Senior Specialist- M&E Technology at International Rescue Committee

Requisition ID: req37397

Job Overview/Summary

Are you passionate about using technology to improve monitoring and evaluation? We are growing our team to improve the use of technology in M&E in the Great Lakes region. Together we will develop and deploy new data tools, transition from paper to electronic data collection, and improve our data flows.

Key Responsibilities

• Deployment of technologies for data collection
• Undertaking technology needs assessments for IRC programs.
• Designing and implementing project plans for countries/programs transitioning to new data collection tools.
• Configuration of non-standard project/program indicators in data collection tools.
• Ensuring data validation is well embedded in the structure of data collection tools.
• Collaborating with program, IT and supply chain teams to plan purchase of devices.
• System training and ongoing end-user support for IRC staff and partners.
• Supporting data management, analysis and visualization
• Working from standard XLSX and PBIX templates, setting up indicator database and dashboard for visualizing M&E data.
• Providing training to M&E staff on indicator databases and dashboards.
• Undertaking data quality assessments for current databases.
• Migration or transformation of existing project or country level data into standard data structures.
• Understanding user needs and ensuring these needs are well understood throughout the team
• Gathering user feedback on data tools during and after deployment.
• Participating in requirements capturing and user acceptance testing (UAT) for new tools.
• Sharing user feedback with colleagues in IT and other team feedback.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience, including with technology tools used in humanitarian/development industry.
• Proven experience in configuring and deploying technological platforms including CommCare, Kobo Collect, PowerBI, SQL Server and/or Power Apps.
• Experience providing technology support to clients and colleagues.
• Knowledge of standard methodologies in database design.
• Experience in delivering trainings and capacity building.
• Able to work independently and efficiently in a multifaceted and fast-paced environment.
• Bilingual: Fluent in French and English.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working in humanitarian development, government or other organization that focus on serving clients with technology.
• Experience of requirements analysis.
• Experience of participating in User Acceptance Testing for new IT systems