Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist, PERI Programme
Job Description
Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Specialist, PERI Programme
Company Name: The Asia Foundation
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Dhaka
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Relevant degree in international development, public administration, public policy, or a related field.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
∎ Asia plays a crucial global role in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Would you be excited to employ your knowledge and skills to improve lives, expand opportunities, and help societies flourish across this dynamic region?
∎ You could have this opportunity at The Asia Foundation. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, we address critical issues affecting Asia in the 21st century: governance and law, economic development, women`s empowerment, environment, and regional cooperation. We work with innovative leaders and communities to build effective institutions and advance path-breaking reforms. Together with our partners, we are committed to Asia`s continued development as a peaceful, just, and thriving world region.
∎ The Asia Foundation (TAF) seeks an experienced MEL Specialist for its five-year Promoting Effective, Responsive and Inclusive Governance in Bangladesh (PERI) Programme funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The program will focus on more inclusive, peaceful politics and greater accountability of the state in Bangladesh.
∎ The successful candidate will be based in Dhaka and work closely with the PERI Team Leader to develop, coordinate, and strengthen the project`s overall MEL framework, including change pathways, tasks, activities, and systems to support an adaptive program. Experience in implementing complex and multifaceted projects is required, with knowledge of or experience in MEL activities, political economy analysis (PEA), adaptive management and iterative approaches, and codesign processes with multiple stakeholders.
∎ UNIT: The Asia Foundation, Bangladesh Office
∎ REPORTS TO : Team Leader, PERI Programme
∎ JOB LOCATION: The Asia Foundation`s office in Dhaka (with limited travel)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Assist effective program implementation by offering top-notch technical support and guidance in enhancing program monitoring and evaluation practices.
∎ Contribute to developing a comprehensive MEL plan with defined indicators and a reporting schedule aligned with program and donor requirements.
∎ Develop/review intervention's theories of change, log frames, indicators and targets, project implementation plan, monitoring and evaluation plans, data collection methodology, and relevant tools for monitoring and reporting program activities and results.
∎ Convene regular review and reflection sessions to refine the theory of change and assess intermediate progress throughout program implementation; update the MEL framework according to discussions, changes in context, and other observations about what is and is not working for the program.
∎ Documents change in context, process and outcome indicators, observations and learning systematically and in coordination with PERI's tools and processes.
∎ Collaborate closely with the project management team, consultants, and partners' staff involved in data collection, analysis, and monitoring, ensuring timely updates to the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) database.
∎ Build the MEL capacity of staff, partners, and other project stakeholders to develop and implement appropriate MEL frameworks and methodologies.
∎ Identify innovative approaches and effective practices within communities and support extracting valuable insights through thoroughly analyzing field contexts. Channel this information into the learning agenda to facilitate knowledge sharing.
∎ Develop and implement feedback systems at the community level that receive, handle, and address feedback in accordance with FCDO policies and procedures.
∎ Improve using MEL-generated and other evidence-based information to inform adaptive management.
∎ Facilitate the creation of MEL products that communicate findings to a broad audience; and
∎ Ensure compliance with FCDO processes and guidance.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in a MEL position on a program of similar magnitude, preferably in open governance, accountability, anticorruption, local governance, social accountability, and/or civil society strengthening.
∎ Experience working on FCDO and USAID-funded projects is strongly preferred.
∎ Solid understanding of South Asia's value systems, traditions, and social norms and practices, particularly Bangladesh, strongly preferred.
∎ Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; and Bangla
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 15 Jul 2023
Company Information:
∎ 2 Jul 2023
∎ The Asia Foundation
∎ Business : The Asia Foundation (TAF) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, just, and open Asia-Pacific region. The Foundation supports Asian initiatives to improve governance and law, economic development, women`s empowerment, the environment, and regional cooperation. Among its various development initiatives, TAF has been supporting the promotion of women`s rights and social justice within an Islamic Framework through imams and madrassah teachers in Bangladesh.
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 15th Jul 2023
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