Responsibilities

MEL Management (65%)

• Work with Program teams to integrate MEL into ongoing program planning and implementation activities.
• Work with program teams to streamline their data systems, define key indicators, and ensure seamless, timely, high-quality data including refinement and development of data collection instruments.
• Coordinate with program teams to review indicator updates on a monthly basis.  Generate data reports (tables/graphs/reports) from the program databases at regular intervals, ensuring reports/information are available for program implementation staff as required. Facilitate data analysis with program implementation team as requested.
• Lead the execution of diverse data and evidence activities, including baselines, routine monitoring, evidence reviews, analyses, and one-off evaluations. Ensure successful data collection, analysis, and reporting to drive better program decisions and impact.
• Directly manage MEL coordinators responsible field based activities for different programs.
• Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for MEL and build the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain a robust MEL system

Reporting, Communications and Fundraising Support (15%)

• Develop and adapt monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reporting tools and provide support to MEL Coordinators to use the reporting templates.
• Support creation of draft monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports as needed and upon request by MEL Manager, Impact and Learning Manager and the Advancement team.
• Manage relationships with partners as requested
• Represent SHOFCO in Partnership meetings as requested

Information Management (15%)

• Enhance monitoring of program outputs and quality, generate quality evidence on program impact and promote and ensure use of data for decision-making processes.
• Support program teams use of CommCare and other MIS systems for program management and reporting.
• Provide assistance for integration of forms and surveys into CommCare
• Assist in creation and management of MEL information storage systems and ensure MEL data is backed-up on an ongoing basis

Administration (5%)

• Provide management oversight and leadership, as requested by, and in collaboration
  with, the MEL Manager and Impact and Learning Director.
• Participate in and contribute to internal and external mid-management meetings when applicable
• Support general operations as needed including review and approval of field based CIFF / Mastercard MEL activities.
• Safeguarding is all staff’s responsibility at SHOFCO. The Senior MEL officer is expected to escalate any safeguarding issues identified to the People and Culture and/or Safeguarding department.

Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).

Academic Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years professional experience in high-quality professional roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership role involving MEL or data and evidence broadly.
• Expertise with selected data analysis and visualization tools e.g PowerBI; ability to execute high-quality analysis and visualizations independently.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating data systems for Education, WASH and GBV programs.

Reporting: This position reports to the Senior MEL Manager/Data Manager with a dotted line to the Impact, Partnership and Learning Director

Functional Skills

• Developing expertise
• Managing tasks
• Articulating information
• Examining information

Behavioural Competencies/Attributes

• Team working
• Establishing rapport
• Directing people
• Generating ideas