Job Description
Project Description
The
purpose of the Activity is to strengthen accountability and resilience across
the Ministry of Education (MOE) and other relevant semi-autonomous government
agencies (SAGAs) through improved collection, integration, and use of education
data and technology.
Roles:
The
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist shall work under the
leadership of the Chief of Party and will be responsible for all aspects of
MEL, including overseeing the MEL activities of sub partners and grantees, and
building their MEL capacity if needed.
Qualifications:
The
candidate for the position of MEL Specialist shall have at a minimum the
following qualifications:
Education:
- A master’s degree in statistics,
monitoring and evaluation, social sciences, or a related field from an
accredited university.
Skills and Experience:
- At least 7 years of experience supporting
MEL in developing countries, especially aspects of performance management
and reporting as well as MEL oversight and capacity building of partners.
- Experience in successfully supporting the
MEL of large-scale national reading programs in a developing country,
preferably in Kenya or East Africa, is highly desired.
- Ability to conduct needs assessment and
program design, logical framework development, key milestone indicators,
project target setting, implementing monitoring plans, coordinating
evaluations data analysis and reporting.
- Proficient in data management and
reporting systems. Experience in designing and maintaining databases
ensuring data quality and integrity.
- Demonstrated exemplary technical,
capacity building, communication, and interpersonal skills to ensure
internal coherence among diverse team members and productive relations
with the GOK, sub partners, and grantees.
- Ability to write, communicate, and
prepare reports clearly in English.
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