Background:
The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) funded Multi-Year Resilience Program (MYRP 2020-2023) aims to improve learning through equitable access, crisis-sensitive and quality education for 745,997 emergency-affected children (380,418 boys, 365,579 girls including children living with disabilities) in 44 prioritized Woredas in Ethiopia.
The MYRP, though Seed Funding from ECW, will initially focus interventions on addressing the critical educational needs of 60,487 out of school displaced children (30,717 boys, 29,770 girls) in 81 schools, 17 Woredas and 3 regions (Amhara, Oromiya and Somali).
Role/Purpose:
The job holder is responsible for providing oversight for the ECW MYRP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning functions and will work within the MYRP Program Coordination Unit (MYRP-PCU) and support the MYRP Steering Committee and the Grantees – UNICEF and Save the Children to design and lead a strong Education Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning system. The Monitoring and Evaluation system’s objective is to harmonize and align data and monitor interventions against the results framework to inform decision-making, accountability, reporting and learning in a timely and strategic manner.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist ensures that the ECW MYRP partners undertake routine continuous quality improvement and data quality assessment, have information briefs and regularly share program updates with stakeholders, and a mechanism for collecting, tracking and responding to feedback and complaints from program stakeholders.
As a member of the MYRP PCU, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be responsible for ensuring effective monitoring, evaluation and learning. He/she ensures that Working Group meetings take place with partners and provide targeted support and capacity building as required.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: The post holder will report to the Program Coordination Lead with a dotted line relation ship with the Grantees; Save the Children and UNICEF and the Ministry of Education led by MYRP Steering Committee but will report administratively to Save the Children.
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibilities: None
Dimension: The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be based in Addis Ababa and sits within the Federal Ministry of Education with frequent travel to the field in the areas of program intervention as well as non-intervention areas as required. Anticipate about 50% of the job to be travel away from duty station.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Program Support: MEAL
Partnerships:
Learning & Documentation:
Planning, Budgeting and Reporting:
Communication and Networking
BEHAVIORS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
Ambition:
Collaboration:
Creativity:
Integrity:
Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Qualification:
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
Additional job responsibilities
Equal Opportunities
Child Safeguarding:
Health and Safety