Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer

The position contributes to GGGI’s mission by ensuring that the country offices of Uganda, Angola and Zambia deliver on their MEL commitments. To “deliver on GGGI’s MEL commitments,” tasks of the position will be highly technical, with an expectation to be responsible for related administrative and operational duties.

Engagement:

• Work closely and under the supervision of the Country Representative (CR) for Uganda, Angola and Zambia to define and deliver on GGGI’s MEL framework. This will entail providing at times taking the lead and at times providing to project teams and the CR to develop internal monthly reports, write donor reports, keep MEL systems up to date , participate in proposal writing, estimation of ex-ante impacts of interventions and support mid-term and ex-post evaluations.
• Liaise with project teams, implementing partners and donors to define and execute MEL requirements
• Collaborate with regional MEL advisors and the Impact and Evaluation Unit (IEU) in headquarters for alignment on operationalization of MEL rules, standards, and guidelines
• Coordinate with Regional MEL advisors and, as needed, the Strategy Unit on end-of-year corporate reporting
• Actively share knowledge, learnings, and best practices in GGGI’s MEL Community of Practice
• Provide necessary data to support Communications and Knowledge Sharing (COMKS) in developing content for communication products and initiatives
• Support training of project teams on MEL (processes, logframe construct, data collection, analysis, key learnings, etc.)
• Support GGGI at external engagements with government, industry, and resource partners as needed
• Draft monthly, quarterly, and/or annual internal corporate and external donor reporting
• Provide support to ensure data quality is used to estimate impacts and to develop internal and external reports in alignment with organizational standards.
• Maintain data sources and documentation in an organized manner
• Lead MEL training (processes, logframe construct, data collection, analysis, key learnings, etc.) to internal colleagues.
• Support country program teams in internal functions, such as corporate presentations and meetings

Technical responsibilities:

• Design logframes
• Design and lead the implementation of MEL plans
• Design, lead, and manage data collection, including field visits and safeguarding measures
• Design and implement monitoring tools
• Develop learning agendas and facilitate institutional learning activities
• Design and conduct MEL training
• Design and manage MIS, including data protection and privacy requirements
• Design, conduct, and manage complex data analysis
• Write progress and result reports, inclusive of data visualization
• Design, implement, and manage baseline assessments, including evaluations
• Support all country program and project evaluations
• Contribute to proposal development in designing and quality assuring logframes, articulating the results chain, calculating and overseeing the application of the Strategic Outcome multipliers, setting targets, and estimating MEL budgets so they enable appropriate measurements of the intended results

Managerial responsibilities:

• Provide primary technical supervision and guidance, as well as serve as the first backstop, to MEL assistants and/or associates in delivering MEL commitments of the country programs and their projects

Requirements:

• Even if you may not meet all of the following, we encourage you to apply if you feel that, from a holistic view, you are a good candidate for the position.

Qualifications:

• An advanced degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in economics, project management, public policy, Business administration, Economics, Environmental management/science, or a related discipline
• Preferred at least 6-8 years of work experience, with at least 5 years in MEL and a proven track record of executing the full MEL cycle (i.e., from design to tools creation, data collection, analysis, and reporting) in the field and international experience in developing context required
• Minimum 2 years of international experience (living and working outside of home country). Internships and volunteer work will not be considered
• Experience and knowledge in climate change or related field required
• Proficiency in English required; proficiency in Portuguese a strong asset
• Proven strong writing skills are required
• Technical proficiency in XLS form-building, MS Access/SQL, relational database, and/or PowerBI required; need to be able to create tools and outputs

Source: https://careers.gggi.org/vacancy/monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-mel-officer-578718.html