About the Role
The overall purpose of the role:
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability &Learning (MEL) Officer will provide technical support to the project’s MEL Lead in ensuring timely and quality implementation of the project M&E plan. Specifically, the MEL Officer will lead implementation of project MEL activities in the project field locations, including oversight of and technical assistance to grantee MEL activities
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Ensures full compliance with the project MEL plan, as well as DRC’s Minimum Monitoring Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Standards.
- Collaborates in developing and maintaining the project’s data collection methodologies, ensure adherence to the principles of Conflict Sensitivity, Do No Harm and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI).
- Supports field data collection for monitoring, survey and operational research, including overseeing the work of enumerators
- Supports in establishing adaptable MEL tools and templates, including by translating finalised tools into local languages.
- Contributes to project reporting and learning products/events
- Supports the MEL Lead in providing training to grantees and enumerators as required
- Ensures the timeliness and quality of data collection, including support to data cleaning and analysis, and ensures all captured data is managed according to information management standards and best practices.
- Identifies grantee MEL-related capacity needs and opportunities for capacity building, and assumes responsibility for facilitating related trainings.
- In collaboration with other team members, supports the implementation.
Experience and technical competencies:
- A minimum of 4 years of MEL experience within the international development and/or humanitarian field.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of theories of change, logframes, results frameworks, monitoring plans, developing data-collection tools and protocols, leading data-collection and management processes, designing and managing databases, and analyzing data.
- Excellent analytical, presentation, and report-writing skills.
- Strong computer literacy, including with applications such as Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and data analysis software such as SPSS or Stata
- Previous experience with electronic or mobile data-collection such as Kobo
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
Education:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in the Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics or Information Management Sciences.
How to Apply
https://job.drc.ngo/jobs/job?id=167813&utm_source=MyJobMag