Deadline: 17 February, 2022

Location: Lira, Uganda

Plan International is seeking to fill the role of Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Coordinator.

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

Responsibilities 

• Conduct routine monitoring-field visits of all the project activities, produce and share monitoring reports with project teams
• Design, update (review) and implement project monitoring tools as per project monitoring and evaluation plan and ensure use of appropriate tools in collection, compilation, analysis and utilisation across the project
• Support the development and rollout of project targets and standards
• Provide technical guidance in developing and maintaining the project’s monitoring and evaluation database, including overseeing and leading the continuous update of project milestones in the PMERL system
• Consolidate, track and share on a monthly basis action points agreed upon in all project review/reflection meetings
• Regularly track project progress and update the project indicator performance trackers to support the project reporting obligations to different stakeholders
• Follow up and document best practices, case studies, lessons learnt, most significant change stories and reflection of the project
• Together with the project manager, review all project write-ups (including concepts) and partners’ quarterly and annual progress report
• Monitor and consolidate project implementation findings against approved work plans and budgets
• Provide strategic leadership in the project’s research, evaluation, organisational learning and documentation initiatives within the project, including reviewing and validating reports, and leading reflection and dissemination processes at field level
• Plan, facilitate and conduct monitoring and evaluation capacity-building activities for the project team and partners
• Contribute to the country office quarterly and annual reporting requirements by providing timely and quality data to the programme MER coordinator
• Support the project team to develop monitoring and evaluation section of project outlines
• Support project team and partners to develop detailed implementation plans in line with the proposal
• Consolidate, track and share on a quarterly basis the project’s detailed implementation plan
• Ensure Plan International and donor standards such as safeguarding children and young peoples’ policy, research protocols, knowledge management and MER standards and Guidelines are adhered to
• Support to ensure that the entire project’s programming mainstreams gender, disaster risk reduction and child protection
• Support the project team to ensure that the registered project risks are regularly mitigated, tracked and updated as required
• In consultation and agreement, perform any other functions as may be deemed appropriate by management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Social Sciences, Social Work, Development Studies or a related field
• Additional training at postgraduate level in Monitoring and Evaluation, Project Planning and Management or a related field is an asset
• Three years, minimum, of experience in providing monitoring and evaluation in development and humanitarian contexts
• Demonstrated skills and experience in report-writing, donor compliance and budget management
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people from diverse cultures
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Ability to work well in teams
• Research methodology skills
• Analytical skills
• Demonstrated experience in capacity-building, mentoring and coaching staff
• Proven computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft software, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, e-mail and web-based research
• Ability to work in hard-to-reach, hard-to-stay areas and familiarity with programming for vulnerable children especially young girls and boys

To apply and for more information, click here.

Photo source: Plan International South Sudan