MERL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning) Specialist

Essential

• Master’s degree in social sciences, social research, development studies, public health or a related field oriented to monitoring and evaluation methods with at least 4-5 years of relevant experience OR Bachelor’s degree in related field with at least 7 years of leading monitoring, evaluation, research, and accountability in national/international development organizations.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English and Nepali.
• Proven experience in a technical capacity involving design and implementation of evaluations/research or leading evaluation/research teams and drafting technical reports.
• Proven experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. 
• Ability to implement data quality assurance mechanism for project level.
• Knowledge on digital data collection tools and procedure.
• Skill to critically analyse data and produce comprehensive reports to support programme decision-making. 
• Experienced in developing TORs and coordinating with consultants for quality evaluations and assessments.
• Experience conducting interviews with young people, children and communities.
• Strong capacity and creativity in leading and facilitating participatory methodologies to meaningfully engage beneficiaries, including children, and receiving their feedback through approaches such as social audit, employing quality benchmarks.
• Experience in capacity development of staff or partners in project monitoring, evaluation or research.

Desirable

• Proven experience in managing multiple and competing tasks while maintaining quality of deliverables within deadlines;
• Experience of managing large datasets. Experience of using SQL server is an asset.
• Experience in use of statistical packages such as SPSS, R or STATA for inferential analysis.
• Experience in use of data visualization tools like Power Bi, Tableau, GIS.
• Experience in use of electronic data collection platforms like Kobo toolbox, ODK, ONA.
• Experienced in rights-based approach to development.
• Facilitating child led/focused monitoring, evaluation or research.

Plan is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

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