Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer at Practical Action Kenya

Leadership and Strategic Alignment

• Contribute to the development process of the strategic business plan (SBP), ensuring that change objectives are developed to achieve change in the lives of people that we work with.
• Provide data that supports routine quarterly and annual reporting of the SBP including reporting on the global indicators.
• Provide data on the global indicators and show progress against targets.
• Strengthening Profile, Generating Funding and Managing Relationships
• Contribute to the proposal development process by participating in design workshops that build proposals.
• Ensure that MEL, gender assessments and learning and reflection is built into proposals (log frames and budgets)
• Ensure learning from program delivery feeds into organizational profile strengthening through stories of change and impact reporting.

Delivering Quality

• Support the Senior MEL officer to develop project level MEL plans/ logframes that ensure tracking of programme results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact).
• Maintain the online project database and ensure regular data updates and data integrity.
• Effectively formulate, implement, and enforce proper data collection tools, processes and procedures for the project.
• Monitor overall progress on achievement of results including the sustainability of the project results.
• Aggregate and analyse data from across the project interventions to contribute to management decision-making and reporting.
• Conduct field visits for data validation and to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets; coordinate data collection at project sites and ensure timely compilation and reporting of data.
• Work closely with project team and partners to ensure appropriate feedback mechanisms are incorporated into project.
• Conduct project level review, learning and reflection sessions, as specified in the MEL framework as a key accountability mechanism.
• Collate project learning along with ensuring effective knowledge management between departments and affiliates to ensure the whole organisation benefits from and applies programmatic learning.
• Support quality project baseline, mid and end evaluations and ensure findings are reflected on and evaluation management responses prepared.
• Ensure timely reporting: monthly, quarterly, annual and end of projects reports in accordance with donor requirements.
• Ensure gender and social inclusion are embedded in MEL.
• Support the programs and communications teams in documentation of impact/ success stories.
• Sensitivity on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion:
• Should have respectful beliefs regardless of their gender, age, sex, race, ethnic background, culture, different ability, nationality, religion, and marital status. Is sensitive and adaptable to gender and social inclusion and adopts inclusive practices. Responds and behaves apppropriately in different situations.

PERSON PROFILE
To be successful in the role, the ideal candidate should meet the following requirements:

• Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• 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.