Monitoring Officer

Job Description

Title: Monitoring Officer

Company Name: Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK)

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• 3 to 4 years

• Bachelor/Honors
• Masters

• Bachelor/Master’s degree preferably in Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Gender Studies, or a related field. Relevant professional experience may substitute for formal education where appropriate.

• 3 to 4 years

Minimum Required: Experience:

• Minimum 3–4 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, research, or project management (experience in gender equality, WROs, human rights, or community-based programs preferred).
• Demonstrated experience in data collection (qualitative and/or quantitative) at community level.
• Familiarity with participatory and inclusive monitoring approaches; willingness to learn feminist MEAL methodologies.
• Experience using digital data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, Google Forms, etc.) or strong willingness to learn.
• Basic data analysis skills (Excel or similar tools) and experienced to develop donor reports preferably in English.
• Experience facilitating community consultations, reflection sessions, or learning meetings is an asset.
• Understanding of gender equality, safeguarding, and Do No Harm principles.
• Strong coordination, communication, and documentation skills in Bangla; working knowledge of English preferred.

Physical/Mental Demands:

• Physical and mental demands of this role include those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, as outlined above. 
• Operating a computer and other office equipment. 
• Thinking, learning, and concentrating effectively and frequently communicating with other people, both within MJF and outside from MJF; 
• Frequent local travel, conducting field visits to community, government and partner offices. 
• Ability to handle the stress associated with meeting frequent, multiple, and tight deadlines.
• Flexible to work with the diverse populations targeted by the RWVl-B project

Project: Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Bangladesh

Reports to: Program Manager

Position Level: Mid-Level

Project Brief:

The Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) project aims to improve women's and girls' access to human rights in all their diversity and to advance gender equality in Bangladesh, led by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) and funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC). This project will focus on empowering diverse voices and strengthening collective actions to advance women’s human rights by addressing gender-based violence (GBV), sexual and reproductive health & rights (SRHR), inclusive economic empowerment (iEE), and the safety and security of project participants.

As an implementing partner of MJF, Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK) will carry out the project activities at the grassroots level in the Dhaka Sadar and Khulna Sadar upazilas within the Dhaka and Khulna district. This project will focus on issues categorized across various pillars. Pillar 1: Will support organizational capacity and sustainability in areas such as (i) governance improvement; (ii) financial system development; and (iii) policy articulation. Pillar 2: Will contribute to gender equality programming and advocacy at the grassroots level through (i) supporting agency creation, (ii) promoting women’s leadership, (iii) providing knowledge and skill building, to challenge social norms and practices that oppose women’s rights. (iv) implementing social campaigns and mass awareness events, and (v) facilitating inclusive economic empowerment and entrepreneurship interventions. Pillar 3: Will focus on movement strengthening through (i) local network and alliance creation for collective advocacy, (ii) collective movement building.

Job Profile:

This position needs to be worked under the supervision of the Project Manager and dotted supervision under the MJF M&E and KM Manager. S/he will closely work and support the project implementation team for implementing the Renewed Women’s Voice and Leadership (RWVL) Bangladesh interventions at grassroot level. Major task of this position will be determining the Performance Measurement Framework align with MJF, maintaining the project MIS system, capacitate field team about the MEAL, assist data collection, data management, conduct process monitoring, and reporting for respective organizations. Data management should be one of the key roles of this position where this position should be responsible for ensure the data collection by the field team, clean the data, entry in system/write the narratives, document data in MIS and office files, verify the data and support Project Manager to submit report within in the timeline. On the other hand, this position should organize monthly reflection sessions, document the learning and share insights from data and field visit reflections to ensure data driven decisions from the management and adaptive management.

coordination, monitoring, and reporting.

Working Conditions:

The position is based in Dhaka, but frequent field visits to the working areas are required, with at least 30% of the time spent in the field.

Key Responsibilities & Roles:

Feminist MEAL System Design & Planning

• Develop Performance Measurement Framework as per the organization specific result framework and align with the MJF Theory of Change
• Closely work with MJF M&E and KM Manager and contribute to develop and pilot process monitoring tools align with organization specific immediate outcome and output
• Closely work with MJF M&E and KM Manager and contribute to develop and pilot RWVL-B Project’s MIS system to ensure safe inclusive, and accessible data collection systems (gender identity, disability, structural exclusion disaggregation

Monitoring & Data Management

• Support both qualitative and quantitative data collection as per the indicator and frequency set in the PMF for generating the reports
• Ensure data quality assurance, validation, and triangulation.
• With close guidance from MJF M&E and KM Manager, facilitate partner-led data analysis workshops, reflection and learning sessions to generate data driven decisions and adaptive management.
• Maintain digital MIS and documentation of auditable data trails develop by RWVL-B.
• Build up capacity for the staff of the respective organizations about the MEAL system of RWVL-B
• Attend community sessions/events, conduct reflections with participants and stakeholders with a structured process monitoring tools to validate quality of the project implementations.

Evaluation & Outcome Harvesting

• Work closely with MJF M&E and KM Manager and contribute to implement baseline, midline, and end-line feminist evaluations for respective organization.
• Apply outcome harvesting to capture advocacy and power-shift results.
• Use thematic qualitative analysis aligned with log-frame and ToC pathways.

Accountability, Learning & Knowledge Management

• Facilitate knowledge management systems for monthly learning uploads as guided my MJF.
• Organize reflection workshops and feminist learning events and document lessons, good practices, and adaptive decisions.
• Facilitate feminist community feedback mechanisms (digital, hotline, consultations) and share feedback from the communities in accessible formats.
• Feed learning and data into evidence-based advocacy, campaign, and alliance strategies.

Reporting & Donor Compliance

• Finalize monthly data by working closely with field staffs, PM and MJF M&E and KM Manager
• Work closely with MJF M&E and KM Manager and PM to prepare quarterly, semi-annual, and annual performance reports.
• Integrate qualitative stories of change with quantitative data.
• Support co-authoring briefs with WROs and gender-diverse groups.
• Ensure alignment with GAC feminist reporting principles.