Job Vacancies @ Concern Worldwide – Consortium Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Coordinator

The purpose of the role of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Coordinator is to provide coverage during the leave of the current Consortium Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Coordinator to provide technical support to the FCDO SLiSL-3 consortium, ensure effective monitoring & evaluation systems are in place to ensure effective programme implementation tracking and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and amend the detailed M&E plan for the 5 year programme.
• Manage field-level data collection activities in line with M&E plan for the consortium
• Assist in management of the implementation of M&E activity plans in coordination with consortium staff across all SLiSL-3 districts
• Support consortium partner collection of activity- and output-level monitoring data during activity implementation in line with project and programme M&E plans
• Keep the consortium dashboard up to date, including populating the Output and Outcome Monitoring Tabs on a regular basis for all implementing parteners across the 6 districts of SLiSL-3.
• Contribute to the development and implementation training for partner staff including; ethics and safety, sampling and respondent selection, device use, as well as survey contents.
• Assist in the active management relationship between CCU and consortium partner M&E team to ensure the relationship is supportive, coordinated, and that the M&E system is meeting the needs in terms of enabling them to apply adaptive results-based management practices
• Field manage Concern and partner consortium staff in conducting routine data collection, baseline, midterm, and endline surveys
• Lead on the analysis and use of consortium M&E data, including for donor reporting.
• Digital Data Gathering

Accountability and Learning 

• Analyse M&E data and summarising it into accessible, understandable, useful information for programme teams to use for decision-making and applying adaptive and results-based project and programme management
• Identify and manage effective and efficient information sharing mechanisms that are useful and supportive for the consortium
• Complete Review Snapshots to summarize discussions and application of adaptive and results -based management after every Progress Review and Results -Based Review for the consortium.
• Support consortium director to promote documentation and sharing of programme impact and learning
• Actively promote sharing of learnings from baselines, end -lines, reviews and evaluations internally and externally.
• Ensure accountability and learning through planning and facilitating periodic progress reviews (at the activity and output levels) and results-based reviews (at the outcome level) for the consortium.
• Complete all new survey and tool requests for the consortium
• Liaise with PDQ coordinator, Country IT and the Dublin IT Support Officeron all issues related to device management.

Capacity Building 

• Work with Consortium Director to support field staff and partners to apply lessons learnt, follow up on progress through monitoring and provide on-going support
• Ensure that knowledge of approaches filters down to field staff and partners

Concern Code of Conduct (CoC) & Associated Policies

• Fully adhere to and actively promote Concern’s CoC & Associated Policies.
• Ensure direct line reports and all finance staff understand and adhere to the Concern CoC & Associated Policies.
• Ensure all finance staff understand the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) and Concern’s commitments.

Confidentiality

• Ensure the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever acquired in the course of duty, relating to the practices and business of Concern Worldwide, to any other person or organization without authority, except in normal execution of the above duties.
• Ensure strict guardianship and security of financial data and documents at all times, including secure storage, accurate & complete filing, proper archiving and limiting access to the finance office to authorised personnel only.

Education    

University Degree in relevant field (related to M&E, development, research, data analytics, etc.)

Experience Required:

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in M&E/MEAL (positions where M&E/MEAL is the primary area of responsibility)
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience at a management level or an advisory position
• Experience of remote managing and capacity development of staff
• Experience of Working in a Consortium setting
• Clear understanding and vision for using data and information to support programme teams in applying adaptive and results based programme management in line with the concepts of Concern’s approach to Programme Quality
• Clear understanding and experience in managing and directly implementing primary quantitative data collection (surveys, etc.)
• Clear understanding and experience in managing and directly implementing primary qualitative data collection (key informant interviews, focus group discussion, participatory qualitative methods, etc.)
• Demonstrated capacity in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and interpretation (Experience in the use of statistical analysis software such as SPSS, Stata, R, etc.; experience using a CAQDA platform)
• Clear understanding and experience in managing quality assurance in data collection and performing quality checks on data
• Experience in programme roles or grants management is not a suitable substitute for direct M&E/MEAL experience at this level

Preferred Qualities

• Experience working on a consortium project.
• Experience working in a health sector programme setting.
• Budget management.