Senior MEL Officer - USAID's YES Activity program

Job Description

Title: Senior MEL Officer - USAID's YES Activity program

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Social Work/ Science/ Statistics/ Sociology.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Cox`s Bazaar, Bangladesh
∎ Report To: PM/DPM - USAID`s YES Activity program.
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to January 05, 2023 (Subject to satisfactory Annual Performance Appraisal)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Work with the team (02-06 MEL Officers) to refine the integrated MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) Plan, CLA (Collaborating, Learning and Adapting) and Data Collection Tools for measurement against the project indicators and targets and identifying lessons learnt.
∎ MEL system Survey designing, analysis, interpretation and tracking OVIs (Objectively Verified Indicators) and feeding back to program design.
∎ Developing CFM (Complaint Feedback Mechanism) tools and systems.
∎ Ensure consistency in MEL & CLA system and tools to ensure donors' compliances.
∎ Build capacity of project staff in the use and content of the Monitoring and Evaluation tools.
∎ Help to plan, operationalize, and implement the project MEL system in collaboration with the MEL Lead, Project Manager, Project teams, partners and the MEL team.
∎ Mentor and oversee field team to increase their skill on MEL issues.
∎ Oversee data collection process, cleaning, capture training of data enumerators and regular support the data enumerators and data clerk.
∎ Ensure flow of quality information for an analytical report preparation.
∎ Update MEL Lead on recent field activities and convey new message other team members.
∎ Track project data such as numbers of beneficiaries, through ongoing data tables shared with technical team on a monthly basis.
∎ Support MEL Lead in data analysis, presentation preparation and updating MEL Plan.
∎ Assist in Survey and study designing and work closely with MEL Lead to ensure the high level quality through entire process.
∎ Assist in the development and revision of annual work plan, budgeting and strategies for the project.
∎ Plan, support and execute the project learning document preparation and present where requires.
∎ Support MEL Lead in different activities with multi project support approach.
∎ Frequent field visit to interact with the beneficiaries', local service provider, mechanics, NGO staff, Government and Private Sector field staff, civil society to verify the monitoring data and get the first hand positive views and facts of the data.
∎ Assisting technical partners with thematic conceptualization on MEL & CLA to develop ICT tools.
∎ Any other relevant assignment by line manager.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 years of experience - preferable at least 2 years in Humanitarian and Development Sectors with INGOs, preferably in USAID funded projects focusing MEL & CLA activity.
∎ Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office Package, SPPS and Statistical tools/apps.
∎ Basic knowledge of MEL system Survey designing, analysis, interpretation and tracking OVIs (Objectively Verified Indicators) and feeding back to program design.
∎ Level of English language required: Communicate effectively with colleagues and external contacts on routine work-related matters.
∎ The selected candidate must exhibit the following competencies: Strategic Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Communication and Team Work.

Application Deadline: February 20, 2020

Company Information:
∎ Relief International
∎ Business : Relief International, hedquatered in USA, is a leading international non government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact.

Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Relief International has been working in Bangladesh since 2004. The Bangladesh portfolio of Relief International has strong focus on emergency response, economic opportunity and livelihoods rebuilding, traficking in persons, sustainable tourism, human rights and protection, refugee crisis response and public health. RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar. RI currently employs over 1000 local and international staffs in Bangladesh.

Relief International is currently implementing large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, UNICEF, USAID/OFDA, EU ECHO.
For more information on Relief International: www.ri.org

Category: NGO/Development

Read Before Apply: Applications will be reviewed as they are submitted, so candidates are encouraged to apply early. A decision may be finalized before the deadline.