Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Senior Advisor

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  • Added Date: Saturday, 21 September 2024
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The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Senior Advisor will provide technical guidance on all MEL aspects of a global health project. The MEL Senior Advisor leads the establishment of the project MEL plan and oversees the day-to-day MEL activities, developing and implementing policies and procedures, and ensuring quality delivery of service on MEL. They oversee technical staff members and work with sub-partners to ensure that the MEL plan and activities are in alignment with work plans and provide technical expertise to inform project implementation. They prepare project and donor reports and draft publications and external communications and lead the development and revision of best practice documents. They may be required to coordinate and work with a diverse group of organizations, such as Ministries of Health, international and national development partner organizations, and the donor to complete work.

Note: eastern time zone working hours are required for this position.

Accountabilities:

Project Design Implementation:

  • Leads design, development, planning and implementation of the project MEL strategy, including MEL framework and MEL plan.

  • Develops, operationalizes, implements and manages MEL and SI systems, tools, and procedures to collect, collate, analyze, interpret, and use data that demonstrate impact and program accountability and progress.

  • Tracks progress made against indicators and targets and towards results, outcomes, and impacts to ensure they are being consistently and systematically tracked and reported; support quarterly performance and semi-annual or annual reports.

  • Develops high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies to monitor project quality for performance and results.

  • Builds project and staff MEL and SI capacity, including strengthening, managing and operationalizing MEL systems, data quality assurance, data demand and use, facilitating learning and knowledge exchange, documenting best practices, and reporting.

  • Works closely with project sub-partners to ensure that activities align with project MEL systems and requirements; review sub-partner reporting to ensure data quality and integrity.

  • Leads project learning activities and data use initiatives; foster culture of learning and knowledge sharing.

  • Collaborates with teams to design and support learning activities, share MEL data, analysis and data use products, promote evidence-based feedback, adaptation and decision making

  • Collaborates and supports knowledge management and communication efforts, including development, dissemination and use of data and knowledge products, abstracts, articles, blogs, reports, tools and materials.

  • Oversees the publication and dissemination of information on successful and promising
    approaches, lessons learned, and other project results to ministry counterparts, program partners, and other key stakeholders.

  • Leads the creation of the technical portion of the project work plan and MEL plan, including data collection tools, within the given resource and financial constraints.

  • Coordinates with technical and programmatic staff members to ensure that activities are performed as per award requirements and consistent with FHI 360 policy.

  • Contributes to planning and making recommendations for project concept, operations, and / or implementation.

  • Influences design and scope of MEL initiatives and programs.

  • Develops strategies and tools for the design and implementation of specific technical components.

  • Ensures technical implementation is consistent with best practices in the industry and meet donor contractual obligations for moderately complex technical units of a functional domain, directing other professional staff members.

  • Collaborates with technical and programmatic staff members to ensure that activities are performed as per award requirements and consistent with policy.

  • Coordinates with employees and consultants, on-site and in the field for situations that are less routine and more unusual.

    Staff Leadership and Training:

    • Builds project and staff capacity to develop, manage, operationalize, and strengthen M&E systems, including data quality assurance, best practices documentation and reporting, learning facilitation, and data demand and use

    • May supervise team members, monitor performance, and lead professional development efforts.

    • Develops and implements training and competency systems.

    • Identifies strategies to address training gaps.

      Project/Program Reporting:

      • Reviews and prepares inputs for technical reports.

      • Reviews sub-partner reports and provides technical feedback.

      • Prepares and delivers presentations to sponsors on progress.

      • Contributes to the development of project work plans and coordinates with project leadership and partners on activities.

        Quality Assurance:

        • Ensures technical deliverables and implementation are consistent with best practices in the industry and meet donor contractual obligations for moderately complex technical units of a functional domain, directing other professional staff members.

        • Proactively identifies risks or challenges to technical deliverables and creates mitigation plan.

        • Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates the effectiveness of projects and makes recommendations for enhancements.

        • Ensures the quality of implemented technical activities and systems at all levels.

          Technical Requirements:

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