Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Reporting (melr) Officer

Job Position: Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting (MELR) Officer.

Reporting to: The Project Coordinator.

Major Duties

• Lead the monitoring and evaluation activities of the project at the field level.
• Conduct project data collection, prepare monitoring and evaluation plans, compile data, and reports.
• Provide the project team with technical support on planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Prepare reports on the progress and performance of the project on a regular basis and as required.
• Implement annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly monitoring work plans for the project.
• Ensure that technical compliance of the project required by donors and government partners are fulfilled.
• Ensure that the project is implemented as per the intended target, approach, quality, and time frame.
• Provide the project team with training on monitoring in general and performance data collection and reporting in particular.
• Coordinate joint monitoring and evaluation activities of government stakeholders at regional, zonal, and Woreda levels.
• Document and share the processes and lessons of the project monitoring and evaluation.
• Ensure that safeguarding of children, the young, and vulnerable adults; gender; disability; and HIV/AIDS concerns are integrated into all project activities (planning and implementation) as well as in monitoring and evaluation functions.

Required Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Qualification

• M.A. Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Management, Statistics, Sociology, Economics, and other social sciences.

Experience

• Minimum of six years relevant experience working on similar or related projects.
• NGOs experience is an advantage.

Required Skills

Candidates should possess the following skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to mobilize and coordinate with diverse stakeholders and community groups at the grassroots level.
• Adequate knowledge of child protection and reproductive health issues, including relevant policies and frameworks.
• Good data collection design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting skills.
• Research, documentation, and report writing skills.
• Good command of English and Amharic languages, both spoken and written. Knowledge of Sidama language is an advantage.
• Motorbike riding license is also an advantage.

Job Details

Duty station: Hawassa City, with frequent travel to project Woredas.

Condition of employment: One-year contract with the possibility of extension based on performance and project continuity.

Salary: Negotiable.

No. required: 1 (one).

Skills Required:

• Economics / Statistics
• Social / Science / Project / Management / Development