SayPro Regional MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) Management

• Review and refine the existing list of indicators and develop new indicators as needed to ensure that project is collecting data that are most relevant, actionable, and meaningful to track progress as well as generate knowledge and learning
• Identify/develop the most suitable and standardized data collections tools, methodologies, and guidelines in collaboration with M&E and project team members
• Provide technical assistance and strategic guidance to country-level monitoring teams to conduct regular (monthly and quarterly) and quality monitoring and reporting as per the project plan
• Operationalize a digital monitoring system to ensure timely data collection, compilation, and reporting on the project’s progress/achievements against targets (activities, outputs, outcomes)
• In addition to quantitative monitoring to track progress, set up a quality monitoring system to monitor
• Setting up a digital database/participants’ profile and producing the most accurate count/estimation of total project coverage/reach by various categories and sub-categories as per the need of the project and organization.
• Collect, compile, verify and analyze country-level narrative monitoring and MIS reports and generate organizational-level reports to be used by the management team, communication team, and board members
• Review country-level monthly and quarterly monitoring reports, give necessary feedback and support them to address/incorporate those
• Lead the process of data collection, data quality assurance, analysis (quantitative and qualitative) using various statistical packages and reporting (monthly, quarterly or annual reports) as per the need of the internal (such as project and BI management team members) and external (donors, partners, govt, etc) audiences
• Produce/generate global/central level monitoring reports by collating/compiling reports produced by country monitoring teams
• Produce visual diagrams (infographic, various charts, graphs, etc) to share and disseminate monitoring findings and learning with project implementation and management team members at various levels of the organizations
• Check and verify the facts and figures of donor reports produced by project teams and ensure accuracy and quality before submission
• Contribute to developing new project/program design, planning, and fundraising by sharing knowledge and learning from existing projects/programs

Contribution to Program Design and Implementation

• Contribute to developing an M&E plan for the new projects/interventions under the AIM project
• Reviewing and adjusting existing M&E plan including outcomes and indicators to ensure that those are SMART and aligned with donor priority.
• Ensure timely and regular sharing of monitoring findings with the program team (managers and supervisors at different levels) to support adaptive management and data-driven decision making
• Work with the program management team and decision-makers to ensure that monitoring findings are taken into consideration for reviewing and adjusting (if necessary) program design and implementation strategies to achieve better outcomes and impact
• Work closely with BI research team to develop evaluation plans, support commissioning/hiring external consultants, review evaluation design including tools and methodologies, and review and give inputs to draft reports before finalization.

Others (Safeguarding):

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do so.