Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer

FHI 360

S/He will provide basic technical support and guidance to staff and partners in the country office, draft technical portions workplans and other technical materials based on the design and direction set by technical leadership and implement monitoring and evaluation initiatives. S/He will support training and capacity strengthening for monitoring and evaluation and support the smooth functioning of STRIDES monitoring and evaluation systems. He/she will create scientific or technical materials relevant to STRIDES and evaluates programmatic effectiveness and provide technical assessment and others reports. S/He will provide administrative support on core project operations (e.g., updating manuals, assisting with proposals, and budget tracking).

Technical Requirements:

• Assists in providing technical support in the development and dissemination of tools, materials, reports, papers, and intervention for projects.
• Provides quality control and quality assurance support.
• Conducts searches of published literature, mobile software sites, blogs, on evolving issues.
• Contribute to development and sharing of lessons, knowledge, innovations, and best practices.
• Provides support to work planning and workplan preparation and finalization.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Project Design Implementation:

• Works closely with assigned team to ensure activities are implemented according to standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Monitors and maintains protocols, instruments, data sets, manuals, training materials and reports.

Client/Funder Support:

• Participates in client / funder meetings.
• Prepares Requests for Proposals for technical, administrative, and other service needs.

Operations Management (Finance, HR, etc.):

• Responds to requests and inquiries from internal and external staff.
• Provides administrative and logistic support to technical team, training, events, meetings, and other activities.

Project Reporting:

• Supports preparation of quarterly and annual reports, and other documents.
• Writes and edits technical reports and documents.
• Gathers information, data and statistics needed to provide evidence to reports, presentations, papers, and other documentation produced.
• Assists with technical troubleshooting, guide data analysis and application of data.
• Participates in data review and support data use for decision making.
• Ensures the documentation and reporting of appropriate services rendered to clients is done in the relevant service registers.
• Assists with compiling technical content (e.g., reports, presentations, manuscripts).