SUDIA (Sudanese Development Initiative), an IUCN Member, is recruiting a part-time, fully remote Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Specialist for a UNDP/GEF-funded community livelihoods project at Dungonab Bay and Mukkawar Island Marine National Park (DBMNP), Red Sea State, Sudan, the Red Sea's only natural UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The project, running to 30 September 2027, supports the park communities of Mohamed Qol and Dungonab through a community-based tourism plan and governance framework, a community grant mechanism, women's hydroponic vegetable production and cooperatives, and a community tourism hub. The MEL Specialist will help SUDIA show not only what the project delivered, but what changed: in household income, in women's participation and decision-making, and in pressure on the park's marine resources.
Key responsibilities
- Finalise and quality-assure the bilingual (Arabic/English) household baseline survey (Oct–Dec 2026) and the 2027 endline
- Finalise the MEL Plan and indicator tracking table, and build simple bilingual tools for the field team
- Consolidate monthly monitoring data, run data-quality checks and flag off-track indicators
- Draft the results sections of quarterly and annual progress reports for UNDP
- Ensure sex-disaggregated data, meaningful measurement of women's participation, and sound data ethics
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in statistics, economics, social sciences, development studies, environmental or natural resource management, or a related field
- At least 3 years of MEL experience on donor-funded development, livelihoods or conservation projects
- Experience designing household surveys, including sampling, pre-testing and enumerator training
- Excel plus SPSS, Stata or R; KoboToolbox or ODK an asset
- Fluent Arabic and English
Terms
- Location: fully remote (home-based)
- Time: part-time, an average of 6 working days per month
- Contract: monthly retainer from 25 October 2026 to 30 September 2027
- Eligibility: open to all nationalities; Sudanese nationals and candidates with experience in Sudan strongly preferred
How to apply
Email a cover letter (max. 2 pages), CV, three professional referees and one sample of MEL work you authored to [email protected] with the subject line "MEL Specialist — Part-time Remote".
Closing date: 15 October 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Full details: www.sudia.org/careers/mel-specialist
Terms of Reference (PDF): download
SUDIA is an equal-opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from women and from candidates from Red Sea State.
