SoCha MEL Assistant Jobs in Kenya
SoCha MEL Assistant Jobs in Kenya
Position Background: MSP seeks highly motivated Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Assistants to support USAID/KEA development objective (DO) working groups (teams) to develop plans for monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities which will form the basis for the mission’s performance management plan.
MEL Assistants will be assigned to specific DO teams at the mission and support that specific team while ensuring cross-team collaboration and communication throughout the process.
MEL Assistants will be led by the MEL Advisor for the same task and collaborate with other USAID and MSP staff.
MEL Assistants must apply their knowledge of USAID technical areas, background in MEL, and skills in coordination and documentation to ensure their respective DO team assignments and the overall PMP are completed on time with quality and accuracy.
Further, MEL Assistant should ensure ideas and content created for and adopted in the PMP reflect the decisions of their respective teams, relevant technical and support offices, and the mission leadership.
MEL Assistants will look to the MEL Advisor for guidance on USAID automated directives and policy but will also work with the USAID/KEA Strategic Planning and Analysis office, MEL working group, and MSP to ensure coherence and alignment to the strategic choices in the 2020-2025 CDCS.
MEL Assistants’ Responsibilities:
Support one or two DO/project teams and MEL Specialists to develop
monitoring,
evaluation, and
CLA plans.
Coordinate working sessions and other meetings (scheduling), support meeting preparation, including technology support,
Capture detailed notes, ideas, accurate decision-points, and discussions with mission colleagues, and
Provide timely follow-up communications.
Knowledge management: Support Mission with just-in-time information sharing so that CDCS, PMP, MEL, and related documentation can inform performance management planning.
Compile and organize written content from mission colleagues for monitoring, evaluation, and CLA plans. Perform preliminary error checking. Align formatting.
File management: Track changes and maintain accurate logs of
PMP documents, version control.
Support MEL Specialists to generate performance indicator reference sheets and context indicator reference sheets.
Conduct background research on indicators, monitoring methods, evaluations, etc.
Track and communicate timelines and milestones against the overall PMP workplan and within individual working groups. Communicate timelines and milestones to MEL Specialists, MEL Advisor, MSP, and USAID/KEA.
Other duties, as assigned by USAID or MSP.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in related field
1+ year of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning
Experience coordinating with various stakeholders on tasks and timelines
Ability to take accurate notes with excellent attention to detail
Excellent oral and written English communication skills
Team collaboration:
Four MEL Assistants, four MEL Specialists, and one MEL Advisor will comprise the team. The MEL Advisor will lead with the consultant team and assign responsibilities to each team member which are aligned to the responsibilities in their respective SOWs and DO working groups. Team members will be jointly responsible for the final deliverables and individually responsible for their specific tasks and level of effort.
Place of performance: Nairobi, Kenya, and Remote/Teleworking
Period of performance: October 26, 2020 – January 31, 2021 unless extended by a modification to the agreement or terminated in accordance with SoCha LLC policy and Kenya law.
Level of Effort (LOE): • 75 days LOE
How to Apply
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