MERL Coordinator

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries. We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity:

The position holder will be responsible for strengthening Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) system for the sport for peace and resilient project implementation, Youth Engagement Initiative, ensuring project quality, accountability, and learning. This role supports evidence-based decision-making, capacity building, and knowledge dissemination, while integrating cross-cutting priorities such as gender equality, inclusion, climate resilience, and disaster risk reduction. The MERL Coordinator will lead all Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning activities and project implementations for the Adidas Foundation project in Tigray PA and Provide technical support to field staff during project content development, including piloting and core intervention design.

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Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

The Individual:

Qualifications/ Experience/Skills Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant MERL experience. At least 3 years in NGO
• Strong analytical, reporting, and digital data collection skills.
• Experience in youth-focused or participatory programming preferred.
• Experience in Monitoring Evaluation, Research and learning
• Knowledge of Quantitative methods for data collection and analysis, sampling strategies for quantitative methods. Proficient use of statistical analysis software such as SPSS, R, STATA.
• Sound analytical and capability;
• Experience is Project Coordination

Qualifications/ experience desirable:

Experience in budget management.

Location: Mekelle

Type of Role: MERL Coordinator

Reports to: Project Manager-Adidas Foundation, S4D Project

Grade: D1

Closing Date: January 18,2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas. We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.  A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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