Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer- national position
Trócaire, Sierra Leone
Job Description
Trócaire works in partnership with local and church organisations, supporting communities in over 17 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to bring about lasting change. Trócaire envisages a just and peaceful world where people’s dignity is ensured and rights are respected; basic needs are met and resources are shared equitably; people have control over their own lives; and those in power act for the common good.
In Sierra Leone, Trócaire delivers integrated programmes that promote women’s economic, social and political empowerment in partnership with 16 local civil society organisations. Core to Trócaire’s partnership approach in Sierra Leone are civil society strengthening and organisational development.
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Officer role is a replacement role on the Trócaire Sierra Leone team. The MEAL Officer will be responsible for ensuring a systematic approach to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in the Country Programme and will lead the implementation of the country programme Mamp;E system, track outputs and outcomes throughout the project lifespan and manage data effectively, thus contributing to quality reporting, continuous learning, programme adaption, innovation and increased visibility of the impact of Trócaire’s work. The MEAL officer will work closely with partners on improving their internal Mamp;E systems, providing coaching and accompaniment to partner staff in MEAL capacities, skills and tasks. The MEAL Officer will support the country office to increase accountability to project participants, partners, donors and other stakeholders, guided by Trócaire’s Accountability amp; Programme Quality Framework (APQF), and contribution to embedding the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) benchmarks in the country programme.
Key Duties amp; Responsibilities
Technical support
- Provide technical support to the programme team to implement and update the integrated Programme/Projects MEL plans and to design and implement Results Frameworks for new projects that contribute to a strong project result-oriented management
- Provide training and technical advice on monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning to programme staff, including data collection, analysis and interpretation including qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
- Provide technical support on the design, updating and reporting on Results Framework for Programmes and Projects especially Irish Aid RFs.
- Provide technical support to the Programme Team on measuring reach including the annual collection and reporting of reach at country level.
- In collaboration with Programme Officers (POs), lead in conducting timely monitoring and learning activities, including oversight and quality assurance of field data collection, data management and analysis that will contribute to quality reporting increased accountability, visibility of programme impact and continual programme improvement.
- Advise and support POs to champion the importance of gender sensitive data collection and analysis, including the use of practical indicators and monitoring tools and processes (both qualitative and quantitative) to monitor work on Women’s Empowerment and incorporate learning from same into programmes.
- Advise on the use of Trócaire’s global common indicators, tools and methodologies in programmes
- Lead the development, design and management of programme or project evaluations, baselines or research.
- Support CMT to implement the country’s programme accountability framework, including feedback and complaints mechanisms, to ensure the sharing of monitoring information with programme participants and other stakeholders.
- Support the programme team to use Mamp;E learnings to inform and adapt programme implementation.
- Support CMT to implement key Accountability amp; Programme Quality Framework (APQF) activities and achieve the CHS benchmarks/ as outlined in the Trócaire Country Programme Strategy.
- Assist in the development of donor reports in close coordination with colleagues and partners.
- Support the programme team and partners in strategic targeting of programme participants in line with organisational standards.
Strengthening MEAL related partner capacity
- Develop and implement a partner Mamp;E capacity development plan, generating training materials and resources where needed.
- Work with POs to support partner use of results based management and engagement with programme learning and review processes.
- Through training and close accompaniment, support partner staff to develop skills and competencies to gather, manage and analyse quality gender-sensitive data.
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