Regional MEAL Manager - East Africa Regional Division

Place: In one of the 6 countries of the region: Ethiopia, Somalia/Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda or South Sudan - with preference to Ethiopia, Uganda or Kenya
Starting date: 1st April 2026
Duration of contract: 24 months
Closing date for applications: 17th February 2026

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial aid organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organisation works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development & humanitarian projects in more than 55 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 200 million euros, with 4,000 employees worldwide.

At Handicap International-Humanity & Inclusion, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organisation. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities.

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JOB CONTEXT:
This is a newly created position.

East Africa region faces multiple challenges: armed conflicts and insecurity, population displacement (refugees and internally displaced persons), epidemics and public health issues, food insecurity and famine, and various protection incidents. These factors exacerbate the vulnerabilities of people with disabilities and marginalized groups.

East Africa is home to approximately 3.8 million refugees, representing 10% of the world's refugees but faces growing challenges in terms of resources and integration.

Ongoing crises in Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia are exacerbating displacement.

In this context, Humanity & Inclusion (HI) implements humanitarian and development actions aimed at improving access to essential services, strengthening community resilience, and promoting inclusion. HI's interventions focus on several areas: physical and functional rehabilitation, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), inclusive education (and EI in emergencies), protection, food security and humanitarian mine action (including clearance, victim assistance and risk education). HI's approach is based on community participation, promoting a \u201cdo no harm\u201d policy, and seeking to achieve a lasting impact that promotes human dignity and inclusion in humanitarian action.

HI has around 350-400 employees in this region, with a budget of \u20ac20 million.

As part of its commitment to continuous improvement, HI has embarked on a process of regionalization and decentralization of its operational governance, with the aim of bringing decision-making closer to local realities. This change is accompanied by greater pooling of resources, harmonization of practices, and increased efforts to ensure programmatic consistency across its various areas of intervention. By early 2026, the program teams will work closely and in an integrated manner within a strengthened regional space to maximize the impact, responsiveness, and relevance of actions carried out as close as possible to the populations concerned.

YOUR MISSION:
Under the hierarchical supervision of the Technical Head of Program (THOP), the Regional MEAL Manager is responsible for the MEAL and information management (IM) teams working in the East Africa Division and is the direct line-manager of the MEAL Senior Officer/Managers in the different countries.

The Regional MEAL manager is in charge of deploying HI's MEAL and IM standards on his or her programs and ensuring their application. 

The overall coherency of the projects and their quality control is ensured by the MEAL department and the Regional Technical Head of Program

Your main missions will be:

Mission 1: Management

\u00b7       Lives HI\u2019s values in everyday work and acts as a role model. Promotes inclusion, accountability and safeguarding, and consistently demonstrates ethical behaviour.

\u00b7       Understands HI\u2019s strategy, explains it clearly to the team, translates it into concrete MEAL objectives, and leads the changes needed to achieve them.

\u00b7       Organises and oversees the team\u2019s work, structures tasks and processes, monitors performance, and supports problem-solving. Sets annual individual objectives and conducts appraisals.

\u00b7       Supports staff development by creating conditions for engagement, professional growth and commitment to HI. Ensures that project teams receive appropriate technical and methodological guidance and support from MEAL team members and specialists based at headquarters or at region level.

\u00b7       Ensures compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, and promotes expected behaviours. Coaches and mentors team members.

Mission 2: Strategy and steering

Defines the MEAL part of the Operational Strategy, pilots the related action plan and the strategy monitoring tool:

\u00b7       Helps with the development of the operational strategy (StratOp) in line with HI strategy, StraTechs and Development plans (notably 3I and Emergency), including the development of the StratOp monitoring tool; 

\u00b7       Defines and oversees the regional and country declined MEAL action plan. Adjust based on results.

\u00b7       Drives the performance of his or her service. 

\u00b7       Leads the assessment of local partners' MEAL/IM capacities and the resulting capacity building plans 

Mission 3: Standards and expertise

Designs the program's MEAL and IM systems and monitors their implementation and quality:

\u00b7       Is responsible for defining systems for monitoring, data collection, information management, evaluation, accountability to populations, learning and knowledge management that are adapted to the context of intervention and ensure compliance with HI standards;

\u00b7       Ensures that the systems put in place on the various projects are consistent with each other and with HI's frameworks and standards and enable the consolidation of information for use in the region\u2019s global management.

Mission 4: Operational implementation

Contributes towards improving HI's response within East Africa Division:

\u00b7       Is responsible for the implementation of tools for measuring outcomes and impact that facilitate decision-making, learning and accountability;  

\u00b7       Is responsible for putting in place a system for ensuring accountability towards populations; 

\u00b7       Contributes towards the articulation and application of HI's institutional policies and crosscutting approaches; 

Contributes towards defining and improving the quality of projects in line with HI's global frameworks and technical standards: 

\u00b7       Provides technical support to the technical specialists and operational teams in establishing quality indicators, monitoring methods and data collection tools;  

\u00b7       Contributes to the design and drafting of project proposals; 

\u00b7       Is responsible for ensuring that regular project evaluations take place.

\u00b7       Ensures quality control of projects based on the Project Quality Policy, raises alerts and recommendations.

Contributes towards improving the quality of project management, as defined in HI's Project Quality policy (PQP): 

\u00b7       Provides technical support to the project and partners teams for the implementation of monitoring, evaluation and accountability tools and methods;  

\u00b7       Provides technical support to operations managers, country managers and project managers for the application of PME policy and verifies its application.  

Contributes towards the ownership of learning frameworks and methodologies by the programmes and by HI in general: 

\u00b7       Is responsible, for implementing processes and methods for collecting, analysing, modelling and ownership of the knowledge produced;  

\u00b7       Proposes an analysis of the information collected and the knowledge produced to strengthen collective learning;  

\u00b7       Ensures the continuous improvement of learning frameworks and methodologies; 

\u00b7       Ensures access to relevant internal and external information for all staff. 

Ensures the external representation and promotion of HI's expertise in the MEAL sector :

\u00b7       Represents HI's MEAL and IM expertise in all relevant regional networks; 

\u00b7       Contributes towards advocacy on specific subjects (notably through the consolidation of evidence-based factors) in line with the StratOp and federal advocacy priorities; 

\u00b7       Contributes locally to communication messages in line with the StratOp and federal communication priorities. 

Mission 5: Emergency preparedness and response

\u00b7       Leads the emergency preparedness actions in the MEAL department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure a rapid and effective response from HI.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POSITION:
The security situation in the region varies from country to country, with some areas affected by tensions or travel restrictions, particularly in Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. Appropriate risk management mechanisms are in place to ensure the safety of teams.

Requirements

Benefits

At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team