Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Summary purpose and objective of role

The MEL officer is responsible for supporting the Head of MEL, the programme team and consortium partners in implementing the programme MEL framework, including:

• Supporting the coordination and monitoring of programme MEL activities including data collection and analysis
• Mapping data to the results framework
• Ensuring evidence and learning feeds into programme adaptation and is communicated externally to the wider sector
• Ensuring the Communications, Advocacy and Movement-building team have comprehensive MEL plans for their activities, and support their implementation.

Person specification

• Minimum of five years’ experience in MEL, including data management, in a large scale, multi-country development programme
• Experience in programme performance measurement and developing monitoring, evaluation and learning plans
• Good understanding of programme evaluation and learning cycles, data analysis and presentation of results
• Experience using major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and data collection and analysis methodologies
• Experience in MEL for gender and rights-based programmes, and/or in MEL for communications and advocacy
• Experience providing MEL training to field officers and sub-grantees
• The candidate will be empathetic and emotionally intelligent, as the role involves working closely with women and girls who may have experienced violence.
• Ideally, the candidate will have experience working with consortia, and will have previous experience in MEL for programmes funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) or similar funders.