MEAL / CAST Coordinator at The Straight Child Foundation

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

MEAL Leadership & Best Practices

• Manage and conduct assigned MEAL and Technical Team initiatives that strengthen TSCF data systems, tools, and approaches.
• Support development, documentation, and communication of MEAL and Clinical indicators.
• Promote best practices in data privacy, child safeguarding, parental rights, and ethical data use.
• Strengthen organizational capacity for results measurement and transparency.
• Relate with Clinic Coordinators and program management to ensure they are on the CAST community; monitor the activities on the community and monitor KPI improvement.
• Ensure the appropriate use of CAST as the data collection system of the clubfoot program.
• Orient, train, and retrain CAST Administrators in all clubfoot clinics under The Straight Child Foundation.
• Track clinic-level KPIs (e.g., enrollments, visit adherence, casting cycles, tenotomy rate, bracing initiation, dropout rate, data completeness, sync timeliness); produce weekly/monthly reports and dashboards; lead review meetings and action planning.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Public Health, Social Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Evaluation, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of professional experience designing and implementing M&E or MEAL activities for complex programs.
• Demonstrated mastery of diverse measurement, analytical, and evaluation techniques.
• Strong written, analytical, and verbal communication skills in English.
• Deep experience using Salesforce or similar databases; R, Stata, Python; Kobo Toolbox, SurveyCTO, or similar data collection and analytical tools.
• Demonstrated experience with conducting surveys, including survey design, programming, implementation, data processing, documentation, and analysis.
• Ability to translate quantitative analytical results into clear, actionable insights through narratives, visualizations, or well-annotated spreadsheets.