MEAL Officer (Turkana) at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Job Description (Summary)

• The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) Officer manages information and reporting processes and products to ensure professional, high-quality communication about ADRA
• Kenya’s TOGETHER programmatic activities and results. The MEL Officer will also play an essential role in improving information management and data quality and strengthening knowledge sharing and learning at the community level (through ColMEL) across the organization and with the international health and development communities. The MEL Officer
• will assume responsibility for full-cycle monitoring and evaluation of the TOGETHER project, developing appropriate methodologies and tools to design evaluations.

Specific Tasks
General M&E Tasks:

• Develop, implement, and assess monitoring frameworks for the TOGETHER projects.
• Develop the overall framework for project M&E systems in collaboration with the Project Manager, ADRA Canada, Salanga, including requirements, reporting, baseline, and annual survey and evaluation surveys; develop and monitor project management plan to systematically document performance
• Ensure the alignment of M&E activities with program goals
• Ensure adherence to specific monitoring and reporting requirements for GAC funded projects, including requirements related to Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation framework, Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC) Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) as well as other requirements under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Contribute to the development of the Program implementation Plan (PIP), annual work plans and detailed implementation plans (DIPs) to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities
• Develop and maintain indicator tracking tools; as well as databases and other tracking tools as needed to demonstrate the effectiveness of project the monthly database
• Analyse data for accuracy, flag validation or quality issues, and contribute to systemfixes, management decision-making and reporting
• Ensure timely development and submission of reports including progress reports including monthly and quarterly indicator performance reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites to monitor program development and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data; capture and document lessons learned, and champion the scaling up best practices.
• Edit content and presentation of all reporting and deliverables before submission to ensure superior quality and professionalism.
• Ensure timely submission of relevant MEAL documents as required by the donor

Other Tasks:

• Support in reviewing and refining the organizational level monitoring evaluation accountability and learning framework, including training project staff on M&E and community-led monitoring evaluation and learning approaches.
• Support the development, design, and writing of proposals and concept notes for related programming information management and reporting
• Perform other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objective by the supervisor

Education 

• University degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Demographics, Public Health, International Development, or any social science with additional training in Monitoring and Evaluation is preferred.

Experience 

• At least three (3) years’ experience in project
• implementation/management, with proven success in designing, implementing, and operating M&E systems from project initiation to close out.
• Extensive experience in strategic planning and performance management, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans Experience in planning and managing surveys, developing and refining
• data collection tools, and with data quality assessments and oversight Demonstrated experience in participatory processes and in facilitating dialogue among and between communities, development partners, the private sector, civil society, and government on sensitive matters
• A good understanding of the social-economic and environmental dynamics of the ASAL counties, of Kenya particularly, Turkana County