Planning & MEAL Officer

About the role

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) is recruiting a Planning & MEAL Officer for its headquarters office in Damascus (Abou Remmaneh). The officer coordinates planning, monitoring and evaluation activities for assigned agreements, governorates and technical sectors, working closely with technical departments and the Information Management (IM) Unit while not taking away technical ownership. The role acts as the focal point for performance tracking and evidence generation.

Key responsibilities

• Operational planning: contribute to SARC's annual operational plan, coordinate sector plans into one plan, align them with data systems and indicators, and support the planning cycle with data analysis and lessons learned.
• Agreement workplans: develop workplans for assigned donor agreements with activities, timelines, responsibilities, KPIs and milestones, update them and share them with IM.
• Logframe and indicators: support Logframe development, draft and maintain indicators, baselines, targets and means of verification, and coordinate their validation.
• Monitoring and field follow-up: conduct routine monitoring visits, verify reported data, identify gaps, delays or risks and report them.
• Data quality assurance: ensure consistency between activity reports, MEAL tools and donor reporting, and coordinate with IM on data gaps.
• Reporting and performance tracking: prepare monitoring reports, provide validated performance data for donors, contribute to quarterly and annual reports, and track KPIs.
• Evaluation support: assist in baseline, midline and endline evaluations, data collection and follow-up on recommendations.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in development studies, statistics, social sciences, public health, economics or a related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in M&E or MEAL roles.
• Preferred: experience supervising field teams, experience in humanitarian or development organizations, and strong background in indicator tracking and data quality verification.
• Excellent Arabic and good English.

Required skills

• Strong leadership and team supervision skills.
• High analytical and reporting ability.
• Familiarity with M&E tools and donor requirements.
• Solid understanding of indicators, Logframes and MEAL systems.
• Excellent communication and coordination abilities.
• Preferred: strong computer literacy (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and experience with KoBo, ODK or SurveyCTO.

Candidates apply by sending an updated CV in English as a PDF only, with the position applied for in the subject line, to the SARC careers contact.