The Youth and Women Peacebuilding Foundation (YAWP Foundation) is a Nigerian-based non-profit organisation incorporated in May 2026, dedicated to building lasting peace and empowering vulnerable communities. We focus on youth, women, and other marginalised groups in fragile and conflict-affected areas. Ouroverall goal is to promote sustainable peace, reduce conflict and violence, and empower individuals and communities, especially youth, women, and vulnerable groups, to achieve economic self-reliance and social cohesion through inclusive development and livelihood opportunities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer (Volunteer)

Location: Plateau

Position Summary

• The MEL Officer designs, establishes, and maintains user-friendly monitoring and evaluation systems across all youth and women empowerment projects.
• The role ensures data collected from the field directly informs project adaptations, demonstrates accountability to donor requirements, captures gender-transformative changes, and elevates youth and women’s voices through participatory evaluation techniques.

Core Responsibilities
MEL System Design & Indicator Tracking:

• Develop project-specific MEL frameworks, indicator tracking tables (ITTs), and logic models tailored to gender equality, social inclusion, and youth development goals.
• Integrate gender-sensitive and age-disaggregated indicators to track participation, decision-making power, economic empowerment, and protection outcomes.
• Establish user-friendly data collection tools (digital surveys, focus group guides, baseline/endline tools and KII) using mobile platforms (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare).

Field Data Collection & Quality Assurance:

• Oversee routine monitoring activities, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness across project locations.
• Conduct field visits to observe activity implementation, verify attendance logs, and audit data collected by youth/women volunteers or community enumerators.
• Train project staff and field enumerators on data collection ethics, informed consent, and safeguarding principles when working with young people and vulnerable women.

Accountability & Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM):

• Establish and manage safe, confidential, and accessible community feedback and response mechanisms (e.g., feedback boxes, helplines, participatory review sessions).
• Ensure feedback from young women, adolescent girls, and marginalized youth is systematically analyzed, referred to management, and acted upon.
• Integrate Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) pathways into routine feedback channels.

Learning, Knowledge Management & Storytelling:

• Facilitate quarterly learning review sessions with program teams to analyze data, identify bottlenecks, and adapt implementation strategies in real time.
• Capture qualitative impact using participatory methodologies like Most Significant Change (MSC), outcome harvesting, and digital storytelling/photovoice.
• Draft comprehensive MEL sections for donor narrative reports, case studies, and policy briefs.

Requirements & Qualifications
Applicants should have:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, research skills, or a related field.
• At least 2 years in evidence-based research, data analysis, project monitoring and evaluation, or a similar role.
• Good communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Google Workspace and relevant digital tools.
• Experience working with NGOs, communities, youth, women, or other relevant stakeholders is an advantage.
• Applicants must demonstrate integrity, professionalism, confidentiality, and commitment to safeguarding.

Key Technical Competencies:

• Methodologies- Gender-sensitive MEL, Participatory Action Research, Most Significant Change (MSC), Outcome Harvesting, Do No Harm.
• Digital Tools- KoboToolbox / ODK, Power BI / Excel, SPSS or Stata (basic to intermediate), Google Workspace.
• Frameworks- Logical Frameworks, Theory of Change, SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work), and youth inclusion matrices.
• Soft Skills- Youth-friendly facilitation, ethical data handling, active listening, cross-cultural sensitivity, report writing.

Other Attributes:

• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Commitment to humanitarian and development values, volunteerism, and community service.
• Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities.

Benefits of Volunteering with YAWP Foundation

• Opportunity to contribute to life-saving humanitarian, development and peace interventions.
• Practical experience in program leadership and humanitarian coordination.
• Exposure to donor engagement, proposal development, and project management.
• Professional networking opportunities with humanitarian actors and development partners.
• Capacity-building and learning opportunities.
• Certificate of Service and Recommendation Letter upon successful completion of the volunteer period.
• Opportunity for future engagement subject to organizational needs and performance.

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2026.