Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children's rights and equality for girls. We support children's rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for โ and respond to โ crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.
Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years and are now active in more than 70 countries, driving changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. Plan International is registered in Nigeria with the Corporate Affairs Commission.
Deadline for application submission: 3rd July 2023
Location: Borno State
ROLE PURPOSE
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will implement the projectโs Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) initiatives by providing timely, accurate information on project implementation and ensure that monitoring and evaluation are in line with specific project and donor requirements, and in line with Plan Internationalโs MERL standards. The roleโs support is to achieve accountability, transparency and programme quality in project locations. The post holder is to ensure that projectโs activities are in line with the Logical Framework and relevant guidelines.
DIMENSION OF THE ROLE
Under the supervision of the project manager and with technical line reporting to the M&E Coordinator, the M&E Officer will communicate with the Project Manager, M&E Coordinator and across Plan International Nigeria and field level implementing partners. The post holder will support the establishment and utilization of a systematic Monitoring and Evaluation system for the project. The post holder will interface and support programme team members and programme coordination. The role requires strong facilitation and organizational skills along with the ability to analyze and communicate complex information to all staff, partners and other stakeholders. The role requires strong facilitation and organizational skills along with the ability to analyze and communicate complex information to all staff, partners and other stakeholders. This role also requires the capacity to support creatively methods for ensuring high levels of engagement of diverse children/adolescents from marginalized groups in M&E processes. This requires using creativity to support the design studies and data collection tools that are as child-friendly as possible, including adolescents from low-income and low literacy settings.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
In collaboration with the Project coordinator, CO M and E manager and other relevant staff, the M&E officer will:
- Support the development and implementation of projectโs MERL framework to capture project performance and results, including data reporting, assessments, and all monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Contribute to the monthly and quarterly project target review sessions.
- Support the development of data flow pattern for project that will ensure timely data collection and reporting
- Support to ensure that MERL-specific elements of local partner capacity strengthening plans are successfully implemented
- Report results of MERL activities by providing written documentation about progress toward achieving indicators/targets, as appropriate.
- Support leadership at project location level on MERL to ensure the program technical integrity and achievement of program goal and corresponding objectives and targets
- Ensure high-quality implementation, in close collaboration with the field team and the M&E coordinator, and consistency in protocols, information and reporting systems
- Support efforts at project location to monitor and evaluate project interventions, document results and provide feedback to stakeholders to guide decision-making.
- Lead efforts to utilize training monitoring systems to track and monitor trainers and participants at training events to facilitate follow-up and recordkeeping
- Utilize the training data collected to inform strategic decision-making and project planning
- Support targeted evaluations and operations research, including design, data collection, management and analysis
- Ensure quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audit
- Support field level partners staff, and enumerators in designing, developing and deploying tools for community-based selection criteria for the selection of beneficiaries.
- Support MERL capacity-strengthening activities with project staff and implementing partners, including on subjects such as child safeguarding in data collection and ethical considerations of collecting data with children.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Bachelorsโ degree and minimum of 3 yearsโ work experience in monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization that has a robust MERL component.
- Prior experience with Plan International or related non-governmental organization is preferred.
- Experience in developing child-friendly MERL systems/tools or doing research with children is a strong asset.
Skills & Knowledge