, Addis Ababa
FHI360
Position Title:            Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer (MEL Officer), USAID-CVC project Reports to:                 The Regional Manager Duty Stations:            Addis Ababa   FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in Health, Education, Nutrition, Environment, Economic Development, Civil Society, Gender, Youth, Research and Technology– creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 60 countries, all 50 U.S. states and all U.S. territories.  For the USAID project focusing on highly vulnerable children in Ethiopia, FHI 360 is seeking qualified candidate for the position of MEL Officer to be based in Addis Ababa (1), Hawassa (1) and Bahir Dar (2). Job summary: The MEL Officer will closely work with the Local Implementing Partners (LIPs) and USAID-CVC project consortium members.  S/he provides technical support in the areas of data collection, analysis and reporting to Community Volunteers (CVs) and Social Service Workers (SSWs).  S/he technically has dotted line relationship with the project Sr. MEL Officer based in Addis and directly reports to the Regional Manager.  The MEL Officer is also responsible to provide MEL technical assistance to government partners (mainly BoWCA/BoLSA) and serve as focal person to facilitate MEL task coordination among project key partners.     Essential job functions:  duties and responsibilities ·         Understand the data that should be reported to central level from the region s/he is assigned. ·         Make sure all the data collection and reporting tools are readily available and shared with the concerned implementing partners on time. ·         Collect data from LIPs and consortium members, encode into the database and share with his/her supervisors. ·         Provide onsite mentoring and coaching support to CVs, CCCs, SSWs and LIPs on the use of the tools developed to track project progresses, data utilizations and on time reporting. ·         Provide training and technical assistance/ mentoring for the MoWCYA, BoWCYAs and Woreda government offices on utilization of OVC related data and database. ·         Closely work and coordinate with MoWCYA on harmonizing the project database with the national child welfare database. ·         Prepare and apply paper based data collection tools ·         Train the relevant project or partners’ staff on the use of tablet/mobile based data collection tools and supervise the field data collection. ·         Review and ensure the quality of data collected from field (in the area where s/he is assigned) ·         Collaborate work the project Database Office designing electronic data tracking templates and databases applying appropriate computer application software ·         Maintain the database/s developed to track project activities and indicators. ·         Take part in the national database technical working group (TWG). ·         Closely work and collaborate with the project team on the overall MEL implementation (Capacity development, planning, monitoring and evaluation and reporting of the program) ·         Closely work with the FHI 360 MEL team on MEL aspects of the organization as appropriate