Market-Based Resilience for Marginalized Populations (MB-RMP)

SCOPE OF WORK

TITLE: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

DURATION OF CONTRACT: Long-term

LOCATION: Mogadishu, Somalia

SUPERVISOR: MERL Director

Project Background:

The USAID/Somalia Market-Based Resilience for Marginalized Populations (MB-RMP) activity will work with the Somali government and people to ensure drought resistant agriculture and livelihood diversification for rural and urban households, as well as robust private sector engagement for inclusive economic opportunities for marginalized groups. More specifically, MB-RMP will provide targeted technical support and capacity building to strengthen resilience to climatic shocks for agriculture systems, increase the capacity of the private sector to include urban migrants and displaced persons, and increase marginalized households’/businesses’ access to finance and domestic remittances.

Position Summary:

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer (MELO) is responsible for overall Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) responsibilities in their assigned portfolio. This includes writing appropriate MEL plans for each activity in their region, ensuring the collection of output and outcome data for each activity, and conducting regular MEL tasks for each activity such as key informant interviews, focus groups discussions, and similar actions. The MELO will support the MERL Director in the development of additional MEL tools to conduct cluster evaluations and higher-level MEL tools and ensure the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (AMELP) indicators are adequately collected and tracked. The holder of the position should have strong qualitative research skills. Persons with a journalism background are encouraged to apply.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead all M&E processes at the activity level for the assigned portfolio

In collaboration with senior management and program staff, develop individual M&E plans for each activity inclusive of:

• Output and Outcome Objectives
• Output and Outcome Indicators
• Means of Verification
• Responsible Parties
• Timelines

Support the collection and collation of all data required within the activity MEL plans, inclusive of conducting key informant interviews, focus group discussions, administering questionnaires or other relevant activities

Request the support of the program staff to collect data required by the MEL plans when needed

– inclusive of photographs, attendance sheets or other items

Responsible for seeking assistance from the MERL Director on a regular basis when developing plans, to seek input on any complex or unusual activities

Ensure all MEL products maintain a level of quality consistent with USAID/FCDO expectations

Support the MEL Manager as requested in the development of additional MEL tools including the AMELP; cluster evaluations or other qualitative tools; baseline surveys; program indicators

Support data collection on the ground for any cluster evaluations or baseline, mid and final surveys as requested by the MERL Director; inclusive of helping coordinate logistics required

Contribute to learning processes at the regional level, including leading discussions at the conclusion of individual activities to discuss lessons learned and potential follow-on activities

Provide recommendations to program teams on how to improve or build-on completed activities Other tasks as assigned by supervisor.