MERL Officer

The Organisation

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

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

ROLE PURPOSE
The MERL Officer will be responsible to implement a functional M&E system at project level. The MERL Officer will work closely with partners and will support the Senior MERL Coordinator and the programme teams with technical oversight and direction on all monitoring and evaluation needs across implementing areas. The employee will support the Senior MERL Coordinator in ensuring timely and quality reporting. The MERL Officer will support the provision of programmes staff at Plan and partner organisations with the information and training to capture monitoring metrics regularly and efficiently. 

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
Under the direct supervision of the Senior MERL Coordinator, the MERL Officer is expected to contribute to the quality assurance of the projects. The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work closely with the partners Monitoring and Evaluation Officers to ensure that projects data are being collected, entered and analysed. The MERL Officer will work closely with the Projects teams and partners involved in projects implementation in order to ensure coherent and comprehensive projects are implemented, lessons are learned and experiences shared across the various sectors and programme teams.
 

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Location:Beirut

Type of Role: Monitoring & Evaluation

Reports to: Senior MERL Coordinator

Grade: C1

Closing Date: 31 January 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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