Monitoring, Evaluation and Verification Officer at SoCha

Scope of Work:

The MEL Officer supports MSP’s Program Quality Improvement Team (PQIT), the Mission and other implementing partners activities related to monitoring, evaluation and verification. S/he is responsible for providing high quality inputs to MEL work orders and other related deliverables and products.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Contribute to development and editing of reporting content for MSP progress and MEL reports.
• Support revisions and maintenance of project AMELP and compilation and reporting on project indicators.
• Participate in outcome harvesting interviews, record findings, and develop synthesis/ reporting content.
• Support review of IP MEL plans.
• Participate in MEL field data collection.
• Contribute to the design, logistics and facilitation of MEL related trainings.
• Support data quality assessments, including knowledge capture, interviews, document review, analysis and reporting.
• Lead knowledge capture during internal and external team and MEL related meetings and discussions.
• Third Party Monitoring/Monitoring & Verification
• Support planning and coordination of site visits process (both remote and in-person).
• Contribute to methodology development, inclusive of data collection tools.
• Undertake qualitative and quantitative data collection.
• Support qualitative and quantitative data analysis and high-level report writing.
• Co-facilitate briefing/meetings with USAID and partner staff on findings.
• Support the development of digital and GIS data collection methods and tools. (i.e. KoBo, ODK, ArcGIS (Survey 123) and DHIS2).
• Participate in regular check-in calls with USAID staff, as required.
• Support broader MEL and M&V related work orders, as determined by the supervisor.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & skills

• English language proficiency: must be able to write clearly in English.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• 5+ years’ experience with MEL, including support to performance management plans, creation and execution of MEL training, creating and implementing data collection tools.
• Experience with data management platforms.
• Experience working on USAID project level MEL.
• Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, International Development Statistics or any other related field.
• Kenyan Nationals preferred.