MEL Officer
Pact seeks a Monitoring,
Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer for the USAID-funded Strengthening
Youth and Women’s Civic Participation Project. The project aims to increase
collaboration, sustainability, and resilience of civil society and independent
media to advance the inclusion, participation and leadership of youth and women
in Sudan. The activity will apply locally led, problem-driven, adaptive
approaches. This program will be starting Y2 of an anticipated five-year
activity, with a dramatic shift in the operating context since the program
startup in Khartoum in October 2o22. This position will be based in Nairobi,
Kenya with occasional travel in the East Africa region, and potentially
relocating to Khartoum, Sudan if and when the context and operating environment
become more conducive.
Reporting to the MEL
Director, the MEL Officer will provide strategic guidance, vision, and
management for successful monitoring, evaluation and learning of the program.
S/he will contribute to the development, implementation, and revision of the
Annual MEL Plan, provide technical direction and support to MEL activities,
ensure accurate and compelling reporting of results for program activities, and
ensure activities align with Pact’s quality standards for MEL in close
coordination with Pact’s Learning, Evidence, and Impact (LEAP) Team based in
Washington, DC.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the implementation of the project’s MERL
system
- Support the maintenance of MEL systems including MEL
plans, performance indicators, data collection & reporting tools, data
management systems and standard operating procedures (data quality
management plan)
- Develop and disseminate relevant M&E tools and formats
and lead the provision of M&E specific technical training
- Work closely with partners to establish their internal MERL
systems, M&E plans, and data quality management
- Ensure supportive supervision of all partners in monitoring
and evaluation procedures, data collection tools, and data management
practices in alignment with the MEL Plan
- Support data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and
reporting, ensuring that data is of high quality and audit worthy
- Conduct Routine Data Quality Assessments (RDQA) and implement
corrective actions to improve data quality and accountability of staff and
partners
- Support evaluations including designing and executing
internal baseline, midterm and endline assessments as appropriate, and
support the implementation of learning activities, with Pact’s DC LEAP Team
- Support external evaluation processes, including drafting
evaluation ToR and selection of firm, and managing the consultants in
alignment with award
- Develop and maintain accurate information in a project
database, as well as accurate and timely electronic files
- Support calculation and reporting of Pact’s Global Indicators
through imPact, Pact’s instance of DHIS2, and calculation and
reporting of project data into impact
- Support data analysis, writing, and review of the results and
learning sections of program reports in collaboration with program staff,
before submission to donor and ensure consortium partners’ compliance with
internal data quality requirements and timely submissions for reporting
- Help ensure the project’s MEL systems and outputs meet
minimum quality standards.
- Contribute to the development of various research designs and
other research related activities including tools preparation, training of
research assistants, data collection supervision, data analysis
(qualitative & quantitative), and reporting
- Provide MEL capacity development to partners
- Employee complies with all company policies and procedures,
including completing all compliance training topics by the deadline to
satisfy each and receiving the corresponding acknowledgment statement that
the training has been completed
- Other tasks as assigned
Basic Requirements
- Master’s degree in statistics, demographics, public policy,
international development, economics, or a related field with five (5)
years work experience or bachelor’s degree with at least seven (7+) years
work experience
- A minimum of five years of professional experience in a
senior M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of
international development projects is required
- Demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and
operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout
stages is required
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and performance
measurement, including indicator design, target setting, reporting,
database management, and developing M&E and/performance monitoring
plans, is required
- Demonstrated experience in designing and administering data
collection tools, conducting data entry, data cleaning, and data
processing & analysis is required
- Knowledge of and experience with key democracy, human rights,
governance programming indicators and USAID data collection and reporting
systems
- Demonstrated relevant technical skills in analyzing and
interpreting quantitative and qualitative data and packaging the findings
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, i.e., Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, etc., and the ability to use various commercially available
statistical and data visualization software programs e.g. STATA, R,
PowerBI, Tableau
- Demonstrated experience managing and providing ongoing
training to M&E field officers and/or sub-awardees is required
- Knowledge of the major evaluation and research methodologies
(e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data
collection and analysis methodologies are required
- Experience with data quality assessments and oversight
- Demonstrated to work well on a team and with various partner
organizations
- Fluency in English is required
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of key evaluation methods such as Outcome Mapping
(OM) and Most Significant Change (MSC)
- Fluency in Arabic is desired
- Knowledge of the political, social, and economic context
of Sudan
- Sudanese nationals strongly encouraged to apply
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