MERL Officer (2)

Employment Opportunity - Contingent upon funding.

Pact Ethiopia is a field office of “Pact” an international non-governmental and non-profit making organization with its headquarters in Washington DC. Pact Ethiopia exists to build local capacity to enable systematic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy and enjoy the benefit nature provides. For efficient execution of its duties, Pact Ethiopia is looking for an enthusiastic, creative, energetic individual to fill the following position for its 5-year, USAID-funded program, Sustainable Peace Activity.

Overview:

The purpose of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (MER) Officer position is to assist the MER Manager in overall management and output of the MERL unit. S/he renders technical MER support to individual projects, platforms and assists in demonstrating progress against strategic objectives at the Country level. This support extends to a wide range of NGO and CSO partners. The post holder is also responsible for assisting the generation of regular and ad hoc reports for external purposes.

  RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS: 

Job Responsibility #1: Technical M&E Support

• Assists the development and/ or updating of monitoring and evaluation plans, guidelines, tools and systems for use by PACT and its partners.
• Supports the identification of higher-level indicators to assess progress and overall impact against Pact Ethiopia’s strategic plan.
• Assists the development of effective results frameworks and subsequent indicators at project and partner level(s).
• Supports project staff and partners to ensure effective systems are in place for process and impact monitoring (this includes baseline and evaluation requirements).
• Assists in designing baseline, mid term and final evaluation studies of different projects
• Assists in organizing periodic ongoing evaluation and progress monitoring events by involving partners
• Prepares the unit’s work plan by identifying support requirements of other units.
• In collaboration with different units, periodically monitors the quality of data collected and reports produced, and agree on actions required
• Undertakes compilation of data for analysis and reporting requirements 

Job Responsibility #2:  Coordination

• In collaboration with other project units, prepares quarterly plan for joint M&E field visits
• Participates in regular meetings of the unit
• Assists effective communication and coordination across the organisational structure and country programme, with a specific aim to strengthen links to finance, grants and programming (across the various strategic platforms)

Job Responsibility #3:  Reporting

• Assists the compilation and distribution of the Donor reports as per the set schedule
• Generates  quarterly, biannual and annual tabular reports for reporting purposes
• Assists the generation of data and compilation of quarterly reports for regular Donor reporting purposes
• Assists the production of quarterly and annual reports against the Government annual plans
• Facilitates compilation of regular monitoring reports prepared by different Projects  along with evaluation recommendations
• Provides data deemed important for concept paper or proposal development

Job responsibility #4:  Capacity Building

• Participates in the assessment of M&E related training requirements for capacity building purpose
• Participates in development of capacity of Program staff and partners on Participatory M&E and other related initiatives

Job Responsibility #5:  Information Management and Reporting

• Assists that the database of Pact Ethiopia is well designed, electronically maintained and made accessible to relevant staff.
• Updates Program database on a quarterly basis and ensures the backup filing is maintained

Job Responsibility #6:  Learning and networking:

• Attends relevant government and partners’ meetings to further develop collaboration and to obtain new methods and ideas in the area of responsibility
• Provides statistical information for users within and outside Pact
• Keeps up to date with developments in MERL, including best practice examples within the country and internationally, and ensure ongoing personal development and learning
• Ensures the communication of Participatory M&E concepts within the organization, with partners and other stakeholders

• Participates in the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practice

Job Responsibility #7: 

• Perform other duties as assigned by MERL Manager

REPORTS TO: Director of Analysis Research and learning

DUTY STATION: Addis Ababa with frequent field visit

Education/Training

Required:

• BA/MA degree in Economics, Statistics or other Social Sciences.

Experience:

• 5/3  years of relevant work experience in monitoring, evaluation and planning activity

Desired:

• NGO experience desired
• TEACH project implementation/ follow up experience desired

Technical And Other Skills

• Demonstrated effective organizing and planning skills;  
• Skills in developing MER, data collection tools, indicators and plans;
• Ability to analyze M&E technical issues, to write clear and concise reports and to make effective oral presentations;
• Computer literacy in basic database and statistical software and Microsoft applications;
• Proficiency in English;
• Effective interpersonal skills;

Contacts/Key Relationships:

• The incumbent is expected to collaborate with government counterparts, donors, partners and with Program and all Pact Staff.

Working Conditions And Level Of Travel Required

• This position is located in Addis Ababa and requires travel to partner operational areas.