Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer - Mosul
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Job Description
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.
BACKGROUND
The IRC established programs in Iraq in 2003 to address the overwhelming needs of displaced people in Iraq and the neighboring countries. Since re-establishing its presence in Iraq in November 2007, the IRC has been assisting thousands of internally displaced families in the northern, central and southern governorates in the sectors of protection, gender-based violence (GBV), education, economic recovery, child Protection and emergency humanitarian assistance. Working in coordination with the humanitarian community in Iraq, the IRC's assistance and emergency programs address the needs of war-affected Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) and Syrian refugees from several operational bases in the country and include both camp-based and urban-based assistance. IRC operates throughout Iraq, with the main office in Erbil and field offices in, Baghdad, SAD, Anbar, and Mosul.
Job Overview/Summary: The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning officer is responsible for managing operations of the MEAL system in Mosul to support programme management and accountability functions. He/she contributes toward the relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency of IRC. In addition to programme data management for quality purposes.
Major Responsibilities:
Design and Planning:
1. Manage the implementation of project specific MEAL plans in alignment with the donor and the IRC MEAL standards.
2. Participate in project design, revise the project objective hierarchy and logical framework matrix (activities, processes, inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts)
3. Manage the identification and design of appropriate tools, formats, and procedures of operational monitoring at each level of the objective hierarchy, including Post Distribution Monitoring, Onsite Monitoring Surveys, Checklists, etc.
4. Support the project teams and partners in creating monitoring and data capturing tools.
5. Support the creation of MEAL plans and ensure that IRC core indicators are reflected.
6. Design and plan data collection exercises including but not limited to hiring enumerators, prepare the movement plans, identifying methodologies, ensure the readiness of data collection tools, and preparation of analysis and reporting plans.
7. Support local partners plan their MEAL exercises.
MEL Implementation
8. Ensure that routine data is regularly entered as per dataflow and identify and address any issues with timeliness
and regularity of data entry.
9. Conduct regular data quality checks and data audits to ensure the consistency, correctness, and completeness of the reported data.
10. Work closely with the project team to fill the indicator tracking tables on monthly basis.
11. Upload project specific Monitoring details on the proper information management software.
12. Conduct quantitative data analysis and interpretation exercises complemented by qualitative data and success stories.
13. Lead discussions with the program team and partners to agree on a detailed action plan following the monitoring findings and recommendations.
14. Assist in the implementation of evaluations and needs assessment surveys and provide direct support for the exercises.
15. Ensure that project level means of verification are available and organized at project sites.
16. Support the clients Responsiveness and accountability (CRA) team to explain the IRC CRA standards for the project team and clients in the field when CRA team are present.
Evaluations and Learning:
17. Provide support to external consultants and individuals sub-contracted to implement special surveys or studies required for evaluating project effects and impacts
18. Facilitate analysis sessions with project staff to reflect on findings and agree on programmatic action.
19. Facilitate and support learning events/after action reviews at the field level with the relevant IRC and partners staff and draw the necessary recommendations accordingly.
20. Represent the MEL with TPM teams and to provide the project specific information from the field level.
Capacity Building
21. Assist in organizing trainings on MEAL principles for capacity development and awareness among relevant IRC and partner’s staff.
22. Conduct coaching/On the job trainings on MEAL frameworks, data collection methodologies, data analysis, MEL and reporting for both IRC and relevant partner’s staff.
23. Conduct joint monitoring activities with the relevant local partners staff to ensure aligned methodological data collection approaches.
Information Management Contribution:
24. Work closely with the Information Management team to Develop, establish, maintain, and continuously improves information management processes that support the achievement of MEL processes at the field level.
25. Keep proper archiving for MEAL records including reports, learnings, raw data, and ensuring documents protection and authorization permissions.
26. Oversees portfolios of projects and captures all programmatic information related to IRC including data from various data collection tools, assessments, and evaluations with the collaboration of the wider M&E team.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Field Manager Position directly supervises: 2 MEAL Enumerators
Indirect Reporting: MEAL Coordinator Other Internal and/or external contacts:
Internal: IRC Staff
External: IRC Local Partners, other stakeholders
Qualifications
1. A bachelor’s degree preferred in social sciences, nutrition, statistics, or development studies
2. At least two years of relevant work experience.
3. Experience in design and implementation of MEAL systems; including qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessment and monitoring.
4. Experience in participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation, training and facilitation, data processing or analysis
5. SPSS, CsPro, and Excel knowledge; and information dissemination software
6. Knowledge of mobile data collection platforms and database and preferred knowledge in GIS.
7. Very English report writing and information dissemination skills
8. Very Good knowledge of and experience with humanitarian guidelines and principles
9. Very Good contextual knowledge of local community and social/cultural constraints, realities and organizational relationships for effective project design and implementation.
10. Communicates with integrity to different stakeholders- good interpersonal skills with people across a wide social range including project beneficiaries/community members, other IRC staff/managers, government officials etc
11. Good human resources management skills
12. Ability to travel/be based to/in project sites as needed.
Ability:
1. Ability to organize and facilitate capacity building/ enhancement for staff
2. Ability to verify data quality
3. Ability to speak and write very good English and Arabic/Kurdish
4. Inspires trust within/outside of the organization
5. Develops high levels of credibility and accountability
6. Stays open to internal feedback
7. Understands the application of policy and the impact of decisions
8. Agrees with IRC policies and core values,
9. Finds fulfilment in work through creativity, risk management initiative, innovation, and encourages the same in colleagues.
Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
Gender Equality IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including maternity leave, gender-sensitive security protocols, and other supportive benefits and allowances. Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement****: Per the Iraqi Ministry of Health COVID-19 guidelines, IRC requires candidates who are selected for positions to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter IRC premises. However, the exemption is only accepted per the Iraqi Health regulation and upon the provision of a negative PCR test.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity****: IRC is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of inclusivity. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal.
Equal Opportunity Employer****: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Notice to all Job Seekers
IRC implements an equal employment opportunity policy, and our recruitment process is based on merit.
Applicants and/or successful interview candidates (both internal and external) are not required to pay any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.
If anyone asks you for any financial or non-financial favors to help you secure a job at IRC, kindly report to iraq.hr@rescue.org****.
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