, and success stories to showcase impact and promote internal and external learning.

Ensure accountability frameworks are adapted to Gaza s complex humanitarian context, integrating protection, including cultural norms, conflict dynamics, and community trust.

Monitor complaint trends and safeguarding risks, escalating critical issues to senior leadership as appropriate.

Identify opportunities for studies, external evaluations, learning briefs, and peer-reviewed publications that strengthen Project HOPE s evidence base and visibility.

Provide strategic oversight of performance reporting across the Gaza country portfolio, ensuring timely, high-quality submissions in line with PRM and other donor-specific requirements, and providing final review and sign-off on all external reports.

Oversee the development and standardization of harmonized MEAL tools and templates across projects, including approved mobile data collection and management platforms.

Provide oversight to MEAL database systems to ensure effective beneficiary tracking, deduplication protocols, and accurate output reporting in compliance with donor requirements.

Ensure adherence to Project HOPE global MEAL policies and organizational reporting requirements, including use of DHIS2 and other designated internal systems, while maintaining functional alignment with the Technical Unit and harmonization between internal and donor reporting.

Build capacity of Project HOPE and partner staff through mentoring, coaching, and training on MEAL concepts, tools, and data literacy.

Strengthen local partner accountability systems through training and joint monitoring exercises.

Promote a culture of evidence based decision making and continuous improvement across the country portfolio.

Directly supervise and mentor the MEAL Manager, ensuring operational excellence and effective delegation across the MEAL team.

Ensure MEAL systems are adapted to the Gaza context, including remote monitoring and contingency data collection during access restrictions.

Ensure integration of protection, gender, and inclusion considerations across monitoring and accountability frameworks.

Lead development of contingency plans for data collection and reporting during escalations or operational disruptions.

Strengthen community trust by ensuring transparent communication of program goals, results, and feedback mechanisms.