Position: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

Organization: PATH

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Responsibilities:

• Develop M&E frameworks and systems for different projects including contribution to the design of project indicators, tools for data collection, storage, analysis of data, and its publication under the RCM portfolio.
• Work closely with the Central Program team and State Technical Assistance team to gauge project requirements.
• Ensure alignment of research and M&E activities with program goals including defining project targets and developing data collection tools and preparing evaluation reports;
• Lead tracking & delivering all M&E-related reporting requirements to Internal & External stakeholders.
• Collate, organize and analyze project data and update project indicators with program data.
• Coordinate with state-level Data Managers for smooth flow of data.
• Develop and implement M&E reporting guidelines and systems designed to inform the direction of the project, including data quality and data use strategies.
• Handle data management of dynamic data sets- ensuring correctness, completeness, and timeliness of data shared by the State Leads.
• Manage data-related queries and find solutions related to data entry and analysis.
• Supervise and provide mentoring support to staff involved in collecting and analyzing data and reporting results.
• Design and implement processes for Monitoring and Evaluation of Sub-Grantees, in collaboration with the Program Leadership;
• Conduct field-based monitoring, technical assistance, and training to program teams, and partner organizations, to strengthen their capacity in the collection, cleaning, and analysis of data for program management and donor reporting.
• Collaborate with counterparts and partner organizations in work Planning and Program Implementation;
• Contribute to the development and implementation of a strategy for synthesizing and disseminating key results, programmatic lessons learned, and other research outputs of the program;
• Contribute to and review quarterly and annual program reports, project deliverables, and assessment reports prior to submission to donors and PATH headquarters.
• Develop research protocols and ensure approval from the Research Ethics Committee at PATH and local IRB (as required) ensuring the protection of human subjects.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in a relevant field (Development Studies, Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics or Life sciences, etc.)
• 4-6 years experience and demonstrated practical skills in monitoring and evaluation preferably for donor-funded programs.
• Demonstrated experience in the Development and Implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation frameworks and systems required for community development and technical assistance programs.
• Experience developing study design and methodology including study protocol, sampling procedures, assisting with implementation, analysis, and interpretation of results and documentation results, and learnings from the project is preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of Monitoring and Evaluation principles and practices is essential.
• Demonstrated capacity to use project M&E to advance strategic goals and provide data for decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability and skills in Data Management, data analysis, and synthesis, performance evaluation, and correction, and report writing.
• Competency in Training, Institutional Capacity-Building, documenting project learnings for advocacy.
• Excellent representational and communication skills.
• Written and oral proficiency in English, and verbal communication skills in one or more local languages.
• Knowledge of statistical software (such as SPSS, STATA, and SAS) and comfort with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (or similar tools) is preferred.
• Excellent in written and spoken English.