MEL Assistant

The M&E Assistant will fulfill MEL responsibilities including, but not limited to assessment monitoring (Shadow visits), participatory monitoring

activities, general satisfaction monitoring (exit interviews), and change monitoring (pre/post testing and assessments) in order to ensure high-quality

of assistance/services and continual learning.

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Oversees the monitoring activities and tracking of indicators for up to 3 projects to ensure high quality of assistance/services and continual learning.
• Supports the development of data collection methodology and tools to ensure detailed and accurate data.
• Conducts participatory monitoring activities using a varied suite of tools (assessment monitoring (Shadow visits), participatory monitoring activities, general satisfaction monitoring (exit interviews), and change monitoring (pre/post testing and assessments) in order to ensure high quality of assistance/services and continual learning) with JRF beneficiaries to get information and feedback on the quality and relevance of assistance in all areas of intervention.
• Conducts qualitative data collection activities (FGDs, KII), supports data processing (transcribing/ translating), and supports preparing qualitative summaries as well as ensuring the documentation of all necessary data and templates.
• Ensures accurate and high-quality data during the collection, entry, and upload to have an accurate data base.
• Performs the data cleaning and analysis, and keeps the data quality log and the preliminary analysis (using pivot tables) up to date to ensure detailed and accurate data.
•  Regularly undertakes field monitoring visits to the field locations, to ensure the quality implementation, data collection and performance of the partner CBOs.
• Supports the development of data collection methodology and tools, as well as the testing of new tools using Kobo and ensure usability of the tools before launching the data collection activity.
• Support in translating monitoring data to facilitate the analysis process and contributing to final reports.
•  Identifies and refer/report individuals with special needs, protection concerns, and any problems with JRF services to the M&E Manager and relevant program staff, as well as conducting phone call surveys in form of referral scorecards to monitor the quality of referral services provided.
• Ensures timely reporting on monitoring activities in line with work plans and project timelines for internal and external purposes.
• Translates important reports into Arabic, as agreed with the M&E Manager, to ensure bilingual reports if needed.
•  Provides regular verbal and written feedback on field observations and monitoring findings to the M&E Manager and relevant program staff, to follow up on action plan.
• Builds and maintain good working relations and collaboration with staff/ departments, to ensure proper communication of the projects’ results, and concerns, in addition to be updated on the projects’ activities and plan.
• Assists in capturing and feeding into institutional learning by contributing best practices and lessons learned from ongoing M&E activities and/or projects’ activities to ensure the good quality of the outcomes, and preparing a lessons learned report per project under his/her responsibility to be communicated with the project’s stakeholders.
• To follow up on the regular data collection through implementing partners (CBOs) and ensure quality of the data by random verifications and validations in coordination with the program staff.

Data Management:

•  Performs data quality checks on the data entered by the program staff into the JRF Information Management System; to ensure accurate and proper documentation.
• Cross-checking the project fact sheets prepared by the IM Senior Officer, and highlighting any concerns in the quality of data, reporting, or percentage achievement against the project’s outputs to ensure working according to the plan.
• Ensures up-to-date work plans, and proper tracking of M&E activities, beneficiaries, and follow-ups; to ensure high quality of assistance/services and continual learning.
• Ensures documentation of all project documents including but not limited to log-frames, MEPs, trackers, data analysis sheets, quality logs, and draft and final reports, by uploading them into the Shared Folder as agreed with the M&E Manager to ensure data preservation.