Roving RMEAL Officer

The Roving RMEAL Officer supports field-level implementation of research, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning activities across 12 counties in South Sudan under the EFASS project. The role involves regular travel to partner implementation areas to verify results, monitor quality, support data collection, and strengthen accountability systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular field visits to the 12 EFASS counties to monitor partner implementation, verify reported activities, and assess the quality of programme delivery at school and community level.
• Carry out routine spot checks, site visits, record reviews, and observation of project activities implemented by EFASS partners across target counties.
• Verify outputs and supporting documentation against partner reports, attendance sheets, distribution lists, school records, and other field-level evidence.
• Provide practical follow-up and immediate feedback to partners and field teams on monitoring findings, gaps, and corrective actions.
• Support field-level collection of routine monitoring data using approved MEAL tools and digital platforms.
• Check data for completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and proper disaggregation before submission to central teams.
• Work closely with implementing partners to improve the quality of source documents, reporting templates, and routine data entry.
• Identify data quality issues during county visits and support timely correction, clarification, and follow-up with partners and field teams.
• Provide hands-on support to consortium partners and field staff on indicator understanding, monitoring tools, documentation requirements, and reporting standards.
• Coach partner staff during field visits on proper use of registers, activity records, attendance forms, verification sheets, and digital data collection tools.
• Support partners to strengthen routine monitoring practices and ensure compliance with EFASS reporting requirements.
• Act as a mobile RMEAL focal point across counties, providing practical troubleshooting and follow-up support where monitoring gaps are identified.
• Support implementation and monitoring of accountability and feedback mechanisms at field level, including community awareness on available feedback channels.
• Collect, document, and follow up on beneficiary feedback, complaints, and concerns raised during field visits in coordination with programme and safeguarding teams.
• Check whether communities, schools, and project participants understand the purpose of activities, eligibility criteria, and available complaints pathways.
• Support tracking of response actions and documentation of field-level accountability follow-up.
• Support field preparation and coordination for assessments, surveys, learning reviews, and special studies under EFASS.
• Assist with field logistics, supervision, and quality follow-up for external data collectors or enumerators working in EFASS counties.
• Document field observations, implementation challenges, emerging lessons, and examples of good practice to inform programme adaptation and learning.
• Contribute to learning reviews and internal reflection processes by bringing practical evidence and findings from field implementation sites.
• Prepare concise field visit reports, verification summaries, monitoring notes, and action trackers after county visits.
• Maintain organized records of verification findings, monitoring checklists, accountability follow-up, partner support actions, and other relevant documentation.
• Support compilation of county-level monitoring information for routine project reporting, learning updates, and management review.
• Flag major implementation, reporting, safeguarding, or accountability concerns to the RMEAL Lead in a timely manner.
• Coordinate closely with the RMEAL Lead, technical teams, implementing partners, and field teams to plan and carry out monitoring and verification visits across EFASS counties.
• Work closely with schools, communities, County Education Offices, and relevant local stakeholders to support monitoring, verification, and accountability processes.
• Participate in internal planning, review, and coordination meetings related to monitoring, field verification, reporting, and learning.
• Represent the RMEAL function in field-level engagements as assigned.
• Ensure that all field monitoring and data collection activities are conducted in line with IRC policies, donor requirements, and approved EFASS tools and procedures.
• Promote ethical data collection, confidentiality, informed consent, safeguarding, and appropriate data protection practices during field visits and partner engagement.
• Identify and communicate data quality, implementation, accountability, or safeguarding risks in a timely manner.
• Uphold IRC’s safeguarding, code of conduct, and professional standards in all aspects of the role.
• Ensure confidentiality of IRC information acquired in the course of duty.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Social Sciences, Education, Development Studies, Information Management, or a related field required.
• A postgraduate qualification in a relevant field is an added advantage.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of relevant professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, research, or field data collection roles.
• Strong experience in field monitoring, verification, reporting, and partner support in humanitarian or development programmes required.
• Experience working with implementing partners across multiple locations is strongly preferred.
• Experience in fragile, conflict-affected, or low-capacity settings required, preferably in South Sudan or similar contexts.
• Experience supporting donor-funded programmes and multi-county implementation is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of field monitoring, indicator tracking, data quality assurance, verification processes, and documentation standards.
• Experience using digital data collection tools such as Kobo, CommCare, ODK, or similar platforms.
• Good skills in Excel and familiarity with routine data management and reporting tools.
• Strong ability to review field evidence, identify reporting gaps, and support corrective action with partners.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and interpersonal skills, with ability to work effectively with partners and local stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and willingness to travel extensively to remote implementation areas.
• Knowledge of accountability mechanisms, safeguarding-sensitive monitoring, and community feedback systems is an advantage.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
• All staff must comply with all IRC South Sudan security policies and procedures.
• The position is strictly for South Sudanese Nationals with all the National documents.

Skills

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Field Monitoring
• Data Quality Assurance
• Indicator Tracking
• Verification Processes
• Reporting
• Partner Support
• Field Data Collection
• Digital Data Collection
• Kobo
• CommCare
• ODK
• Excel
• Data Management
• Accountability Mechanisms
• Community Feedback Mechanisms
• Facilitation Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Research
• learning
• Safeguarding Monitoring

Languages

English