The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrenโs rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And itโs girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support childrenโs rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for โ and respond to โ crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.
ROLE PURPOSE
The MERL Coordinator will be responsible to implement a functional M&E system at project level in response to emergencies. She/he will work closely with partners and will support the Field Emergency Response Manager/coordinator and the program teams with technical oversight and direction from the Senior MERL Coordinator on all monitoring and evaluation needs across implementing areas. The MERL Coordinator will support the provision of program staff at Plan and partner organizations with the information and training to capture monitoring metrics regularly and efficiently.
Plan International Ethiopia is looking for MEAL coordinator for its humanitarian response project in Borena zone in Oromia. The overall purpose of this role is to strengthen Planโs Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) system & accountability in our humanitarian response endeavours in targeted woredas of Borena zone. He/she ensures that program quality is reflected within the project cycle and the project implementation is undertaken efficiently and effectively by reflecting that all MERL requirements are in place and that cross-cutting issues of inclusion and DRR are properly incorporated.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Accountability (100%):
KPI 1: Ensures M&E is integrated into all Child Protection and Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) in Emergency new project designs & DIP ensuring that appropriate frameworks are incorporated and MERL planning is integrated across the project life cycle
- Identify performance indicators, develops quality assurance protocol, and ensure all program aspects comply with Plan International MERL requirements.
- Establish and identify specific, measurable, and relevant indicators for Child Protection and MPCA in an emergency project.
- Engage in proposal preparations and ensure the establishment of logical frameworks, M&E work plans, and targets in child protection and MPCA project.
- Engage and contribute to the PIE learning agenda as it relates to gender transformation in all child protection and MPCA project
- Collaborate with child protection and MPCA project staff to translate project learning and results into accessible technical products for global and country stakeholders.
KPI 2: Engage in the design of quality data collection tools, and ensure that quality data are collected, analysed, and used to improve ongoing Child protection and MPCA project implementation.
- Ensure data management system and result-based management in all child protection and MPCA project.
- Develop quantitative and qualitative tools and analysis frameworks for each of the child protection and MPCA interventions, including data collection instruments
- Use data to make programmatic recommendations to support the Programme Directorโs presentation to the Country Leadership Team.
- Develop routine data collection and validation tools/systems that optimize statistical efficiency and quality that ensure the results feed meaningfully into Child Protection and MPCA in the emergency project design and implementation plans.
- Engage in usage and implementation of programmatic data to PMERL through Taro work -offline mobile data collection, analysis metrics, and managing fieldwork in real-time.
KPI 3: Support program quality section in data synthesis and consistently make sure the submission of high-quality evidence results-based reports that informs Plan International child protection and MPCA projectโs performance indicators.
- Conduct and oversee the analysis of data from day-to-day child protection and MPCA project.
- Engage in the review of all child protection and MPCA project quarterly, bi-annual, and annual narrative reports and ensure accuracy and evidence and result based before submission to the heads for endorsement
- Support the MPCA and child protection in emergency projectโs quality implementation and that they deliver as per action plans and according to high-quality standards.
- Support the implementation of the program quality framework and Program and Influencing Program Quality Policy
KPI 4: Develop and oversee monitoring and evaluation activities to track the outcome and impact of child protection and MPCA response implementation
- Ensure child protection and MPCA in emergencies adhere to the annual plans and M&E framework through regular monitoring visits to detect gaps and initiate corrective measures.
- Ensure that child protection in emergency and MPCA project activities has a robust monitoring plan in place and indicator trackers.
- Engage in the design and preparation of baseline, midline, and end-line surveys including preparation of Terms of References and protocol for all PIE child protection and MPCA in emergencies
- Supporting child protection and MPCA in emergencies through primary data collection efforts, coding, analysis, and interpretation, and cooperation with local consultants or firms
KPI 5: Manage Operational Systems Support and Capacity building programs for program personnel to help update their skills,
- Support in the capacity assessment of partners to identify strengths and capability gaps across the partnersโ organization and develop a capacity development plan
- Explore and provide recommendations for innovative technologies to streamline MERL and other operational functions.