About Teach for Lebanon
Teach For Lebanon (TFL) is an NGO working to ensure that all children in Lebanon, regardless of socioeconomic background, have access to quality education. The model of Teach for Lebanon is an education innovation that focuses on youth capacity building to provide quality intervention and systemic support for students. TFL employs and trains Lebanon’s most promising graduates, “TFL Fellows”, and places them in schools serving underprivileged refugee and Lebanese children. These Fellows receive on-going training and support to address educational disadvantages by providing transformational teaching that places their students on a path of academic success. Along the way, they become leaders and advocates for a better Lebanon.
Learn More: www.teachforlebanon.org
Role Summary
The MEAL Manager leads the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) function at Teach for Lebanon. The role is responsible for the strategic oversight of MEAL systems, ensuring donor compliance, accountability, and the effective use of evidence to inform programmatic and organizational decision-making.
The MEAL Manager holds full accountability for the generation, quality, and submission of donor and internal reports, while managing and developing the MEAL team and embedding a culture of learning and evidence-based practice across the organization.
Main Accountabilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
MEAL Strategy & Leadership:
Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of organization-wide MEAL frameworks aligned with TFL’s strategy and donor requirements.
Ensure MEAL systems support effective program planning, implementation, reporting, and learning.
Advise leadership on performance, evidence, and learning priorities.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting:
Oversee the development and implementation of project-level and organizational M&E frameworks, indicators, and monitoring tools.
Lead the drafting, consolidation, and finalization of all donor and internal narrative reports, ensuring analytical rigor, coherence, and alignment with donor requirements.
Interpret MEAL data to generate findings, results narratives, lessons learned, and recommendations.
Ensure timely submission of reports and act as the primary donor-facing focal point for reporting discussions and follow-up.
Lead and/or oversee baseline, midline, end line evaluations, assessments, and third-party evaluations.
Learning & Use of Evidence:
Institutionalize learning practices, including after-action reviews, reflection sessions, and adaptive planning.
Translate MEAL findings into actionable insights to inform program improvement and strategic decisions.
Oversee the development of learning briefs and internal knowledge products.
Accountability & Quality Assurance:
Ensure MEAL systems support accountability requirements, including the analysis of feedback and complaints data, in coordination with safeguarding and compliance functions.
Uphold ethical standards for data collection, analysis, storage, and reporting.
Ensure consistent application of data quality assurance mechanisms across programs.
Grants & Donor Engagement:
Provide technical leadership on MEAL components of grant proposals, including theories of change, indicators, log frames, and evaluation plans.
Respond to donor MEAL queries, monitoring visits, and data verification requests.
Support budget planning to ensure adequate resourcing for MEAL activities.
People Management & Capacity Building:
Line-manage, mentor, and develop MEAL team members.
Build MEAL capacity across program and operations teams through guidance, tools, and training.
Foster strong collaboration between MEAL and other departments.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Qualifications | Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Information Management, Statistics, or other relevant fields. Master’s degree preferred.
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Technical Skills | Proficiency in English and Arabic. Strong command of Microsoft Office applications. Demonstrate understanding of direct monitoring and evaluation experience, preferably in the humanitarian and development context. Proven experience in developing tools and systems for, and building capacity of others in skills related to, program tracking and documentation. Demonstrated experience in implementing beneficiary complaint and feedback mechanisms. High proficiency in Excel, Kobo, SPSS, Power BI, or any other data analysis software.
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Additional Knowledge | Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methodologies, including logical models, conceptual frameworks, and assessment/evaluation - Experience with mobile data collection techniques is preferred.
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Working Conditions
Location: The chosen candidate will be based in Achrafieh Office.
Package: Competitive salary based on experience with NSSF and Medical-Life Insurance benefits.
Other: Willingness to work some weekends and evenings.