MEAL Assistant

About the role

The Youth Agenda is seeking a MEAL Assistant to support monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities across its programmes in Kenya. The role involves data management, field monitoring support and reporting to ensure programme quality and impact.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, review and use programme monitoring and data collection tools.
• Collect, enter, clean and manage programme data, maintaining up‑to‑date databases and MEAL records.
• Support field monitoring visits, surveys, assessments and other data collection activities.
• Conduct routine data quality checks to identify inconsistencies, gaps and errors.
• Assist in analysing data and preparing tables, summaries and visualisations for internal and donor reports.
• Track feedback, complaints and responses in line with YAA procedures.

Required profile

• A Diploma or degree in Monitoring and Evaluation or a related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in monitoring, research, data collection or programme support.
• Willingness and ability to undertake field travel within Kenya.
• Commitment to confidentiality and ethical data management.

Required skills

• Familiarity with KoboToolbox or other digital data collection platforms.
• Proficiency in Google Forms, Google Sheets.
• Experience with data analysis and visualisation tools such as Power BI, SPSS, R, Stata.