Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer (H / F)

The MEAL Officer plays a central operational role within the Programme Management Unit. He / she is responsible for ensuring the continuity, quality and reliability of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) processes across the programme.

The Officer ensures that indicators are regularly tracked, data is consolidated across all partners, and evidence is generated to support informed decision-making, adaptive management and donor reporting (including EU OPSYS requirements). The position is responsible for the overall design, deployment, and continuous improvement of the programme’s MEAL system; the harmonisation of MEAL practices and indicators across the consortium; the coordination of evidence-based reporting; the functioning of accountability mechanisms; the strengthening of MEAL capacities; and the provision of high-quality analytical inputs to programme governance, learning, and risk monitoring.

The position works in close coordination with technical experts involved in waste monitoring systems, digital tools and institutional strengthening, consortium partners (FIAP, Camões, IFC), and national and municipal authorities. During the inception phase, the project may benefit from dedicated MEAL support to revise the project’s Theory of Change, define indicators, and develop the MEAL framework and implementation plan. The MEAL Officer will contribute to these tasks and ensure continuity through the effective uptake of methodologies and tools developed during inception. Throughout the project’s duration, the MEAL Officer will be responsible for deploying, maintaining, and continuously improving the MEAL system, while also supporting—together with technical experts—the development and strengthening of national and municipal monitoring tools.

These responsibilities are detailed below :

Operationalisation and management of the MEAL system

• Implement and maintain the MEAL framework and monitoring plan developed during the inception phase with support from the MEAL Specialist;
• Support the organisation of baseline studies and needs assessments to establish reference values for indicators (at output, outcome and activity levels);
• Contribute to the design and implementation of follow-up, outcome, and endline surveys to measure changes at different levels;
• Ensure that inception-phase evidence (e.g., prioritisation process, waste typology and mapping, municipal governance diagnostics) is structured, documented and transformed into actionable MEAL data;
• Ensure that the MEAL system is compliant with EU monitoring and reporting requirements;
• Use and adapt data collection tools for regular monitoring of activities and results;
• Consolidate and track indicators from EF and consortium partners, ensuring data consistency and completeness;
• Provide basic methodological support to staff and partners involved in data collection and reporting;
• Conduct data quality checks to ensure consistency and reliability;
• Produce dashboards (Power BI, basic GIS visualisations where relevant) and progress reports to summarise progress in a timely and user-friendly manner for project management and donor reporting purposes;
• Identify challenges and propose practical improvements to data collection and management systems.

Contribution to national and municipal monitoring systems

Accountability and reporting

Knowledge sharing and learning

Capacity building and partner support

Risk monitoring and early warning

This job description is not exhaustive.

Note : The TOR is also provided in Portuguese in the attached PDF.

About the project

The solid waste management sector in Angola faces significant challenges, including insufficient waste collection services, lack of infrastructures, and limited enforcement of regulations. These challenges contribute to environmental degradation, public health risks, and inefficiencies in public services.

Funded by the European Union, the overall objective of this programme is to improve solid waste management in Luanda and scale up circular economy initiatives. The project is composed of four Specific Objectives and implemented by a consortium of partners, including Expertise France, Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I.P., the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIAP). Expertise France serves as the lead agency and holds overall responsibility for programme coordination.

Expertise France contributes primarily to Specific Objectives 1 and 2, with a focus on :

Other consortium responsibilities include :

EF project team is based in Luanda and is composed of :

About Expertise France

Expertise France is the public agency for the design and implementation of international technical cooperation projects, and a member of the AFD Group. The agency focuses on four priority areas :

In these fields, Expertise France provides engineering and project implementation services for capacity-building initiatives, mobilizes technical expertise, and acts as a project integrator by bringing together public expertise and private-sector know-how.

With a turnover of €450 million in 2024 and over 350 ongoing projects across 140 countries, Expertise France is France’s leading public agency for international technical cooperation.

Expertise France has been active in Angola since 2017, implementing vocational education modernization projects and establishing trusted cooperation with Angolan partners and active donors in the country. This cooperation has notably resulted in strengthened dialogue with European partners, leading to the development of four projects covering blue economy, circular economy, public finance management, and justice. By the end of 2025, Expertise France’s project portfolio in Angola is expected to grow by 150%, with business volume increasing from €17.75 million to €44 million.

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