AMAL Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator Iraq - Nineveh/Anbar/Kirkuk
Oversee M&E systems and support data-driven decision-making
Overview
Oversee M&E systems and support data-driven decision-making
You have:
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation in humanitarian settings.
- Proficient in data analysis and management systems.
- Experience in capacity building and training staff.
- Knowledge of community accountability mechanisms and approaches.
- Understanding of program design and proposal development.
Contract
This is a Professional contract, Grade 7 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 7 (NRC) contracts.
Generic responsibilities
- Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
- Develop, support and maintain accountable and useful M&E and Accountability systems.
- Facilitate data analysis that supports decision making, learning, and accountability.
- Capture and dissemination of lessons learned from monitoring data, grant closure reviews, Country Office (CO) evaluations, program studies, and NRC annual learning review (global).
- Support M&E planning and activities, and support M&E capacity building.
- Support external exercises i.e. evaluations, assuring the quality of the process in close coordination with the Core Competencies Advisors.
Specific responsibilities
- Support the process to establish AMAL project M&E and accountability (Community Accountability Response Mechanism - CARM) systems.
- Support and/or participate in the development of guidance and frameworks for CO procedures, policies and processes that assist in institutionalizing and supporting M&E in the country mission.
- Participate in program design and proposal discussions, including support on theory of change development, log frame design, and budgeting for M&E.
- Participate in Country Strategy to ensure M&E remains a high priority in the country program.
- Provide leadership, support to project managers in planning and standardizing M&E across the project.
- Support project managers in developing data collection methodology and tools, and systems for on-going data analysis.
- Support and contribute to the development of a data management system for programme and M&E data.
- Ensure that monitoring data are fed into management decisions and used in programme management.
- Capacity building and training of programme and M&E field based staff on M&E technical and conceptual areas.
- Support internal improvement processes (M&E matrixes, Macro Log Frames etc.) according to need.
- Encourage and support the absorption of lessons and recommendations at area office level, emerging from various AO (grant reviews, after action reviews, grant closures) and CO events (evaluations, assessments, technical visits, learning reviews)
- Facilitate data analysis and improving programme staff data literacy (and usage of institutional platform geared toward this) that supports strategic decision-making, learning, and accountability.
- Encourage community meetings/orientations at the project start-up.
- Support M&E teams and program managers/coordinators to ensure that CARM is in place for each project, well understood by the team members/partners, and communicated to the beneficiaries.
- Manage CARM, categorization, sharing with relevant stakeholders, closure, and reporting.
Contract Duration: 1 year Duty Station: Kirkuk, Erbil or Nineveh - Iraq
Travel required up to 60% Health Insurance is provided Salary: G7/S1, According to NRC’s Iraq salary scale and terms and conditions. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply NRC is an equal opportunity employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability. For more information please read the Job Description
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a time when you improved a monitoring and evaluation process? | The interviewer wants to understand your capacity to enhance M&E systems. | Provide a specific example detailing your role and the impact of your improvements. |
| How do you approach capacity building for staff in M&E methodologies? | This question assesses your training and mentorship abilities within M&E. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to ensure community engagement in M&E activities? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |