ADVERTISEMENT- MEAL Coordinator

Solomon Islands Knowledge-Action-Sustainability for Resilient Villages project (SOLKAS) is seeking interested and qualified applicants for the position of MEAL Coordinator in Honiara on this locally led climate adaptation project.

The MEAL Coordinator will work closely with the Program Quality and MEAL Manager to lead monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, and reporting for the SOLKAS Project. The role focuses on collecting, analysing, and sharing evidence of project results, helping demonstrate impact, improve performance, and support informed decision-making and continuous learning.

Key Areas of Accountability

• Lead the implementation of the project’s accountability and feedback mechanisms, ensuring communities can safely raise feedback, concerns and grievances.
• Design and manage outcome-focused monitoring and evaluation activities, including surveys, assessments and effectiveness evaluations.
• Analyse and report data to demonstrate project outcomes, impact and progress against project targets.
• Generate evidence, learning products and success stories to support adaptive management and showcase project achievements.
• Ensure accurate and timely data collection, management and reporting, including maintaining Power BI dashboard data
• Build the capacity of project staff and partners in MEAL systems, tools and approaches, promoting a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Uphold child safeguarding standards and support emergency preparedness and response activities as required.

About SOLKAS Project
The SOLKAS Project is one of the largest locally led adaptation projects globally, and one of the first with a strong focus on the education sector. Largely funded under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) with co-finance from the governments of Australia, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands, the project will reduce children, youth and communities’ exposure to climate hazards and help build sustainable, resilient communities and livelihoods in the context of climate change. SOLKAS is a partnership with the Government of the Solomon Islands, through the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Disaster Management, and Meteorology (MECDM), and Save the Children Solomon Islands (SCSI). Implementing ministries include MEHRD, MAL, MRD, MWYCA, MFMR, MECDM and MPGIS.

Working with communities across six provinces, the project will strengthen resilience to climate change impacts by strengthening the capacities of national, subnational, and local governments, communities, and schools to understand, plan for and implement responses to the climate crisis through 3 components:   

1. Community-led development of adaptation plans, building climate change knowledge and skills, and access to climate change information.
2. Resilient livelihoods, food and nutrition security, and school-level building retrofits; and
3. Institutional strengthening.

Application Requirements:
Interested candidates should provide the following documents below.
1. Cover letter responding to the job criteria in the Position Description.
2. An updated Curriculum Vitae (CV)
3. Certificates and academic achievements.

Applicants can contact Save the Children-SOLKAS PMU Human Resources to request the Position Description, by sending an email to solkas.hr@savethechildren.org.au

Application closes on Friday 31st July 2026. Please apply if you have the skill sets and experiences, we are looking for.

All applications should be addressed to:
SOLKAS Team Lead
SOLKAS PMU
Save the Children – Solomon Islands Office
Honiara, Solomon Islands

All Applications must be emailed to solkas.hr@savethechildren.org.au

Save the Children is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct.

NOTE: ONLY SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED