IRC recrute un Gestionnaire principal, suivi, évaluation, recherche et apprentissage (MERL) au Bangladesh.
Position Summary
The IRC is seeking a Senior Manager, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) for the five-year, $25 million USAID-funded AHA. This project will encompass a set of innovative interventions, with an overall goal of addressing the social, systemic, and environmental challenges in the country around women and girls’ health and wellbeing. The Adolescent Health Activity (AHA) will support efforts to curb adolescent childbearing and early marriage outcomes in Bangladesh by addressing gaps and investing in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents ages 10-14 in Bangladesh. The overall development assistance is expected to be delivered in the following sectors: health, nutrition, women empowerment, and economic inclusion.
The Senior Manager MERL provides strategic guidance, vision, and management for successful monitoring and evaluation of the program. S/he oversees all MEL activities, provides technical direction and support, ensures the accurate reporting of results for program activities, overseas learning and adaptation processes in close coordination with the country office’s MEL team.
This position will report to the DCOP and is contingent on the IRC being awarded funding. It is anticipated to begin in September 2023.
Key Responsibilities:
• Oversee the design and implementation of the project’s MERL system in coordination with IRC’s MEAL team to develop key performance indicators, targets, tools, and appropriate MEL responsibilities across the project.
• Develop and disseminate relevant M&E tools, formats and lead the provision of M&E specific technical training.
• Oversee data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and reporting, ensuring that data is of high quality and audit worthy.
• Coordinate any external evaluation processes, including drafting evaluation ToR and selection of firm, in alignment with award.
• Strengthen staff and partners’ capacity in qualitative and quantitative monitoring and evaluation techniques through comprehensive staff training, mentoring, and/or coaching.
• Work closely with partners to establish their internal MEL systems and design and conduct trainings to support capacity for MEL among partners.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of a comprehensive project database, ensure accurate and timely storage of electronic files.
• Responsible for the data analysis, writing, and review of the results and learning sections of program reports in collaboration with program staff, before submission to donor and ensure consortium partners’ compliance with internal data quality requirements and timely submissions for reporting.
• Produce learning products and thought leadership pieces relevant to the project intervention, present in conferences/webinars regarding project’s MEL successes.
• Other tasks as assigned.
Basic Requirements:
• Master’s degree in any of the following or related fields: social science, international development, public health, evaluation, statistics, or economics.
• At least 7-10 years of progressively responsible experience in designing, managing, and implementing results-based MEL activities.
• At least 5 years of supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated relevant technical skills in analyzing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data and packaging the findings.
• Excellent organizational as well as English oral and written communication skills. Fluency in Bengali is strongly preferred.
• Progressively responsible experience in monitoring and evaluation of building capacity for civil society organizations and networks/coalition strengthening, program beneficiaries, and program staff.
• Experience in utilizing gender and social inclusion sensitive indicators and measures.
• Extensive knowledge of reporting procedures, including USAID, best practices, guidelines, and tools for monitoring, evaluation and learning, including impact evaluation.
• Ability to work well on team and with various partner organizations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc., and the ability to use various commercially available statistical software programs.
The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.
**Local applicants and women strongly encouraged to apply*
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