MERL Specialist III

About this role

Compassion International is recruiting a MERL Specialist III to strengthen decentralized monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning for FCI implementation in Tanzania. The post ensures data from communities, spokes, and hubs are complete, timely, accurate, and useful for decisions, links implementation progress with performance monitoring, and supports alignment with HMIS/DHIS2 and FCI reporting requirements. It is based in Arusha on a hybrid basis, is full-time and fixed-term, and is supported by grant funding approved for one year. The specialist will implement FCI data-flow processes from community and spoke level through hubs into reporting systems.

They will compile, clean, and validate routine program data, maintain regional and district records, and support timely report submission. The role includes data-quality checks, assessments, verification, and corrective-action follow-up with facilities and community teams. It also involves triangulating reported activities with implementation records, identifying discrepancies, and resolving them before reporting. The specialist will analyze performance data and prepare dashboards and summaries for monthly and quarterly reviews, communicating trends, gaps, and outliers to technical and management teams.

They will support digital data collection, HMIS/DHIS2 alignment, user support, and dashboards for referrals. Additional duties include training staff on data tools, supporting community feedback and accountability mechanisms, contributing to learning products, and providing evidence for implementation decisions. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in monitoring and evaluation, statistics, health informatics, information management, public health, or a related field, plus at least three years of relevant experience. Hands-on MEAL or data management, HMIS/DHIS2, data quality, reporting, and field-level analysis are required, along with experience with field teams and government health structures.

Strong indicator tracking, analytical, spreadsheet or database, training, coaching, confidentiality, and ethical data-handling skills are expected. The role requires approximately 30 to 40 percent travel within assigned regions and districts. Compassion International expects the post-holder to uphold its cultural behaviors and child protection commitments. Applications close on 2026-10-30.