Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer at Options Consultancy Services Limited

Job Description

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Options Consultancy Services Limited is a consultancy organisation providing technical and management expertise in the health and social sectors to governments and international development partners to transform the health of women and children. We provide information, expertise and influence to governments, health workers, NGOs and businesses to catalyse change so that health services can be accessed by the people who need them most.

Responsibilities:

Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

Support the implementation of the programme’s MEL strategy and evaluation framework working closely with the MEL team Support the refinement of the programme’s Results framework, liaising closely with implementing partners to ensure alignment with expected results and support tracking of RF milestone achievement Support the development of an overall programme MEL workplan and routinely update it incorporating key partner MEL activities

Research, Evidence and Learning

Support the development of an adaptive programming mechanism to be instituted across the programme and support its adoption and use by partners Support the Head of MEL in instituting adaptive management tools and processes and integrating successful approaches as part of routine MEL practice Support the process of learning and evidence sharing to ensure partner programme interventions are informed by and reaching decisions based on existing evidence

 Knowledge management and Reporting

Support in collating programme quarterly and annual reports ensuring partner reports meet the set standards and output and outcome scoring templates for the annual review process capture impact of interventions. Support in the identification of data generated by the programme for inclusion in the data dashboard developed by the Data Hub.

Person specification: 

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management in a large scale, multi – country development programme Experience in programme performance measurement and developing monitoring, evaluation and learning monitoring plans Good understanding of programme and evaluation cycles, data analysis and presentation of results Experience using major evaluation methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and data collection and analysis methodologies Experience in MEL for gender and rights based programmes Experience working with consortiums Previous experience in MEL for programmes funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) Experience providing MEL training to field officers and sub grantees