Plan International
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Skill Required: Monitoring and Evaluation
Apply By: 15-08-2022
Plan International is a rights based and girls focused organization that strive for a just world that advances children's rights and equality for girls. We motivate our people and partners to: empower children, young people and communities to make vital changes that tackle the root causes of discrimination against girls, exclusion and vulnerability; drive change in practice and policy at local, national and global levels through our reach, experience and knowledge of the realities children especially girls face.
Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), in partnership with Plan International (Plan) and Resonance Global (Resonance) form a uniquely qualified, complementary partnership to implement USAID’s Positive, Educated, Employed, and Resilient Youth Activity (PEER). The goal of project is to increase the economic self-reliance and resiliency of Liberian youth in targeted areas. Five principles will guide our program: systems strengthening; private sector engagement; positive youth development; innovation; and inclusion. PEER will provide over 21,000 young people with the skills, experience, support and relationships to productively engage with their local economies. In the timeframe of the project, PEER will assist nearly 8,000 youth to transition to employment or start an enterprise. In order to reach scale and sustainability, the project will engage youth through all system’s actors, including market actors (employers and financial service providers), youth serving local organizations; and education actors (formal TVET, universities and community colleges). The project will build the capacity and bolster the resilience of local youth-serving organizations and youth themselves to adapt to diverse challenges and create flexible yet holistic approaches to ensuring a future. Plan International will provide Leadership for VSLA activities; technical assistance for gender and social inclusion strategies; training for Youth Health Volunteers and support for strategies to link youth to health services.
The M&E Officer under the technical supervision of the MERL Manager will lead all monitoring and evaluation functions of the project in his/her assigned location. This will include leading on in all data collections, analysis, and learning activities to help ensure accountability and efficiency. S/he will provide technical field support to project staff, partners and other beneficiaries as its relates to the project tracking. M&E Officer will work closely with Program teams to assess field conditions, support capacity building initiatives, and facilitate the collection of quality data under the supervision of the MERL Manager. S/he may be assigned to focus on supporting one or more specific projects activities as BE assigned by the MErl Manager.
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The M&E Officer is the first line staff who can be trusted to produce quality monitoring and evaluation information relating to the project specific and other roles and responsibilities that maybe assign. It is expected that the staff will execute these functions by relating to others in the team, supervisors, senior management and donors. It is expected that the M&E Officer will exercise maximum trust and honesty in conducting the affairs of this project and other others assign. H/she will also represent Plan International.
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