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Job Overview/Summary:
The Regional Measurement Action Coordinator will provide technical and managerial leadership for the IRC’s regional measurement efforts. Those efforts including monitoring, learning, and - above all - making decisions and taking action based on data.
This senior position requires coordinating measurement activities across countries in the Syria response region - including providing support to in-country M&E staff - and working with country teams to ensure that data are of high quality and used effectively for decision making. The Coordinator will work in partnership with country directors, deputy directors of programs, and country staff responsible for M&E.
The main objectives of the position are to provide monitoring technical assistance to country programs and to lead the roll-out and uptake of global and regional M&E-related initiatives. The Coordinator will be part of a small regional M&E Unit.
Major Responsibilities:
• Development, implementation, and updating of measurement priorities for the region that ensures technically sound and consistent approaches to:
o Routine monitoring of program activities
o Assessments of beneficiary needs
o Data collection, including digital data collection where feasible
o Data storage and secure accessibility of data by project staff and country/regional management
• Work with country teams to implement the measurement priorities, with a focus on:
o Coordinated monitoring of project activities, ensuring that activities are carried out or as planned or adjusted/adapted as needed
o Coordinated assessments of beneficiary needs, ensuring that tools and methodologies are appropriate, so that results are actionable and easily communicated
o Contributing to an organizational culture shift from a focus on data being primarily for donor reporting to using data for decision making and action
• Work with Monitoring for Action (MfA) team to ensure that country teams are using the right tools and have the proper procedures in place to achieve both collection of high quality data and the effective use of those data, and maintain a regional repository of high quality tools
• Work with technical and country teams to implement the IRC’s program data platform
• Lead development of a program dashboard to provide monthly summaries of key program indicators and assessment results for decision making by country and regional management
• Support country teams in analysis of data, including going beyond simple Excel charts to more sophisticated statistical analysis, and including creative use of GIS
• Support country-level knowledge management efforts and develop and implement regional systems that facilitate the sharing of information across countries in the region and with other IRC regions, specifically focused on use of data and analysis for decision making
• Support country teams in the implementation of beneficiary counting practices according to SRR standards, and manage regional beneficiary count data
• Support country teams in the implementation of beneficiary complaints/feedback and response mechanisms according to established SRR standards, and manage the continual measurement and improvement of practices and standards across the region
• Support country teams in recruitment of M&E staff
• Deputize for the regional head of M&E, as requested
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Head of regional M&E unit
Position directly supervises: None
Indirect Reporting: None
Other Internal and/or external contacts:
Internal: Country program senior management (e.g. M&E coordinators, deputy directors of programs) and implementation (e.g. M&E managers and officers, information management officers, data collectors) staff; Regional office staff (e.g. ICT4P, monitoring and remote management capacity building, partnerships); SRR technical advisors; HQ staff (e.g. MfA coordinator, learning and evidence to action, technical units M&E); other regions’ RMACs
External: Occasional representation of regional MEAL at external forums and with external stakeholders
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2016-05-23 |
| Job Location: | Amman, Jordan |
| Job Role: | Other |
| Company Industry: | Community/Social Services/and Nonprofit |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Executive/Director |
| Degree: | Bachelor's degree |
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