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  • Posted: Jun 21, 2016
    Deadline: Jun 28, 2016
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    MEAL Officer - Advocacy Pilot

    Role Purpose

    • The purpose of this role is to serve as M&E focal point for the advocacy MEAL pilot; to strengthen our advocacy M&E especially towards measuring advocacy influence and impact and improving our strategies to scale up the impact of our deliverables for children.
    • The position will also support on-going efforts to strengthen existing knowledge management and learning at the country office level and area/field offices; in cross-cutting themes, as necessary.

    Key Areas of Accountability
    Coordinate the Advocacy MEAL Pilot:

    • Represent the MEAL team on all pilot implementation activities
    • Participate in the testing of user friendly innovative advocacy MEAL methodology
    • Support the development of tools to measure the impact of advocacy which respond to country and member office context
    • Support the pre-test of pilot tools and provide comprehensive pre-test report to inform improvements in methodology or design
    • Provide technical and administrative support for the pilot capacity building workshop

    Manage and maintain country office MEAL resource bases:

    • Manage the research/evaluation pipeline and facilitate the quality check and summary of evaluations received
    • Ensure research/evaluations are catalogued in an accessible manner to enable technical review and extraction of learning
    • Maintain the catalogue of Monitoring and Evaluation training resources
    • Support the maintenance and continued improvement of the research registry/lessons learned

    Support knowledge management and learning initiatives at the country office:

    • Facilitating monitoring, evaluation and learning trainings
    • Support the extraction and analysis of learning from a range of data sources
    • Develop and use appropriate communication formats and methods for the dissemination of analysed learning

    Other:

    • Provide support to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in cross-cutting themes, as necessary
    • To perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from time to time in order to ensure the smooth running of the MEAL team

    Essential Skills & Experience

    • At least a Bachelor's Degree in related field and 2 years of professional experience.
    • Previous experience with other local and international NGOs
    • Advanced computer literacy (MS Office applications, web-based applications and advanced statistical package utilization e.g SPSS,STATA-12,DHIS etc)
    • Excellent data management and IT skills, and experience of finding practical ways to manage data using IT solutions; good knowledge of Microsoft Excel
    • Good understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation and assessment to promote evidence-based learning
    • Some knowledge of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods
    • Strong communications skills (both written and verbal). The ability to analyze complex data and summarize it for a range of different audiences.
    • Fluency in English, spoken and written
    • Ability to work within a team setting
    • Good interpersonal skills
    • A flexible and initiative-taking attitude with the ability to manage and prioritize workload
    • Ability to work in partnership with government and other NGO’s staff

    Desirable:

    • Good understanding of accountability principles in terms of donors and organizational management but critically also to beneficiaries.

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