Job Opportunities Are Vacant For Plan International Monitoring Evaluation At The Research & Learning Specialist -Tanzania

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning Specialist

Location: Katavi, Tanzania

Company: Plan International

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 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.
BACKGROUND
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan has over 80 years’ experience and works in more than 75 countries across the world. We strive for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners.
Plan International has been working in Tanzania since 1991. Our work supports marginalised children and youth, especially adolescent girls, to grow up physically and mentally healthy and ready to shape their future. We create an enabling environment and empower girls to be active drivers of change in realising their rights. We prioritise working with partners, and ensuring all of our work is evidence based
Vijana na Ubora, Malengo na Afya (VUMA) project is an anticipated 7-year Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funded project, aiming at increasing realisation of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for Adolescents Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in all their diversity in Katavi region. The project will increase AGYW’s individual and collective agency by building Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Sexual Gender Based Violence, Mental Health, infection prevention and control (IPC) and nutrition by empowering them via increased social capital; and by helping them to acquire skills, capacities and increased financial capital. The project will also strengthen the provision of gender and adolescent-responsive and inclusive (GAR&I), integrated and innovative ASRHR and protection services and support for AGYW by building community, school, health facility and governmental capacity, infrastructure, planning and management.
In addition, the project will work with local Women Rights Organizations (WROs), Youth Led Organizations (YLOs), adolescent groups and stakeholders to ensure that gender equality (GE), ASRHR and protection frameworks, policies and services are gender-responsive and evidence-based.
ROLE PURPOSE
> The MERL Specialist will lead the MERL initiatives of VUMA project, ensures quality design of baseline Midline and end-line evaluation (including data collection tools; methodology and reports).
> Ensures quality of the data collected and analysis are used to improve ongoing project implementation. She/he will support project director in data synthesis and consistently produces quality reports that inform VUMA project performance indicators.
> The Specialist is responsible to make sure the project teams integrate MERL planning across the program life cycle.
> She/he will drive the qualitative and quantitative routine and periodic data collections, and developing successful mechanisms for the project learning.
> In coordination with Project Director and MERL team members, she/he will make sure project teams applies the appropriate frameworks, tools and knowledge sharing to improve implementation and contribute to project goal.
> She/he will be responsible for design, coordination, and constantly improving the VUMA project M&E system and opportunities for research.
> He/she will work with other organizational MERL team to build MERL capacity of the project team (both Plan and partners) that trains and mentors M&E staff and promotes a culture of learning, including making use of data for descision making.

Dimensions of the Role

Work closely with other project specalists to support the design, management and implementation of VUMA Project MERL systems, and key components of the gender transformative M&E system, and the use of gender data to contribute to annual work planning and budgeting processes;

Develop and ensure application of effective data collection, tracking, and reporting to monitor project results, outputs, outcomes, training pre-post test results, knowledge acquisition, change of behaviours.

Lead the baseline and end-line evaluation that can include primary and secondary data collection, household survey, KII and FGDs, Facility Assessment, Gender Assessment based on the project needs.

Ensure the integrity and relevance of data collected from the project are reliable to support project achievements, and suggest timely adjustments to better serve project objectives and priorities

Contribute to narrative reporting and donor compliance requirements, including reviewing data in Performance Measurement Frameworks, and work plans and ensuring VUMA Quality reports and work plans are results-focused

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Project Monitoring and Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation

Liaise with country office teams to develop, implement, and revise monitoring and evaluation plans, including key indicators to be reported to the donor and PLAN GLOBAL MERL systems (YODA and Beneficiaries Counting)

Create and adapt high-quality data collection tools including monitoring tools and databases, facility assessment and supervision tools, and training materials.

Develop methods, tools, and processes to capture ongoing implementation learning, including how the project’s strategies are being implemented and adapted.

Support the project team to apply results-based monitoring and lessons learned to refine activities and implementation.

Research and Evaluation

Lead the project’s aspects of a qualitative and quantitative evaluations,

Lead development of research protocols, data collection instruments, study operation procedures, analytic plans, training materials and request for permit submissions.

Contribute to the project evaluation and formative research studies, including contributing to the development of tools and protocols and/or managing external consultants/partners.

Provide support to quantitative research and evaluation studies led by external partners.

Provide leadership on interpreting and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative evaluation findings in order to form a cohesive and coherent understanding of the project’s progress, learning, and impact.

Cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders to partner with in designing high-quality research for the VUMA project.

Information Management

Lead and collaborate with project staff to translate project learning and results into accessible technical products for global and country stakeholders.

Lead project’s data visualization efforts.

Lead or contribute to regular project’s donor reporting, including preparing presentations or other deliverables to Country office, Plan Management, the National office, and donor.

Conceptualize, convene, and present in technical consultations, webinars, and other engagements internally and externally.

Design standardized templates and tools that ensure quality and facilitate the acquisition, aggregation and flow of information in programs.

Technical Leadership

Provide leadership, training and mentoring in the areas of MERL learning agendas, and other skills required for assessing the impact of programs.

Lead a project team in planning for large-scale assessments and/or broad surveys (e.g. baselines, end-lines).

Coordinate with project leadership and senior management to encourage a culture of learning within project staff.

Lead a project team in planning for and oversight of external evaluations in partnership with program leadership.

Ensure project use appropriate M&E systems and tools, to inform and improve each individual program, as well as feed into the broader country-level M&E system and country strategy.

Support project and other teams in collecting sex and age disaggregated data and using gender sensitive data- collection methods in order to understand and respond to program results with diverse participants.

Participate in the facilitation of project planning sessions, assisting team leaders in the development of their annual plans.

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