Technical Specialist – MEAL

Job Description

Title: Technical Specialist – MEAL

Company Name: Eco-Social Development Organization (ESDO)

Vacancy: 01

Age: At most 50 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 87281 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Postgraduate degree in statistics, economics, development studies, social sciences or monitoring and evaluation, with strong numerical skills

• At least 8 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At most 50 years

•Age at most 50 years. Age may be relaxed for highly experience candidates.

•Both male & female are allowed to apply

•At least 8 years in MEAL on complex donor-funded programmes, including database or KIMS-type systems, data quality checks and tracer or outcome studies.

•Leadership and teamwork;

•Honesty and accountability;

•Clear writing and speaking;

•Sensitivity to gender and social inclusion;

•Safeguarding awareness.

Job Context

ESDO was established in 1988 with the aim of supporting poor and marginalized people affected by the devastating flood and gradually moving towards achieving a broader vision of achieving sustainable, secured, and resilient livelihoods for these poor and marginalized people through improving their overall sustainable development. For the last more than three and a half decades of its development journey, ESDO has set an outstanding example of a sustainable development model for the underprivileged communities of Bangladesh. ESDO has been working in the country's primarily unserved and underserved locations, nurturing a community-focused participatory approach and people's ownership. Consequently, the ESDO's working area has already established an enabling environment. We have made notable achievements in livelihood improvement, food security and nutrition, education, women's empowerment, health, the promotion of children's rights, adolescent and youth engagement, and the rights of ethnic minorities. During this long span, we have adapted to the changing situation and provided the most time-bound effective services, especially to the poor and disadvantaged people. Considering the government's development policies, we are currently implementing a considerable number of projects and programs, including a microfinance program, through a community-focused and people-centered approach to accomplish the government's development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN as a whole. One of the most dynamic organizations, ESDO, is expanding its development interventions across 422 upazilas under 56 districts of Bangladesh, thereby reaching over 15.73 million impoverished and vulnerable individuals.

“ESDO is recruiting for the Transforming Aspirations, Resilience and Upskilling through Networks for Nurturing Youth Action: Building Youth Agency, Voice & Influence (TARUNNYA) project, supported by the Nagorikata: Civic Engagement Fund (CEF), whose development partners are the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the European Union (EU). This position is conditional and depends on (1) approval of the project by the NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB), Government of Bangladesh, and (2) final contracting between ESDO and GFA Consulting Group, the Fund Management Agency of Nagorikata CEF. Appointment will be made only after both conditions are met.”

ESDO is inviting applications from interested qualified candidates for the following position.

Project duration: 30 months: 1 November 2026 (M1) to 30 April 2029 (M30).

Working place: TARUNNYA project office, Dhaka (Adabor/Mohammadpur area), with regular travel to partner areas across all eight divisions, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Key Responsibilities:

•Build the results framework, indicator reference sheets, data-flow rules and monitoring calendar, in line with the CEF logframe and KIMS.

•Lead youth mapping, data quality checks, outcome monitoring and reporting.

•Design tracer studies, outcome harvesting, youth feedback and learning processes.

•Make sure data is broken down by gender, disability, ethnicity, age, location and other relevant groups.

•Lead data analysis, dashboards, quarterly learning reviews and evidence summaries.

•Protect data: informed consent, access controls, and keeping safeguarding data separate from routine monitoring.

•Give early warning when delivery falls behind the workplan milestones, and keep the corrective-action register with a named action, owner and date for each issue.

Others benefit as per project allocation.