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We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

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Role Purpose

The post holder is responsible for the deliveries of results in line with approved program plans and objectives and assists the implementation of the project at the PA level and contribute towards achieving the country program goal of improved protection mechanisms and community practices against harmful traditions and violence against children, and promotion of adolescent sexual reproductive health rights. Plan Ethiopia has put in place a CP policy that all of its staff must adhere to and sign.

Dimensions Of The Role

• The post holder is responsible for assisting in implementation and monitoring while ensuring quality program delivery of the overall the project as per expectations and requirements, and child protection country program activities.  She/he ensures implementation of M&E systems for the project at the Program Area level.  Key components of the position also include assisting in the development of strategic thematic planning, supporting the development of an M&E Plan, and strengthening partnerships for data collection and mainstreaming of child centered community development.

Accountabilities and Main Work Activities

Project design, implementation and management support

• Participates and assists with project management team (PMT) on the development of overall project implementation strategy, systems, approaches, tools, and materials.
• S/he provides inputs to ensure that child protection and gender equality perspectives in all planned strategies and activities of the project are reflected.
• S/he will collaborate with PMT to ensure that all project activities promote gender transformative and positive change for girls and child protection perspectives as Plan International GE and CP strategies.
• Supports the PMT to manage the implementation of the project ensuring that technical quality and standards are considered and respected during project(s) implementation periods.
• Supports the Program Manager in organizing regular project coordination meetings with project management team.
• Supports and assists the PMT in anticipation and mitigation of risks and trouble-shoot any unforeseen challenges during the project implementation period.
• Proactively supports the PMT in regular update the work plan, output tracker, PMF and other documents relevant for effective project management.
• Provides regular and timely updates on project progress and challenges to supervisor and other project team members

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

• Manage Monitoring and Evaluation Framework  
• Under leadership of the M&E Specialist, s/he will keenly participate and contribute for development of Project outputs and outcomes monitoring and evaluation (PMP) plan, including developing and overseeing the project’s Performance Measurement Framework (PMF), Data Flow (DF) and detailed M&E Plan
• Ensure alignment between Project Logic Model and PMF, and between PMPs and data collection tools and protocols
• Facilitate field-level participatory validation of PMF and M&E Plan
• Tool development and data collection methodology      
• Ensure the implementation of practical data collection forms to track activities, outputs and outcomes, including validation and translation (if applicable).
• Support the standardization of data collection tools based on best practices
• Support the development of survey and interview protocols and guidelines
• Ensure all implementation activities and transactions have an associated data collection form
• Field test all questionnaires and facilitate debriefing session
• Establish adequate survey clusters, create accurate sample sizes and encourage random sampling
• Data collection       
• Train enumerators/staff on data collection tools and protocols
• Build staff skills in gender-sensitive facilitation
• Create protocol for survey supervisors, including cross-checking checklist and mechanism
• Oversee and conduct data collection by enumerators and program staff
• Facilitated Focus Group discussion and collect case studies
• Liaise with officials to obtain SRHR and CP related secondary data
• Compile Primary and Secondary data generated by Field staff, enumerators and secondary sources
• Carry out random spot-checks on data collection to ensure quality and consistency of data
• Ensure that data collectors follow protocols and quality controls
• Early identification of anomalies or outliers and suggest corrective actions
• Management Information System (MIS) and Reporting   
• Support the design of project Database and automated tablet-based MIS
• Overall management of the MIS at the PA level, ensuring completeness and accuracy of data and automatic reports
• Assess and correct data entry issues, including missing values, double entry and anomalies
• Undertakes regular field visits to provide technical guidance and supervision as well as regularly monitor the progress of project outputs and activities as per plan
• Generate and interpret summary tables and provide reports and recommendation to management
• Include data interpretation and discussion during project monthly meetings
• Support the organization of feedback workshops to validate data and discuss implications
• Support the project team members in lessons learned documentation, sharing and reflection for project planning and decision making.
• Draft reports on key indicators for project stakeholders and communities
• Support the development of external knowledge sharing strategies
• Coordinate input to government agencies and research institutes
• Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

Qualifications And Experience Requirements

Qualifications/ experience essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Sociology, Social Work or Psychology with at least 3 + years relevant experience of which at least two years’ experience with NGOs.
• Demonstrated experience in the management of gender equality and child protection focused projects.
• Practical experiences working in development projects, specifically implementing and managing systems.
• Knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Knowledge of effective participatory training facilitation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research systems and processes.
• Strong capacity to develop and implement comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plans, including data collection tools/instruments and quality assurance protocols
• Ability to coordinate large data collection processes and manage large datasets, including processing, verification, analysis, interpretation and presentation of gender-sensitive quantitative and qualitative data
• Experience working with national/provincial/district level data sources, including government statistical sources and SRHR indicators
• Experience and skills to lead technical capacity building in monitoring and evaluation amongst staff and partners
• Strong facilitation skills to lead review/reflection meetings with the project team, partners and other stakeholders and promote the use of M&E data
• Strong computer literacy skills, including experience with spreadsheet, database and statistical software
• Strong analytical and written communication skills to contribute to the development of high-quality, accurate and timely reports
• Strong collaboration skills to work successfully with internal and external partners

 Desirable

• Experience with the use of technology for data collection
• Knowledge of the Child Protection and adolescent sexual reproductive health sectors
• In-depth knowledge of child protection and gender mainstreaming and child centred community development program.

Source: https://jobs.plan-international.org/job/Different-Locations-MEAL-Officer-Roster/825685101/