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Workforce MEAL Assistant for the youth employment program

Save the Children Thailand

Background

Save the Children Thailand is implementing the Youth Employability Project in Bangkok to empower local youth through vocational training, life skills development, and improved access to decent employment opportunities. The project aims to address systemic barriers to youth employment in Thailand by working closely with local partners, vocational institutions, and the private sector.

The Workforce MEAL Assistant will provide essential support to the MEAL Technical Expert and Research, Evaluation, and Learning Coordinator in the coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the overall REALM activities for Bangkok Programme, with the particular focus on youth employability programme. The role includes coordinating with the Program team, supporting data collection for monitoring and key assessment, documentation and maintaining of database, ensure accountability system, contributing to program learning. The Workforce MEAL Assistant will also work closely with Project Officer to support monitoring, learning, and continuous improvement of the program.  

Roles and Responsibilities

Monitoring (50%) 

• ·       Progress monitoring and managing information systems 
• ·       Maintain and update M&E plan and tools to ensure the program quality. 
• ·       Develop data collection formats and make use of the existing database system (e.g. COMMCARE and KOBO) in collaboration with the program/Ops team. Ensure tools are effective and designed properly. 
• ·       Supporting the Ops teams in designing the data collection process and carry out monitoring visit together with Ops team when relevant.  
• ·       Support data analysis during the monitoring process. 
• ·       Project-on-track, Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT), and PRIME
• ·       Utilize of Logframe Module in PRIME (Online project management platform) to monitor project indicator progress. Ensure that the information in the IPTTs and on PRIME are correctly.
• ·       Work with Program Implementation to validate/ triangulate the numbers reported in IPTT (e.g., verify number and source of data).
• ·       Quality Benchmarks
• ·       Ensure with Ops team that Quality Benchmarks (QB) are used in key activity as part of monitoring visit (share responsibility), analysis and share result. 
• ·       Ensure that the key action points are fed into PRIME action tracker and are being tracked by Ops team. 

Evaluation and Research (20%) 

• ·       External Assessment/Evaluation/Research
• ·       Support MEAL TE/REL Coordinator in reviewing and providing feedbacks for data collection tools. 
• ·       Support consultant on data collection process in the filed which might include co-design the data collection plan.
• ·       Internal assessment led by internal MEAL team: 
• ·       Assist REL Coordinator in developing data collection tools, study questions, target groups, field work plan. 
• ·       Undertake data collection, internally, as able, or support outsourcing of enumerators.
• ·       Assist REL Coordinator in analyzing the collected data.  
• ·       Provide inputs for the report compilation and write-up.

Accountability (10%) 

• ·       Accountability Systems: 
• ·       Maintain and update the Complaints and Feedback Mechanisms (CFM)’s SOPs including the guidance for establishing CFM, tools, process flow chart, etc. Promote the use (training) across the PIs and TEs.   
• ·       Support program coordinators to develop project standards and accountability approaches and material.  
• ·       Complaints/concerns/feedback handling from beneficiaries though complaint and response mechanism on daily basis following SOPs.

Learning (10%) 

• ·       Track actions agreed in monitoring reports, using Action Plan Trackers when appropriate; and work with the implementing teams to update the trackers monthly. 
• ·       Co-Facilitate lessons learned workshop for youth employability program.
• ·       Coordinate with partner and identify MEAL capacity need.

Cross Cutting/Overall Quality Control (10%)

• ·       Support Ops team in review of donor report.
• ·       Support MEAL TE in proposal development process
• ·       Support the Partnership Assessment in area of MEAL
• ·       Represent MEAL Unit in award kick off 
•         Support the information consolidation for Country Annual Report and Country Program Quality Quarterly KPIs Report.

Timeframe: December 2025 to January 2026 (maximum 10 working days per month)

Location: Bangkok

Qualifications

·       Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Education, Measurement and Evaluation, Research, or a field(s) relevant to development work.

·       Thai Nationality

·       Demonstrated ability to use MS-Office (in particular Excel).

·       Ability to use quantitative and qualitative data analysis software would be an asset

·       Knowledge and experience other Technology for Development or IT would be an asset

·       Proficiency in Thai and English, both verbal and written.

·       Demonstrated report writing skills.

·       Good oral and written communication skills

·       Quickly adapt to new topics, grasp concepts on the go, and synthesize information efficiently.

·       Ability and willingness to travel domestically as assigned