MERL Officer

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s 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 it’s 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 children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – 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 overall purpose of this role is to strengthen Plan’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system of the BHA Multi sectoral emergency project in support of programme development, learning and accountability (PALS) and quality improvements in project woredas & 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 M&E requirements are in place and that cross-cutting issues of inclusion and DRR are properly incorporated.

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES

Planning and Implementation of the Health and nutrition activities

• Developing MERL system, regularly tracking project progress and monitoring project’s contribution towards achieving wider objectives.
• Developing MERL planning system (tools for monitoring, Evaluation, learning and reporting).
• Ensures an effective performance tracking system is in place for inputs, activity, process, output, and outcome of project progress as per the set target.
• Undertake regular field monitoring visits and verify/assurance of data quality, data flow mapping, supervise quality of services provision, assess data collection system, storage, analysis and reporting process; share monitoring findings to implementing staff at project coordination office level and work with stakeholders.
• In collaboration with Project officers and coordinators, organize regular assessments and conduct a review of project progress, identify thematic areas for learning and future programming.
• Capture best experiences, organize learning and knowledge management activities from different events, training, workshops and findings collected from field works and; share lessons learned and produce progress reports of programs and prepare detailed implementation plans (DIP) for the programs.
• In collaboration with the Project Coordinator, other project staffs and stakeholders prepare plans and coordinate joint monitoring visits and project review sessions.
• Ensure necessary data is timely entered into the project database; properly analyze data and generate analytical summaries to be used for reporting and project improvement.
• Prepare and consolidated Monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual reports including success stories, Photos and timely submit them to the MERL coordinators and project managers
• Conduct timely baseline survey, midterm review, end-line survey and post-distribution monitoring

  Technical Support and Capacity Building

  • Train data collection and other M&E tools for field staff and develop a training manual
  • Support data clerk on data management and development of reporting template
  • Communicate with and support field staff to ensure the timely receipt of reports by communicating due dates, and regularly updating and maintaining project report tracking templates.
  • Organize a platform and showcases learning and lesson-sharing events
  • Provides technical support and conducts training for data collectors
  • Facilitate and support in launching workshops, kick-off meeting and joint evaluation events
  • Training colleagues in how to input and extract data
  • Work to assist other members of the organization, including analysts, programmers and program coordinators who all require reports to collate information for planning, reference, reporting and communications purposes.

    Monitoring and Supervision

    • Conduct timely baseline surveys, midterm reviews, end-line surveys and post-distribution monitoring
    • Collect and analyze community complaints and feedback regularly
    • Facilitate/Conduct joint, supportive supervision with the government stakeholders and other partners
    • Facilitates and encourages regular review meeting and review schedules at all woreda levels and help the different institutions have institutionalized commitment;
    • Together with other Child protection, health and nutrition and WASH team sets project quality standards and action steps and monitor the performance accordingly;
    • Prepare a monthly program support plan that helps to visit field activities and provide formal and informal feedback to the program staff in terms of recommendations for improved performance;
      • Collect key client data and prepare reports on progress made, together with observations, challenges faced, and lessons learned

        Ensuring on time reporting, data quality and learning documentation