Practical Action is Recruiting for a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (MEL Officer): Apply Now!
Application Deadline: 2 August 2024
Practical Action is Recruiting for a Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (MEL Officer): Apply Now!
Background
Practical Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage. With over 50 years of expertise, Practical Action has a strong heritage, and track record of bringing communities and experts together to find practical, sustainable solutions to enable people to meet their needs, which work for both people and the planet.
Practical Action is committed to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment through all its work. This includes programmes, knowledge sharing, advocacy, external communications, and its own organisational development. At a minimum, Practical Action ensure that all its work is gender sensitive, seeking gender transformative approaches as its overall ambition and in accordance with context.
Reporting to the Senior MEL Officer, the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (MEL Officer) will support in designing and continuation of relevant MEL processes and tools in coordination with project delivery teams and any other relevant implementing partners. This will involve; developing and supporting use MEL systems to collect, aggregate and analyse data in addition to playing a partnership role in ensuring the compliance and reporting requirements of key stakeholders are met in full.
Person Profile
To be successful in the role, the ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., development studies, economics, statistics, social sciences).
- Minimum of 3 years work experience in knowledge management, monitoring and evaluating programs with an organization with a robust M&E component.
- Strong technical skills including use of PowerBI or Tableau.
- Good knowledge in using indicators at output, outcome and goal level and developing tools for measurement purposes.
- Strong experience in evaluation methodologies such as outcome mapping and Most Significant Change.
- Experience in integrating gender and inclusion into project design and MEAL aspects.
- Successful track record of implementing effective MEL systems, including experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection and management.
- Experience in gathering learnings and promoting their application.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills to understand the range and content of the organization’s thematic work and provide practical solutions to operational challenges.
How to Apply
If you are ready for an exciting challenge with an organisation whose mission and values are particularly relevant in these rapidly changing times, please forward your application, curriculum vitae and cover letter to: Practical Action, Kenya Office by email: recruitment@practicalaction.or.ke no later than 2nd August, 2024 indicating ‘Practical Action: Job Title” in the subject line of the email. Your cover letter should outline why you feel you are the right candidate for this position. Please include the names of 3 referees in your CV.
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