Company Name: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide technical support for the design and implementation of project design assessments, gender analysis, stakeholder analysis, and other pre-proposal data collection and analysis.
• During project design and proposal development, provide technical support to develop and review theories of change, results frameworks, ProFrames, MEAL plans, MEAL narratives, and MEAL budgets.
• Contribute to the writing of MEAL sections of proposals.
• Ensure that MEAL system design for all new projects is in compliance with donor MEAL requirements and CRS MEAL policies and procedures (MPP).
• Lead the appropriate application of CRS simple measurement of indicators for learning and evidence-based reporting (SMILER) approach in the design of MEAL systems for all new projects ensuring that all paper-based and digital data collection tools, reporting and visualization tools, data flow and communication & reporting maps, data management, and accountability and learning processes and tools are well designed.
• Monitoring:
• Ensure that project monitoring systems provide timely, high quality data that is consistently collected, analyzed and shared in a user-friendly format with project management, implementing partners and MEAL stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project/program managers to co-facilitate quarterly learning to action discussions that include reflection on project monitoring data to inform evidence-based decision making and action planning.
• Provide technical assistance to MEAL and project management staff to ensure the quality and integrity of all data gathered, including planning and organizing annual data quality assessments (MEAL procedure 2.4).
• Provide technical assistance to MEAL and project management staff to ensure that all monitoring data is recorded in relevant project databases and tracking tools in a timely and accurate manner.
• Assist program management and MEAL staff in the development of timely, high quality donor and project progress reports.
• Ensure accurate and comprehensive beneficiary data tracking across all projects that facilitate timely annual reporting of beneficiary and service delivery indicators data reporting to HQ.
• Evaluation:
• Provide technical leadership to ensure that baseline and evaluation events for all CRS supported projects comply with donor and CRS evaluation (MPP) requirements.
• In consultation with CRS sub-regional MEAL Manager, develop terms of reference (ToR) for all project baseline, midterm and end of project evaluation events that include technically and operationally appropriate evaluation methods that reflect agency and industry good practice.
• In consultation with CRS sub-regional MEAL Manager develop scopes of work (SoW) with the respective Program Managers, for hiring MEAL consultants.
• Co-facilitate participatory reflection events with project and partner staff to identify learning and recommendations as part of all baseline and evaluation events (MEAL procedure 3.7).
• Accountability & Learning:
• Support the identification and documentation of lessons learned, good practices and results from CRS Bangladesh supported programs. This includes the preparation of donor success stories and contributing to the development and implementation of the Country Program Learning Agenda.
• Provide support and technical assistance to partner MEAL staff to ensure that transparent high quality accountability mechanisms are in place for all programs, and that beneficiary feedback mechanism is installed and routinely captured and responded to by programming teams.
• Proactively participates in sub-regional and regional MEAL processes, including Accountability and Learning, through a community of practice approach, including sharing and application of good practices in the sub-region.
• Support programming staff to introduce participatory community level monitoring & evaluation systems and tools.

Educational Qualification:

• Masters Degree in Economics / Development or Social Studies / Statistics, or related field & experience

Work Experience:

• 3 to 5 year(s)

Others Requirements:

• Excellent written and oral English and local language
• Demonstrated experience in writing proposals and reports in English
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to detect and report inconsistencies
• Excellent data management (collection, entry, analysis and visualization) skills in Microsoft Excel, Access, or similar platforms. Familiarity with analysis software such as SPSS, STATA, EpiInfo, etc. is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience developing qualitative and quantitative tools and the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Experience with capacity strengthening and partnership building, with the capacity to empower staff through opportunities for growth, development and delegation of appropriate authority and responsibility
• Excellent planning and organization skills and experience with information management systems
• Supervisory experience and management and team building skills, especially in a multicultural setting
• Preference for ICT4MEAL experience
• Personal Skills and Requirements:
• Ability to provide opportunities for continuous learning, motivate individual/team/department performance
• Willingness to spend 40% of time traveling in the field

Others Benefit:

As per company policy

 

Source: Bdjobs