Our goal is to help families achieve living incomes, which will allow them to feed their families daily; educate all their children; and have proper housing, water, hygiene and other essential resources.
This role will be a one-year consultancy position.
Responsibilities & Deliverables
Design of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Systems (20%)
- Support country MEL managers in preparing their MEL plans and using digital tools for data collection and management.
- Support evidence-gathering to inform the design and implementation of Rwanda and Tanzania Signature Programs.
- Support the dvelopment of a MEL strategy for the Africa Region that will guide operations.
- Ensure alignment of country/project M&E plans with organizational standards.
- Collaborate with the SP Technical Director in networking with other organizations to promote Heifer’s development model and initiatives.
- Lead the development of the Africa Region database to serve as a warehouse for all program/project performance data, including historical data.
- Create a Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Plan that will guide the Africa Signature Program portfolio.
- Design a data flowchart illustrating how the SP performance data across the region will be collected, analyzed, and utilized.
Implementing Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Systems (MELS) (30%)
- Provide technical assistance to country MEL teams during the collection and analysis of data to inform project design, the development of logical frameworks and/or results frameworks with defined indicators (Global Indicators, Project-Specific Indicators, Progress Report or Nested Indicators, Business Transformation Model Indicators, Household Transformation Model Indicators), target setting, monitoring, and progress reporting.
- Support country-specific internal data quality assurance exercises.
- Update the aggregated record of Africa Region’s local leverage resources by the end of each quarter.
- Support country MEL managers during project baseline surveys, progress monitoring, and evaluations in line with their MEL plans.
- Conduct periodic field monitoring visits to the country signature projects.
- Support country program teams as they facilitate “Pause and Reflect” sessions, which provide an opportunity to reflect on previous reporting periods’ achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
- Elevate MEL-related challenges to the Signature Program Technical Director for coordination with the HQ MEL team.
Data Management (Collection, Collation, Curation, Analysis, Quality Assurance) and Utilization for Reporting and Learning (20%)
- Coordinate with MEL managers for timely project data entry into Heifer's Integrated Program Management System (IPMS).
- Lead in summarizing and aggregating data across the Africa Region for organization-wide use.
- Support Country MEL Managers to collect, collate, clean, and analyze Regional-level data for project management, learning, and reporting needs.
- Develop and implement the Africa Regional-level learning-to-action agenda.
- Support documentation of Africa Regional-level lessons learned, successes, challenges, and best practices via case studies.
- Lead the integration of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with the existing MEL system to enhance its functionality.
- Collaborate with the IPMS Business System Manager (BSM) to support country and project-specific development of interactive dashboards using Power BI to enhance data visualization in support of management and visualized data-driven decision-making.
Capacity Development (15%)
- Conduct MEL staff capacity gap assessments and collaborate with the SP Technical Director to implement capacity-building initiatives to fill identified gaps.
- Equip MEL staff and implementing/project partner staff with the necessary skills for MEL activities.
- Build the capacity of project partners in record-keeping and data management.
- Support capacity-building of MEL staff to improve efficiency and compliance with Heifer’s and donors’ standards.
- Assist in recruiting, training, and supervising external consultants for surveys and studies.
Fundraising Support (10%)
- Contribute to project design through the development of Theory of Change, Results Framework, and the selection of Heifer and donors’ standard indicators, and formulate appropriate Project-Specific Indicators for review and incorporation by the country program teams.
- Support the development of concept notes and project proposals by contributing to the development of the results framework and theory of change.
- Support in-country research and evaluation initiatives.
Other Tasks (5%)
- Support other MEL-related tasks as assigned by the Signature Program Technical Director.
Key Behavioural Competencies
- Accountability
- Professional Excellence
- Humility
- Customer Orientation
- Empathy
- Innovation
Method of Application
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