Monitoring, Evaluation And Learning Associate

The MEL Associate plays a pivotal role as the country’s MEL focal point, operationalizing GGGI’s MEL framework at the country level, , designing and implementing project MEL plans, and championing results monitoring and reporting in the Guyana team.

Additionally, the MEL Associate will collaborate with project managers to create tailored MEL tools for effective monitoring and evaluation, assist in internal and external reporting, and compile lessons learned to refine GGGI’s MEL methodologies.

The MEL Associate, in coordination with the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Regional Office, will support the organization of capacity building and training activities on MEL aspects, such as developing strong logframes and indicators, MEL plan design and operationalization, data collection tools, data analysis and visualization and other relevant MEL skills. The MEL Associate will ensure monitoring and reporting integrity in the Guyana Country Program.

Engagement:

• Reports to the GGGI Guyana Program Manager with a dual technical reporting line to the Regional MEL Senior Associate, receiving guidance and instruction from project managers.
• Liaise chiefly and regularly with the LAC Regional Office and, as required, the IEU for strategic direction about operationalizing the organizational MEL framework and participate in the MEL Community of Practice.
• Engages with governments, development partners, contractors, GGGI operations supporting staff, global technical leads, and country officers to support the operationalization of MEL plans for key projects.
• Liaise with other GGGI units, such as Strategy, Partnerships, Communications & Knowledge Sharing, and other relevant GGGI staff, to ensure reporting requirements are being met per the GGGI Project Management Cycle Guidance, as well as doner requirements.

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in economics, project management, development studies, monitoring & evaluation, political science, social sciences, environment science, climate change, sustainable development, or related areas is required.
• Preferred 3-5 years of experience in MEL, project management, or auditing, including relevant experience building and managing MEL frameworks, plans, tools, and reporting systems.
• Certification in M&E/MEL/MEAL is a plus, but not required.
• Experience supervising data collection and data validation exercises, including analyzing and presenting the information in reports or to donors.
• Experience in providing training and building staff capacity in MEL activities.
• Demonstrable experience in logical framework and reporting methodologies.
• Experience and a theoretical and practical background in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques are required.
• Experience and knowledge in formulating climate adaptation and sustainable development indicators and interlocking approaches to logical frameworks is desirable.
• Experience with mobile data collection tools like Open Data Kit, Kobo Toolbox and/or Ona Data, including xls form-building and other analysis tools/software is a plus.

Source: https://careers.gggi.org/vacancy/monitoring-evaluation-and-learning-mel-associate-564489.html