Monitoring Evaluation Learning and Accountability Office at Danish Refugee Council

The overall purpose of the role: 

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability &Learning (MEL) Officer will provide technical support to the project’s MEL Lead in ensuring timely and quality implementation of the project M&E plan. Specifically, the MEL Officer will lead implementation of project MEL activities in the project field locations, including oversight of and technical assistance to grantee MEL activities

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensures full compliance with the project MEL plan, as well as DRC’s Minimum Monitoring Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Standards.
• Collaborates in developing and maintaining the project’s data collection methodologies, ensure adherence to the principles of Conflict Sensitivity, Do No Harm and gender equality and social inclusion (GESI). 
• Supports field data collection for monitoring, survey and operational research, including overseeing the work of enumerators
• Supports in establishing adaptable MEL tools and templates, including by translating finalised tools into local languages.
• Contributes to project reporting and learning products/events
• Supports the MEL Lead in providing training to grantees and enumerators as required
• Ensures the timeliness and quality of data collection, including support to data cleaning and analysis, and ensures all captured data is managed according to information management standards and best practices.  
• Identifies grantee MEL-related capacity needs and opportunities for capacity building, and assumes responsibility for facilitating related trainings.
• In collaboration with other team members, supports the implementation.

Experience and technical competencies:

• A minimum of 4 years of MEL experience within the international development and/or humanitarian field.  
• Demonstrated working knowledge of theories of change, logframes, results frameworks, monitoring plans, developing data-collection tools and protocols, leading data-collection and management processes, designing and managing databases, and analyzing data.  
• Excellent analytical, presentation, and report-writing skills. 
• Strong computer literacy, including with applications such as Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and data analysis software such as SPSS or Stata
• Previous experience with electronic or mobile data-collection such as Kobo
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines. 

Education: 

• A Bachelor’s Degree in the Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics or Information Management Sciences.