MEL Analyst at TechnoServe Kenya

About the job
The MEL Analyst is an exciting role to support monitoring and evaluation for our growing portfolio of coffee programs in Africa. The MEL Analyst will contribute to the coffee practice programs’ impact by ensuring the highest data quality standards are reached. The MEL Analyst will support the Sr. MEL Analyst to support farmer training attendance monitoring and reporting and collaborate closely with country MEL teams.

If you are highly-organized with proven experience in managing and monitoring databases for MEL purposes and developing data collection systems, and if you are enthusiastic and eager to learn about collecting and analyzing data to improve decision-making then you may be exactly the person that we are looking for!

Primary activities include, but are not limited to:

Design data collection systems:
Support the generation and regular update of farmer training attendance data collection materials and training that support country coffee team activities.

Attendance database management:

• Support the data validation process of farmer attendance databases to ensure the accuracy and quality of data collected:
• Oversee country data entry clerks, where required, to ensure information is correctly entered into the farmer attendance databases
• Conduct data quality checks on farmer attendance databases
• Produce back-check reports that ensure farmer attendance is recorded accurately
• Support in on-boarding and training new country MEL data entry clerks

Analysis:

Generate monthly figures on attendance using Stata to be integrated in the monthly and donor attendance scorecards for all Coffee Farm College programs

Basic Qualifications:

• Holds at least a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field of study such as economics, statistics, social sciences, or other related discipline.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role
• Demonstrated high attention to detail, good planning, coordination and communication skills required
• Fluent user of STATA, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience working with at least one ODK-based platform (such as SurveyCTO, ODK, CommCare) is a plus.

Success Factors:

• Competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) directly related to successful performance on the job.

Core Competencies include:

• Integrity and honesty: Is widely trusted; seen as a direct, truthful individual; presents truthful information in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; does not misrepresent himself or herself for personal gain.
• Team Work/ Relationships: Works co-operatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member and/or leader, to achieve a common goal. Ability to build and maintain effective relationships and networks.
• Learning attitude: Proactively takes advantage of opportunities to learn. Actively identifies new areas for learning; applies and shares new knowledge and skill appropriately.
• Diversity/Inclusiveness: Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation for diversity and supports diversity efforts. Interacts effectively with and inclusively with people of all races, cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, ages, and genders.
• Communication: Expresses ideas effectively in individual and group situations. Listens effectively; shares information, ideas and arguments; adjusts terminology, language and communication modes to the needs of the audience; ensures accurate understanding; acts in a way that facilitates open exchange of ideas and information; uses appropriate non-verbal communication.
• Decision making/Problem Solving: Is able to analyse situations, diagnose problems, identify the key issues, establish and evaluate alternative courses of action and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution. Is able to make effective decisions on a day-to-day basis, taking ownership of decisions, demonstrating sound judgement in escalating issues where necessary.
• Results Oriented/ High Quality Deliverables: Stays focused on the efforts necessary to achieve quality results consistent with programmatic or departmental goals. Demonstrates the ability to achieve effective results; works persistently to overcome obstacles to goal achievement. Accomplishes tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks.
• Planning & Time Management: Establishes a course of action for self and/or others to accomplish a specific goal. Effectively plans, schedules, prioritizes and controls activities; identifies, integrates and orchestrates resources (people, material, information, budget, and/or time) to accomplish goals. Prioritizes work according to the program or department’s goals, not just own job responsibilities; manages own time effectively.
• Business Acumen: The ability to use information, ask the right questions and take decisions that make an impact on the overall business performance.

Job Specific/Technical Competencies include:

• Computer Literacy: Demonstrates knowledge and ability to use specific computer programs or applications for own functional area. Has the ability to improve performance by integrating new and existing technology into the workplace.
• Analysis, Research, Report Writing: Experience in business planning and analysis, modelling for feasibility and execution. Able to analyse and express oneself clearly in business writing.
• Innovative Mindset: Curious inquiries, asks questions and seeks out information from multiple sources, learns from mistakes, sees change as an opportunity