Job Overview/Summary
The IRC is seeking to hire a full time Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) in Nigeria to support projects across our portfolio of the education Global Research & Innovation Priority (GRIP). Our multi-disciplinary teams build, facilitate, and contribute to projects that span research and ideation through prototyping, piloting, evaluation and scaling. Our solutions are co-created in partnership with colleagues and partners from the regions where we work.
You must be comfortable in a fast paced, collaborative and flexible working environment to help to manage the diverse, multi-disciplinary work. Experience working in cross-functional teams is essential. The successful candidate will report to the Ed-Tech Specialist in Nigeria and will be responsible for providing technical leadership for all the education activities, including leading and coordinating the non-formal education program and systems support activities at the national and state level.
Key Responsibilities
Program/Project Design
- Implements baseline, midline, and endline evaluations, as well as MEL data collection, particularly EGRA, EGMA and assessments.
- Conduct training for education staff on the MEL system, performance indicators, data quality assurance, and facilitative data collection with local partners and stakeholders.
- Participate in project review, especially in AMELP, Log frames, and learning agenda.
- With support from the MEL Coordinator, establish and maintain a project-level information management system.
- Closely work with the education program team to ensure the project has tested standard monitoring tools that capture both program activity and indicators’ progress.
- Ensure data collections tools are standardized and appropriately used to meet both organizational and donor requirements.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Conduct routine monitoring visits to project locations, particularly learning centers.
- Support the conduct of the Teacher Classroom Observation (TCO) across project sites.
- Ensure data collected are routinely verified, analysis and reported according to the DQA standards.
- Ensure that data are readily available and store appropriately for any future reference.
- Conduct quarterly Data Quality Audits
- Facilitate collaborative learning sessions, with strategic innovations involving the client we served.
- Perform clear statistical analysis on the data collected and present the findings/results to program colleagues for informed decisions.
Information Management and Reporting:
- Support the establishing and maintaining project information management system.
- Ensure the appropriate reporting of field level data that is responsive and align to project indicators.
- Ensure proper tracking of project indicators, particularly recording and reporting data.
- Contribute to monthly and quarterly reporting by providing the verified data that’s meets the DQA standards.
- Work closely with advocacy communication coordinator to develope human interest stories that showcase the relevant and impact of EdTech and Innovation project.
Capacity building and supervision:
- Provide technical training to project staff, partners, and project stakeholder particularly the Learning facilitators, mentor teachers and research assistant on data collection and management process.
- Train project staff, and partners’ staff on project deliverables, especially the project result areas and indicators.
- Engage in one-on-one mentorship with supervisors and subordinate for capacity enhancement.
Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor.
- Perform other task-related assignments proposed by his/her supervisor/s
Qualifications
- Education qualifications: Degree/diploma in statistics, computer science/IT/or any sector or sub-sector related field
- Work Experience: - At least three (3)-years’ experience working in monitoring and evaluation preferred.
Demonstrated Technical Skills:
- Demonstrated strong skills in developing & conducting data collection such as: Kobo collect, Ona, Comcare, SurveyCTO, Mobenzi, etc.
- Demonstrated knowledge on the use of statistical packages such as STATA, SPSS, Nvivo, Microsoft excel, QGIS, PowerBi, Tableu etc.
- Demonstrated report writing skill, facilitation, and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently, think analytically and take initiative in solving problems.
- Familiarity with education programming with added advantage if implement USAID grant.
- Experience in conducting assessment, particularly EGRA, EGMA, ASER
- Experience working with children and caregivers.
- Good team player with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in diverse context.
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