Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning Officer - Inclusion at Sightsavers

Contract: 2 Years Fixed Term

About the Role

• The Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning Officer – Inclusion will report to the Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning Manager – Inclusion (based in the UK) and split their time between supporting both disability inclusion programmes.
• Travel to all the countries in both programmes will be an essential part of the role.

The Monitoring, Evaluations and Learning Officer – Inclusion will contribute to the culture of continuous learning and improvement. They will be required to:

• Support the development and testing of MEL tools
• Support project data collection, coordination and analysis
• Support and build capacity within country teams and project steering committees to analyse programme data to inform adaptations
• Identify opportunities for inclusion of DPOs and persons with disabilities into MEL activities and practises
• Plan and facilitate project learning reviews
• Write learning reports on both programmes
• Assist with implementing the MEL framework for the Nigeria Inclusion Works project which includes data collection, analysis and reporting
• Participate in project steering committees
• Contribute to project and programme reporting
• Support project staff and evaluation consultants in conducting focus group discussions
• Manage the commissioning of external evaluation consultants
• Building capacity in learning and evaluation
• Managing the externally commissioned evaluations
• Contribute across the MEL team to support workload variations and workflow

About You
The ideal candidate will have:

• A degree in a relevant Social Science subject (International development, Sociology, Education), preferably at Master’s level
• Extensive and demonstrable experience in monitoring, evaluation and learning, preferably in the international development context
• Experience in conducting learning reviews, possibly gained in education
• Experience in managing evaluation consultants, participating in or conducting evaluations
• Understanding and knowledge of adaptive management
• Experience in MEL for social inclusion and economic empowerment
• Experience of working effectively within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams in multi country locations
• Experience of liaising with, and managing relationships with external organisations, teams and individuals
• Substantial experience in using Microsoft Office and qualitative and quantitative statistical packages such as Power BI
• Fluent written and spoken English and the ability to communicate in local languages – please specify within your application those that you speak
• This is a rewarding, demanding and diverse role and more detail may be found in the job description.

Salary
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