MEAL Consultant

Oxfam America

Lead evaluation for Oxfam’s Disaster Risk Reduction project across multiple countries in Asia. Conduct assessments to improve local capacities and sustainability of interventions.

Posted 7/3/2026contractRemote • 🇵🇭 PhilippinesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The consulting team will lead and develop a robust methodology adequate to answer the key evaluation questions and to assess the level of sustainability.
Review available documentation on current and past projects and evaluations.
Consult communities, local NGOs and local authorities and define sustainability and local leadership in those specific contexts to design the evaluation’s methodology to evaluate the sustainability of Oxfam’s DRR interventions, and validate the sustainability domains proposed in this ToR.
Conduct culturally appropriate data collection in Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, and in the Philippines when necessary.
Review and sense-making of evaluation findings with the right stakeholders to obtain rich insights and analytical points that are context-specific.
Write one evaluation report answering the key evaluation questions and provide credible findings and evidence.
Share learnings with various audiences and develop an uptake plan per country that will inform Oxfam and partners on what actions to take and plan to share key findings with a variety of audiences.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have a minimum of 7 years of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) experience managing multi-country evaluation projects in Disaster Risk Reduction, Humanitarian, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Resilience, Food Security, other relevant areas.
Have conducted studies, evaluations or surveys to better understand, learn about and measure disaster preparedness or humanitarian action
Have very solid knowledge of, and experience using a diversity of M&E approaches and methods mixing qualitative and quantitative methods to accurately answer evaluation questions.
Is able to lead and support the whole evaluation team. Have experience in building a team of local evaluators/consultants in the region to collaborate on a multi-country programme evaluation, and remotely working with them and advising them in the most effective manner.
Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to accurately and concisely convey informative and formative answers to evaluation questions in a report and PPT presentations and other dissemination products, as well as liaising with a diverse teams in country (Oxfam and implementing partners, in-country evaluators, local stakeholders), and community members in a respectful and culturally-appropriate manner.
Experience in effectively and visually presenting using multiple media evaluation findings and learnings adapted to the target audience and users of the evaluation: teams (Oxfam and implementing partners), local and national government structures and community members.
Experience in effectively and visually presenting using multiple media evaluation findings and learnings adapted to the target audience and users of the evaluation: teams (Oxfam and implementing partners), local and national government structures and community members.
Have good facilitation skills both online and in face-to-face contexts and able to provide a toolbox of facilitation methods for the whole evaluation team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Oxfam is committed to providing a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace
Expectations to promote human rights
Induction on Oxfam’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding Principles

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Hard Skills & Tools

Evaluation Methodology DevelopmentData CollectionReport WritingAnalytical SkillsCulturally Appropriate Communication

Soft Skills

Verbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationInterpersonal SkillsFacilitation Skills