Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Associate position for the GCF Readiness Program at GGGI plays a pivotal role as the country’s MEL focal point. It operationalizes the GCF and GGGI’s MEL framework, designs and implements project MEL plans, provides capacity building and training on MEL aspects at the country level, and champions results monitoring and reporting in the Dominican Republic team.

ENGAGEMENT:

Reports to the GGGI Sustainable Finance Senior Officer with a dual technical reporting line to the Regional MEL Senior Associate, receiving guidance and instruction from project managers.

Liaise regularly with the LAC Regional Office and, as required, with the IEU for strategic direction about operationalizing the organizational MEL framework and participate in the bespoke Community of MEL Practices.

Engages with governments, development partners, contractors, GGGI operations supporting staff, global technical leads, and country officers to lead the design and operationalization of MEL plans for critical projects.

Liaise with other GGGI units, such as Strategy, Partnerships, and other relevant GGGI staff, to ensure reporting requirements are met per the GGGI Project Management Cycle Guidance.

DELIVERY:

Design and lead the implementation of comprehensive MEL plans that outline the frequent monitoring activities (data collection tools, budgets, timelines, roles, and responsibilities, among others), ensuring alignment with overall project objectives and GGGI’s new organizational-wide MEL framework and standards.

Support the development of baseline assessments, data collection tools, and surveys for key projects in the Dominican Republic Country Program.

Lead or support the collection and analysis of data to assess project progress, results, and learnings.

Engage and understand the MEL frameworks of donor project stakeholders to align MEL activities with their expectations and requirements.

Liaise with the IEU, the LAC Regional Office, and evaluation vendors to implement external evaluations.

Compile lessons learned and best practices, contributing to refining GGGI´s MEL framework and methodologies.

In coordination with the LAC Regional Office, support the organization and facilitation of training workshops for national project staff on various aspects of project design and MEL, including tool usage, data collection methods, and data analysis.

Support the training of relevant project staff about effective form building and design for data collection, ensuring forms are user-friendly and capture necessary data accurately.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, political science, monitoring and evaluation, engineering, social sciences, or other fields related to GGGI’s work.
• Certification in M&E/MEL/MEAL is a plus but not required.
• Preferred at least four (4) years of relevant professional experience related to monitoring, evaluation, reporting, learning, and communication, including relevant experience building and managing MEL frameworks, plans, tools, and reporting systems, and relevant experience supervising data collection and data validation exercises, including building staff capacity.
• Demonstrable experience in logical framework and reporting methodologies is required.
• Experience with the UN system, other international organizations, bilateral cooperation entities, or projects is a plus.
• Prior experience leading monitoring, evaluation, reporting, learning, and communication at an NGO or international organization is a plus.
• Full proficiency in Spanish and English is required.
• At least three (3) years of experience supporting the planning and successful delivery of international development projects in developing countries or emerging economies.
• Demonstrable experience in managing data, logical framework and reporting methodologies, online reporting or tracking platforms, evidence and results-based monitoring methodologies, outcome mapping, and database management, preferably applied in the context of developing countries and climate change.
• Proven experience and knowledge in formulating climate adaptation, sustainable development indicators, and interlocking approaches to logical frameworks are desirable.
• Experience and a theoretical and practical background in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques are required.
• Successful experience delivering MEL capacity-building sessions.
• High proficiency in standard Microsoft Office.
• Experience with mobile data collection data tools like Open Data Kit, Kobo Toolbox, or One Data, including Excel form-building and other analysis tools/software, is a plus.
• Experience in international organizations, development agencies, government, private sector, or non-profit sector in M&E.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral team environment.
• Experience in the delivery of training.

Source: https://careers.gggi.org/vacancy/monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-mel-associate-570728.html