Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Responsibilities: 
Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

• Support the implementation of the programme’s MEL strategy and evaluation framework working closely with the MEL team
• Support the refinement of the programme’s Results framework, liaising closely with implementing partners to ensure alignment with expected results and support tracking of RF milestone achievement
• Support the development of an overall programme MEL workplan and routinely update it incorporating key partner MEL activities

Research, Evidence and Learning

• Support the development of an adaptive programming mechanism to be instituted across the programme and support its adoption and use by partners
• Support the Head of MEL in instituting adaptive management tools and processes and integrating successful approaches as part of routine MEL practice
• Support the process of learning and evidence sharing to ensure partner programme interventions are informed by and reaching decisions based on existing evidence

 Knowledge management and Reporting

• Support in collating programme quarterly and annual reports ensuring partner reports meet the set standards and output and outcome scoring templates for the annual review process capture impact of interventions.
• Support in the identification of data generated by the programme for inclusion in the data dashboard developed by the Data Hub.

Person specification: 

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management in a large scale, multi - country development programme
• Experience in programme performance measurement and developing monitoring, evaluation and learning monitoring plans
• Good understanding of programme and evaluation 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
• Experience working with consortiums
• Previous experience in MEL for programmes funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
• Experience providing MEL training to field officers and sub grantees