Regional Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Coordinator

• Provide oversight and management of MEAL activities.

• Support development and implementation of annual workplans, budgets, and deliverables. Identify and agree on course corrections with the Deputy Director, Technical, and partner technical experts to keep priorities on track.

• Develop and run a monitoring and evaluation system across all project components and partners that demonstrates qualitative and quantitative methods and draws from a variety of data sources to measure progress and evaluate impact, as well as support collaboration, learning, and adaptation.

o quantifying and measuring project progress over Outputs, Outcomes and Key Performance Indicators

o enhance and maintain an electronic, cloud-based database to be used by project M&E staff including the corresponding monitoring and measurement tools in line with IRC Monitoring standards.

o data collection, analysis, reporting and sharing through organization data platform.

o regular reviews of project data and progress to assist senior management to make evidence-based decisions and easy course correction.

• More specifically, support the project on:

o Routine monitoring of project activities, conduct data audits as needed;

o Utilize digital data collection where feasible.

o Data storage and secure accessibility of data by project staff across partners and countries.

• Regularly review data collection processes, perform data quality assessments, and adjust as needed.

• Conduct regular visits to project sites, as possible, to provide technical assistance and ensure accurate monitoring of project activities.

• Assure that learning activities provide timely, relevant information for policy-influencing opportunities (governmental or humanitarian) or programming decisions.

• Support regional team activities to assure that data from monitoring activities are used to adjust and adapt programming over time.

• Leverage existing IRC staff and partner expertise or build capacity as needed to assure front-line staff participation in the interpretation and application of results, as well as design of learning agendas and plans.

• Provide technical and management support to enable field staff to implement protocols and plans safely, ethically, and rigorously.

Capacity building:

• Contribute to capacity building of project staff and partner organizations to design and utilize MEAL tools, surveys, evaluations, and other MEAL activities.

Project Management and compliance:

• Work with the country field teams to ensure that project indicators are properly tracked through regular field visits.

• Review all reports to ensure that data provided is complete, consistent, accurate and timely, and that target indicators are met and explanations provided where indicators are not met.

• Produce quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports for the Project Director and the donor, as needed and timely.

• Together with the Policy and Advocacy, Communications Specialist, support with summarizing key MEAL findings that can be used to improve project implementation and advocacy.