Greece: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Manager (National contract, EU citizens only)

SCOPE OF WORK: The M&E Manager is a new position within the Greece country program, created to develop, manage, and strengthen M&E efforts. The M&E Manager will support the Regional Program Coordinator in ensuring that the IRC Greece program has the flexibility to respond appropriately to a rapidly changing context while ensuring program quality, effectiveness and responsiveness in line with humanitarian standards, as well as compliance with contractual obligations and other internal standards. The M&E Manager will establish a robust monitoring system that facilitates both accountability and learning and includes data collection, analysis, learning reflection and timely action-taking. The M&E Manager will work closely with IRC staff and partners to develop appropriate accountability and learning mechanisms.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

M&E Strategy and Design:

· Support the Program and Technical Coordinators to design evidence-based programming and M&E systems that align with the country, regional and global objectives, are relevant to the context, responsive to assessed needs, are measurable and are in compliance with country grant requirements;

· Ensure systems established meet standards as set out in IRC’s global Monitoring for Action (MfA) initiative for improving monitoring practice and use of data within the organization;

· Ensure that all relevant stakeholders have timely access to appropriate information and evidence;

· Undertake continuous assessment of M&E requirements, and based on these, work closely with program coordinators to facilitate decision-making for real time program adaptation;

· Work closely with the Region on the design and development of appropriate and technology-driven systems and tools, at the assessment, monitoring, and evaluations stages of the program cycle

· Ensure that program log frames are realistic, supported by the M&E systems and processes, consistent with the IRC’s library of core outcomes and indicators and, all together, signal progress towards SAP implementation.

Monitoring:

· Provide technical assistance in monitoring program progress including the design of appropriate data collection tools that can track progress and inform learning, data management and analysis;

· Support the program teams in preparing and reviewing M&E tools, calendars and drawing links and efficiency gains between them, as well as in guiding data collection and analysis as required;

· Support Program and Technical Coordinators in the design (and implementation) of assessments, gender analysis, stakeholder analysis, beneficiary targeting and other pre-program data collection and analysis;

· Contribute to donor proposals and reports, through quality analysis and interpretation of data, as well as review of logframes/results frameworks;

· Provide technical assistance to sector programs in the development and review of M&E and data analysis plans, including the effective use of data collected;

· Ensure consistency of indicators across all programs as appropriate, maintaining a bank of program indicators;

· Support the program teams with preparation of data for donor reports.

Evaluations

· Work with senior management to identify strategic opportunities for external and internal evaluations, case and impact studies;

· Act as a focal point for internal and external evaluation consultants.

Accountability

· Ensure that IRC meets its internal and external accountability commitments through the development and implementation of accountability mechanisms appropriate for the rapidly evolving context, and including a beneficiary feedback and response mechanism utilized by program teams;

· Work closely with focal points responsibility for championing ICT4P-related activities.

Learning

· Promote an environment of best practice and knowledge sharing between the Molyvos and Mytilini programs.

Capacity Strengthening

· Promote and strengthen the understanding of the importance of M&E within the country team and the use and /or analysis of M&E systems during program design and implementation;

· Conduct frequent field monitoring visits and provide regular feedback to project teams.

Information and Communications Technology

· Act as the IRC focal point for organization-wide M&E-related consolidation and reporting requirements such as IRC’s upcoming global measurement data platform, regional beneficiary counting reports, organizational performance monitoring, annual reports, etc.;

· Support program teams to develop strong project databases, tracking, record keeping and filing methodologies for all activities;

· Maximize the value and utility of ICT related M&E initiatives.

Key Working Relationships:

Line management: Regional Program Coordinator

Working closely with: program, communications, grants and field coordination colleagues

Professional Skills:

· Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or other relevant field;

· Minimum 3 years’ experience in developing managing M&E processes and a sound technical understanding of contemporary M&E principles, methods and approaches;

· Experience in the development or humanitarian sector, preferably in an INGO;

· Strong measurement, analytical, systematic-thinking, planning and organizational skills;

· Demonstrated experience and excellent skills developing qualitative and quantitative data collection tools;

· Demonstrated experience and excellent skills developing logical/results frameworks, indicators and other key M&E tools;

· Demonstrated experience and excellent skills in data/information management and analysis, with experience using databases and software applications;

· Demonstrated experience and capacity in conducting field-level data collection and data entry;

· Experience in capacity building and team building;

· English fluency, both verbal and written, required; Greek, Arabic or Farsi language skills an advantage.

REQUIREMENTS:

· Strong written and oral communication skills;

· Excellent inter-personal skills, demonstrating diplomacy and tact;

· Promotes teamwork and is able to work with a variety of people in a multicultural environment;

· Capable of influencing and motivating individuals that are not under direct line management;

· Capable of applying skills and knowledge in a range of capacities, including direct implementation, remote management, training and the transfer of technical knowledge and skills to others;

· Flexible and able to handle pressure;

· Values learning and takes a strong interest in new developments in the field of MEAL.

Please submit your CV at IRCGreece.Jobs@rescue.org until March 4th.