Employment Term:                       Fixed Term (6 Months with Possible Extension)           

Level:                                                 National D1

Location:                                       Sittwe, Rakhine, Myanmar

Closing Date:                                12 October 2025

The Role:

Oxfam is looking for Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, accountability and Learning (MEAL) Officer.

Job Purpose:

To lead and support the implementation of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) activities in Rakhine, ensuring high-quality data management, accountability systems, and evidence-based reporting. The Senior MEAL Officer will line-manage MEAL staff and ensure compliance with internal and external quality standards, while strengthening community feedback and learning mechanisms across OXSI WASH Project.

Key Responsibilities:

Developing & Implementing MEAL system

• Support the OXSI MEAL Coordinator in developing, improving, and implementing MEAL frameworks, tools, and systems for humanitarian projects in Sittwe.
• Lead establishment and follow-up of monitoring systems, indicator tracking tools, and data collection processes.
• Design, test, and update online data collection tools (Survey CTO/KOBO and other ICT platforms).
• Train and support programme staff, MEAL Officer and data management assistants to make sure the quality control for data processing process such as data entry, synthesis, verification, cleaning, and analysis of key programme indicators.
• Conduct monitoring visits, assessments, and surveys in line with project needs and as advised by the line manager.
• Support programme teams in integrating learning reviews, documentation of lessons learned, and evidence-based advocacy.
• Maintain and develop proper documentation and information management while maintaining standards of Oxfam Data Protection Principles.
• Maintain existing indicator tracking tools; develop additional databases and tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project interventions and provide timely feedback to program teams to ensure the program is being implemented against project targets.
• Contribute to producing MEAL reports, success stories, and learning briefs in coordination with programme and communications teams.
• Support Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) data collection training to MEAL assistants and partners, Monitoring and Evaluation field data collection process, and prepare data analysis.
• Manage baseline, midline, and endline studies, post-distribution monitoring, satisfaction surveys, and other assessments.
• Assist line manager in developing M&E questionnaires, online data collection platform, guideline/SOP.
• Support CFRM implementation, ensuring timely entry, follow-up, and closure of cases in Survey CTO.
• Ensure that Oxfam has effective accountability systems and provides training on the system to ensure that it functions. Ensure that communities are aware that the Accountability System exists and functions.
• Promote transparency, information-sharing, and downward accountability with affected communities.
• Ensure that CFRM is accessible, safe, confidential, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of women, men, children, and persons with disabilities.
• Ensure accountability processes are linked with gender, safeguarding, and protection standards (including PSEA and GBV referral pathways).
• Coordinate with SI MEAL and Accountability staff to harmonize accountability mechanisms across the consortium.
• Facilitate FGDs, community consultations, and feedback sessions to ensure community voices inform programming.
• Participate in monthly Accountability cases review meeting with case managers to improve case closure timely with the Line Manager.

Data Management & Analysis

• Support the Data Management Assistant, as advised by the OXSI MEAL Coordinator, in ensuring accurate entry, cleaning, and storage of programme data.
• Support the maintenance and improvement of programme databases, indicator tracking tools, and dashboards (e.g., Power BI).
• Develop new data collection and analysis systems as required to strengthen evidence-based decision-making.
• Ensure proper data protection and adherence to Oxfam’s data management principles.

People Management & Capacity Building

• Line-manage the MEAL Officer and Accountability Community Facilitators, providing coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Identify training needs for MEAL and programme staff and deliver/coordinate MEAL, data management and Accountability trainings.
• Strengthen staff capacity on MEAL concepts, accountability principles, and use of ICT tools for data collection and analysis.
• Provide informal training to relevant groups (case managers, data collectors-ACFs, camp-based staff)

What we are looking for:

Essential

• Commitment to Oxfam’s values, including gender justice, diversity, equity, and accountability.
• Good understanding of Humanitarian response for conflict affected people, preferably in the context of complex emergency.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in humanitarian or development sector, with strong MEL, data management and CFRM experience.
• Proven skills in designing and implementing monitoring systems, tools, and methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of ICT for MEAL: Survey CTO, mobile data collection, advanced Excel, databases, dashboards, and Power Bi.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to produce high-quality reports.
• Fluency in spoken and written Burmese and English.
• Experience in monitoring the effectiveness of community feedback mechanisms.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural team and travel frequently within Rakhine.

Desirable

• Experience working in Sittwe IDP camps.
• Experience working in consortium settings with multiple partners.
• Experience in WASH programming.
• Good ability carrying out capacity-building training to camp-based staff.
• Knowledge of CHS Accountability Standards, Humanitarian Principles and Do No Harm Principles.
• Experience delivering training and capacity-building to field staff.
• Ability to be based in Sittwe or camps.

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam: 

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you.

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.