M&E Officer - FIVDB Transforming Lives Through Nutrition Project

Job Description

Title: M&E Officer - FIVDB Transforming Lives Through Nutrition Project

Company Name: Friends in Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB)

Vacancy: 1

Age: At least 28 years

Job Location: Sunamganj

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Bachelor/Honors
• Masters

• At least 5 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

• Age At least 28 years

• Minimum 5–7 years of progressive experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) functions, preferably in WASH programs in development and/or humanitarian settings, including remote or hard-to-reach areas such as the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
• Proven experience in designing and implementing MEAL systems, frameworks, and tools for WASH or community development projects.
• Demonstrated ability to collect, verify, analyze, and report both quantitative and qualitative data from field-level assessments, surveys, and community consultations.
• Experience in facilitating learning, reflection, and knowledge-sharing processes, including documentation of best practices and lessons learned.
• Strong capacity to develop monitoring plans, reporting templates, and dashboards to track project performance, outputs, and outcomes.
• Experience supporting accountability mechanisms, including community feedback and grievance handling systems.
• Proven ability to provide guidance and capacity building to project staff, implementing partners, and community-based structures on MEAL approaches.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with government departments and technical partners to support monitoring, joint assessments, and oversight of WASH interventions.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and undertake frequent field visits in remote and challenging environments.
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and negotiation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with communities, local leaders, government stakeholders, and partner organizations.
• Excellent communication skills in Bangla and English, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and data management/visualization software (e.g., KoboToolbox, DHIS2, or similar platforms).

Key Competencies:

• Accuracy
• Analytical thinking
• Delivering results
• Problem solving and decision making
• Innovating and adapting; Impending thinking
• Inclusive
• Empowering

Job Context:

Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is implementing Transforming Lives Through Nutrition project with support from Helen Keller Intl. The goal of the Transforming Lives Through Nutrition initiative is to improve maternal and child health, through the delivery of proven nutrition interventions and to strengthen health and food systems at scale by putting women and children at the center. To achieve this objective, the project currently operates across 9 unions of Sunamganj Sadar, 13 unions of Chhatak, and 8 unions of Jagannathpur Upazila under Sunamganj District, as well as the Beguntila and Sattola slums in Dhaka North City Corporation. The current duration of the project is up to June 30, 2027, and the job is contractual for the project period.

Job Summary:

The Monitoring and Evaluation officer is responsible for delivering and management of technical expertise, ensuring high quality and timely inputs, and for ensuring the standard of project activities and its strategic vision for attaining project objectives and goals result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost-effective and timely manner. S/he will be responsible for leading the activities of M&E through planning, implementing, and managing the delivery of policies, reports, knowledge of services, and other results approved in the project document or periodical/annual work plans. The M&E officer will be involved in and provide support to capacity-building and training activities on monitoring, evaluation, documentation, and lesson-learning topics.

Major Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Develop and implement M&E plans, tools, and frameworks aligned with project goals and donor requirements.

• Ensure timely and accurate data collection, entry, analysis, and reporting from field level.

• Conduct regular monitoring visits to the Project’s assigned territories to verify activity implementation and data accuracy.

• Track project indicators against targets and provide regular updates on progress.

• Support baseline, midline, end line surveys, and other assessments or evaluations.

• Provide training and ongoing support to field staff and CNVs on M&E tools and data quality.

• Ensure proper documentation and filing (soft and hard copies) of data and evidence.

• Maintain and manage the project database or MIS system and ensure its regular updating.

• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data and produce summary reports, dashboards, and presentations.

• Facilitate learning sessions, after-action reviews, and reflection meetings to promote data use.

• Identify challenges, lessons learned, and best practices, and share them with the project team.

• Ensure data protection, confidentiality, and ethical standards during data handling.

• Contribute to donor reports, quarterly/annual reviews, and success story documentation.

• Support project coordinator with data analysis and the production of high-quality, evidence based, donor-compliant reports.

• Work with program coordination and contribute to the support and training to apply lessons learned, case studies and follow up on progress through monitoring and providing on-going support.

• Contribute to the review and development of global and sectoral monitoring and evaluation plans and strategies, ensuring crosscutting issues are well integrated.

• Provide training and technical support to project staff on participatory and qualitative monitoring approaches, enhancing their capacity to design and implement realistic monitoring plans that capture both quantitative and qualitative data for tracking progress against project targets.

• Assess individual protection issues captured or identified during daily activities and make appropriate referrals or best practices.

• Ensure proper documentation and secure storage of any protection data collected (hard and soft copies) Complete daily reporting on findings.

• Conduct / perform any other responsibilities as & when required for the greater interest of the Program.

• Weekly 2 holidays

• As per the project policy of FIVDB and the budgeted provision of this project.

• Salary and other admissible benefits (if any) are inclusive of all taxes as imposed by the government of Bangladesh. Taxes will be deducted at sources as per government rules.