Basic Qualifications
These are the requirements that any qualified candidate must meet. Typically includes:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Agribusiness, project Management, Social Sciences or related discipline with 3 years’ experience (alternatively Master's Degree with 1 year experience) in monitoring and evaluation and also donor funded programming.
- Experience utilizing M&E methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and participatory methods as well as the use of causal logic in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
Additional qualifications that would make a candidate more desirable:
- Experience working in Nigeria.
- Experience working with an INGO.
- Experience working in an entrepreneurship donor funded project.
Required Languages:
- Excellent written and spoken English
Travel:
- Willingness to travel to field locations
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
This section should highlight the competencies that would make a candidate successful in the role such as:
- Strong interpersonal skill.
- Expertise in data management, analysis, and interpretation, skilled at data visualization.
- Demonstrable critical skills in data collection, analysis and reporting, and performance monitoring of donor funded projects.
- Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player.
- Proficiency in working with Comcare is an advantage.
- Proficient in MS Office: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the enterprise development landscape in Nigeria.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities
The MEL specialist will support MEL implementation for the project, including:
- Coordinate data collection from primary data sources to final reporting against project performance indicators and emergent project information needs.
- Support application of qualitative and quantitative methods to inform knowledge gaps.
- Contribute to the design of forms, surveys, and indices as well as the data management system.
- Development of databases and dashboards for data visualization.
- Perform regular data quality assessments, data cleaning, and data analysis.
- Conduct field visits to understand the context and identify additional data needs.
- Provide ongoing technical assistance and training to project technical staff on their role in data collection, analysis, review and use.
- Coordinate the project’s learning agenda and specific learning questions
- Ensure that project’s monitoring system captures impact on women and other disadvantaged groups
- Become familiarized with the applicable donor rules and regulations, including the donor’s evaluation guidelines and indicator handbook
- Understand the specific MEL deliverables that the project is contractually responsible for, and manage their development
Provide inputs to data-driven decision-making:
- Assist in the process of adaptive management in the project using project MEL data.
- Support the documentation of best practices and production of information to capture and share lessons learned.
- Collaborate with Regenerative Agriculture Advisors and Subawardees MEL SPOC to consolidate data and insights from projects.
- Support information flows across the implementation team and the sharing and analysis of new information.
- Actively lead and contribute to collaboration learning and adapting throughout the project lifetime.
- Assist in the development of all project reports.
Participate in the broader MEL ecosystem at TechnoServe:
- Attend capacity building meetings and other relevant events related to MEL as directed.
- Support access to and insight into the project’s MEL approach to facilitate the Regional MEL’s assessment of the project against organizational standards and annual impact reporting.
- Assist in the development of corporate measurement reports as required.