Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

About this role

Compassionate Carbon Tanzania is recruiting a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator to connect field implementation with reliable information for progress tracking, learning, and programme improvement across the Rubeho Mountains Carbon Project. The post reports to the MEL and Data Quality Manager. The coordinator will develop and maintain practical monitoring tools, forms, guidelines, and standard operating procedures across programme workstreams. They will coordinate monthly and quarterly data collection with programme managers, field teams, and community-based data collectors, ensuring records are organised, secure, traceable, and audit ready.

Quality assurance will include completeness and validation checks, spot checks, and field verification against Equitable Earth standards. The role also involves cleaning, summarising, and analysing monitoring data, preparing monitoring summaries, and contributing verified information to reporting, learning reviews, and carbon-standard verification. The coordinator will train and coach field staff, enumerators, and community data collectors, and coordinate with MRV staff, communities, and government stakeholders to integrate monitoring into field activities. Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in agriculture, forestry, natural resource management, environmental science, or a related field, with at least three years of relevant monitoring and evaluation, field data collection, or data management experience.

Demonstrated experience coordinating enumerators or community data collectors, training field teams, using digital tools such as KoBoToolbox, ODK, or Survey123, and conducting data cleaning and quality assurance is required. Preferred experience includes natural resource, conservation, forestry, agriculture, or rural development projects, plus familiarity with EarthRanger, SMART, QGIS, forest carbon projects, or standards such as Equitable Earth or Verra. MEL certification is an advantage. The full-time post is based in Lumuma, Kilosa District, or Mbuga, Mpwapwa District, Morogoro, with regular domestic travel and occasional weekend work.

Compensation is commensurate with experience and includes annual leave, health insurance, and statutory contributions. Only Tanzanian nationals will be considered; visa sponsorship is unavailable. No application deadline or submission instructions are stated.