Contract Type: Full-time
Location: Cairo, Egypt
About Etijah
Youth and Development Consultancy Institute – Etijah is a non-profit organization specializing in developing, improving, and disseminating development methodologies in youth and community development.
Based in Cairo, Etijah’s primary concern is to create and tailor up-to-date and high-quality development methodologies, research tools, applicable practices of youth development, and training delivery models, to be able to qualify youth by providing them with the skills, know-how, and aptitudes, as well as contribute to building the capacity of governmental and non-governmental youth-serving organizations. Our role is to provide youth with direct access to unconditional participation by providing practical tools and models for developing community-wide initiatives.
Project Background
Etijah Education and Scholarships Program aims at empowering students from disadvantaged communities to become future leaders through a comprehensive learning approach. Currently, the program actively manages and implements a diverse range of educational projects and scholarships, benefiting students of all ages. Collaborating with esteemed partners, the program adopts a holistic approach to nurture students’ skills across different areas. By fostering a well-rounded educational experience, the program equips students with the tools necessary for success, implementing a rich blend of activities both on-ground and online with the support of different local and international donors.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the MEAL manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work on a range of projects including but not limited to:
- Developing project-level Theories of Change, Results Frameworks, and related MEAL system tools and components.
- Supervise monitoring and evaluation initiatives for assigned programs including monitoring data quality and tracking the progress of the program.
- Coordinate the needs assessments and baseline surveys/data collection.
- Maintain the performance of existing management information systems and help identify potential modifications or resources.
- Work closely in the verification process with high-quality performance
- Prepare performance monitoring plans, including developing and defining program indicators and sources of data, as well as annual reports and other program documents.
- Design, review and test monitoring and evaluation tools for reporting formats and data collection.
- Assist in developing and strengthening monitoring and evaluation procedures and methods for the assigned programs.
- Establish constant communication with all channels to ensure awareness of updates about program changes and progress, support management in strategies and increase program performances and results.
- Periodically follow up on program performances and update the identified key indicators documents with achievements.
- Monitor identified key performance indicators against actual achievements.
- Coordinate the implementation of periodic feedback procedures for the programs.
- Organize, document and capture program progress properly.
- Create and implement program cycle evaluation reports.
- Designing and Implementation of quantitative and qualitative data collection such as surveys, focus group discussion, one to one interview…
- Prepare periodical (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually) quantitative and qualitative reports.
- Promoting knowledge management and collaborative learning processes at the project, program and institutional levels, generate strong evidence for projects and programmatic learning that drive corrective actions and decision-making.
- Support the MEAL Manager in departmental and organizational initiatives.
- Provide technical support into MEAL operation manuals to ensure that they are complete, up-to-date, high quality, and contain tools, data flow maps, and analysis plans that address all information needed for program quality and donor reporting.
- Facilitate learning-to-action events and reflection sessions to systematically analyze data for programmatic use, and to document and incorporate lessons learned into program design and implementation.
Required Skills and Experience (Qualifications)
- Degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Statistics, Management, or other related fields.
- 5 to 7 years in the development field.
- At least 4 years of working experience in MEAL or other related fields.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.
- Excellent reporting skills.
- Experience in database development/management, Excel, and skills in analyzing, interpreting and communicating information to various stakeholders
- Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments and surveys (including sound understanding of sampling issues)
- Proven problem-solving skills and ability to provide practical solutions to operational challenges.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse teams while maintaining a high level of focus and attention to details.
- Flexibility to work both in a team and indepedantly.
- Cultural sensitivity, patience, and flexibility.
- Demonstrated personal accountability and driven to serve.
- Ability to frequently travel to the governorates covered by the projects.
Etijah is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from qualified candidates, including those with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.
How to apply
Interested applicant should submit their application, including their CV and Cover letter, following this link before Monday, May 20th, 2024 following this link
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