Location: Biratnagar, Koshi Province

Reports to: Senior Manager Quality Assurance and Knowledge Management.

Time: 100% (8 hours a day and 5 days a week).

Duration: One year with the possibility of extension.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

The MRM Manager’s major tasks include:

• Manage the MRM officers, leading and overseeing day-to-day MRM activities across the programme.
• In collaboration with the team leader and senior management team, develop and ensure implementation of mechanisms and tools that optimise the use of evidence for adaptation at the strategic level. Ensure robust evidence generation and use of evidence through a well-functioning MRM system.
• Analyse and use results to drive the programme’s understanding of what works, what does not, why and how, under which circumstances, and support adaptation.
• Participate in sector meetings, facilitate periodic MRM meetings, assist sector teams in interpreting the findings, and ensure that the findings are used to refine, improve, and maximise the impact of NAMDP interventions. Develop agenda and facilitate strategic reviews (including discussions with SDC) where evidence is assessed to refine interventions timely.
• Guide and review tools developed by MRM officers for field research, including case studies and impact assessments aimed at tracking the programme’s progress and impact.
• Aggregate impact results at sector and programme level, gender and DAG disaggregated.
• Develop the MRM manual and ensure programme implementation complies with the MRM system.
• Guide and review the development and formulation of case studies, special studies impact assessments tools and knowledge sharing/capitalisation documents, developed by the MRM officers.
• Process/document lessons learned and disseminate them through appropriate channels.
• Contribute to finalising the Yearly Plan of Operations (YPOs) and (semi-)annual progress reports.
• Review and monitor the annual MRM budget and ensure appropriate spending.
• Ensure the quality of work of her/his team. Ensure relevant activities progress according to annual work plans and timeframes.
• Liaise with external evaluators and impact assessments teams as and when necessary.
• Comply with the Project Manual of NAMDP and other relevant requirements of Swisscontact and SDC.

Key Competencies:

• Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience in Monitoring, Results Measurement and Learning.
• Master’s degree in relevant discipline or at least 2 years additional relevant work experience.
• Experience and knowledge about what optimises learning and utilisation from MRM-generated evidence.
• Demonstrated interest in learning and the uptake of evidence to improve development interventions.
• Experience in using programme theory to design and evaluate interventions that aim at facilitating change in complex systems.
• Strong technical skills in quantitative and qualitative MRM methods (including impact assessments) applied to development programmes.
• Experience in applying DCED standards for results measurements in private sector development/market systems development projects.
• Experience in developing practical guidance and tools for effective monitoring and reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding command of MS Excel. Command of MS Access, SPSS, and other suitable statistical packages will be an added advantage.
• A good understanding of private sector development issues and the market systems development (MSD) approach is a plus.
• Good analytical, managerial, and organisation skills. Good written and spoken English.

Conditions and Environment:
This will be applicable in accordance with the Swisscontact Staff Manual.

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