Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Officer (Based in Country Office; Open to all applicants)

Responsibility: Support and lead to ensure an effective MERL system is in place for the project including development and implementation of MERL systems of assigned project, regular collection of monitoring data and its analysis for management information purposes; Provide inputs to Project Director and MERL team in project design to ensure effective application of program learning, as well as to support in all baselines, mid-term and endlines evaluations and research with technical support from the Research, Evaluation and Knowledge Management Specialist; Develop capacity of field and partner organisation staff in all MERL related tasks, systems and processes.

Travel required: 25%

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential 

• Minimum of five years of professional experience in a senior M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of international development projects. 
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages. 
• Experience in planning and managing various studies; for example, performance evaluations, baseline studies, case studies, and gender/diversity/related studies. 
• Experience designing and managing multiple disaggregation variables for participant monitoring and database systems, including gender and age. 
• Bachelor’s OR Master’s degree in statistics, demographics, public policy, international development, economics, or related field.
• Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s plus an advanced certificate in M&E, statistics, economics, or international development preferred; or, ten (10) years or more of related work experience. 
• Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator design, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and/performance monitoring plans. 
• Experience in designing and administering data collection tools, conducting data entry, data cleaning, data processing and analysis. 
• Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies. 
• Experience managing and providing ongoing training to M&E field officers and/or subrecipients. 
• Experience with data quality assessments and oversight. 
• Understanding of gender mainstreaming and analysis frameworks and development of indicators pertaining to adolescent girls’ and women’s economic empowerment is preferred.

Desirable 

Experienced in rights-based approach to development. Facilitating child led monitoring, evaluation or research.

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

To Apply,

Applications are solely accepted through People2People online application procedures. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further selection process. Canvassing at any stage of processes shall lead to automatic disqualification. Due to the urgency of the positions, recruitment will be held on rolling basis and Plan international reserves the right to select a candidate prior to the deadline.

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